<< I'm afraid this only matters to us geeky engineer/scientist types, it
 > certainly has nothing to do with the Jerry Springer crowd. I don't think
 > Dubya will be taking this subject to the UN anytime soon.
 >
 > not so sincerely,
 >
 > Monty >>

For sale: Complete Whitworth open end set. Niblick to Mashie, it's all there.
Wire Palladin, Sanfrancisco.

Lynn E. Hanover.

    mostly sincerely ----   :-)

 The idiots in charge of the "conversion" to metric in the US REALLY blew it.
A chance to once and for all clear up the mass vs weight quagmire and what do
these geniuses do?  They repeat the disaster of the past - we now are teaching
kids how to weight things in kilograms!!!!!!   Kilograms are a MASS unit and
the correct FORCE unit is the Newton.   If they had just taught the kids to
know their weight and the weight of "stuff" in Newtons, the whole mass vs weight
confusion would be gone.  Kilograms would have been reserved for mass and
half the work would have been over.

   IDIOTS. NEA-trained fools.  But I was silly to have expected anything
else.   ;-)

I work in both systems all the time.  Prefer the English because I have used
it the
most & longest.  Either works fine and I have several full sets of metric
and inch
tools (home, hangar, cabin - yikes).   However, I lost my left handed metric
Mashie,  perhaps I can borrow Lynn's   ;-)

Bill Freeman
Long EZ builder & pilot
BSME, MSME
EAA Technical Counselor

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