Mark Wrathall wrote:

Thomas wrote:

....inches - inches??
Why is a Japanese-Engine Fanatic not fluent with metric, as that's

what

the

Japs use too?:))
How ever there is hope - I understand even Boeing is doing its

airliners

in

metric, ....or not?

Just to pick a little more .....3 grains to the inch, 12 inches to

the

foot,

3 feet to the yard, 2 yards to the fathom, 1 SM is 5280ft .....it

makes

sense!!
10 mm to the cm, 10 cm to the dm, 10dm to the meter, 1000 m to the
km........ how does that work???

I don't want to start with using fractions when using a caliper or

wrench

sizes or drill bit sizes ..........:))

Thomas J. (metric by logic...)

Mark wrote,

Don't bother Thomas, we've tried to educate Paul on the metric system

before

:)

By the way, Boeing is all Imperial. The US aviation industry is probably
still the most  consistantly non-metric (although GE designs in Metric,

and

then bolts it all together with imperial fasteners).

Mark Wrathall.

"educate"? wow that is a real slam Mark :)

The metric system is fine for linear dimensions until you get into stupid

things

like Pascal, Hertz and Newton. The fact of the matter is the English

invented physics

and they got it right.

Paul Lamar

Isn't the Inch an italian measure?

Mark

 
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