Why I like the metric system :)

A great Orange County Choppers episode

Measurement Confusion

 

Yeah...but those monkeys would NEVER figure out how to get from cm to mm or the other way around!! Good grief , he can't even get the same measurement 2 times in a row...lol

 

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why the rest of the world, scientists, and even the US Military use the metric system -- to avoid conversations (and confusion) just like that.
Wow...

 

Yeah, even a foot is not a foot. Look up U.S. Survey Foot vs International Foot.

How is there an international foot if we're the only one's who use it?

 

Some of my Nam-era buddies still use 'clicks' as a measure of distance. The US toyed with metric conversion in the mid-70's and was taught to us in school. I found it easy since everything was in multiples of 10's, 100's, and 1000's making measurements for both volume and distance easy to calculate.
Now I just remember which sae and metric sizes are equivalent, such as 8mm and 5/16", 1/2" is a tight 13mm, -40c is -40f, etc.
Funny thing is our high school metal shop instructor made certain that we were proficient in the use of a micrometer, and vernier calipers, and tested us on each.

 

Not the best advert in the world for OCC? In the UK the metric system was adopted in th early '70s but we strill cling lovigly to miles and gallons!

 

All HAIL the metric system! If only it had stuck when we tried it in the 70's... I'm still pushing for it.

 

There was a fancy new stretch of highway built in DE not too long ago and it had metric distances on the signs. They took them down shortly after it opened.

 

In arizona 10 years ago ADOT was double stationing all the centerlines on the engineering plans for the highways. One in english, one in metric.

 

Want to really enjoy the Metric System, ...

Hang a room full of framed pictures.
Not needing to divide "Fractions" ... makes the place look like an Art Gallery in just a few minutes.

 

We've had the metric system for many years now and two things that have never changed are height and weight which everyone still uses feet and inches and pounds, even my kids that were never taught that.

 

Then why is it - - world-wide, that tires and rims are 17 INCH, 20 INCH, 14 INCH, from Toyota, Volkswagen, Ferrari, Yamaha, Cheng-Shin, Pirelli, ETC.

Don't tell me the Dayton, Ohio Mafia is that powerful !! :lol:

(I know, Michelin and Ford tried metric tire sizes in 1982 = fail.)

 

oh, i never even thought how weird it was that everyone does inch rims and mm tire width

 

That was funny

 

nobody with half a brain that DOES use standard (inch) measurements uses fractions smaller than a quarter inch. An eight inch is "a buck twenty five" 3/8 is "three seventy five"
.251" is "quarter inch over" or "quarter inch slip"
.249 is "quarter under" or "quarter press fit"
1/64th is "fifteen and a half thou"
1mm is "thirty nine and a half thou"
Drill sizes are fractional but there are also metric drills and letter sizes some of which are identical to some fraction and metric drills. The letter sizes are various ones commonly used for specific applications such as THE size to drill for then tapping a given thread. The names could just as easily be wholly arbitrary so long as they were consistent.
need I go on?

The fractional system has a certain elegance in that it is analogous to binary just "upside down". The more precision necessary the larger the denominator in the fraction. I get a kick out of seeing antique machine tools (mill and lathe) with 128ths and 256ths labeled on the dials rather than thousandths and tenths of thous. Confusing? yes. That's why only OCchopper 'tards use them anymore. In summary, inch sizes ARE used base ten.

 

Pressure / volume calculations are SO much easier when 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram and has a mass of 1000 cubic centimetres.
Temperature calibrations are a cinch when water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

And it's a lot safer when "doing the ton" is only 100 km/hr!

That"s my 2 shillings worth

 

Still trying to figure out what this post is sayin'.

Just sayin'

Loren

 

Pretty sure he meant it was much easier measuring all his various frame sizes and mounting locations in metric. Then he was able to divide/add whole and decimal numbers instead of a bunch of fractions while trying to get everything to line up PERFECT. Good ideal. I'll try that next time

 

.1 is 1/10. Still a fraction just read differently.

 

We had a flight attendant from the U.K. who said she weighed nine stone. Looked to me like she was around 125lbs, close enough. Just curious if the U.K is ever going to adopt Euros instead of GBP? We have adopted some British terms in recent months in aviation like line up and wait, instead of position and hold.