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opcn said:
And when your hull experiences some corrosion will it still be 4mm?

Even in metric countries with all metric hardware there will always be odd numbers. Is your bolt shank always going to be a nice round number of millimeters in thickness? And how about the cross sectional area?

Heck, what about shop made parts. If you take too aggressive of a cut on your 12mm part on the mill and chowder up the surface and then need to take another pass to clean it up is it still going to be 12mm? What if you need to know 3/4th of 11mm? It's definitely doable but I'll bet it took you a lot longer

In SAE we have a very human centric way of dealing with them, one that is really amerible to marking out with compass and straightedge, and for cases where that's not appropriate we have the exact same decimal system as metric users.

Both systems are arbitrary, both have advantages, both have disadvantages. Neither one has so many advantages over the other that it's ridiculous to use it.
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rule brittania etc etc etc
 
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But i also ride USA Vtwins so i have double the amount of tools..
 
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But i also ride USA Vtwins so i have double the amount of tools..
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Room temperature is 72f. A gallon is 8.34 pounds. 212-72 is 140. 140*8.34=[calculator because I'm actually a little lazy] 1167.6 BTU (a BTU is how much energy it takes to raise 1 pound of water by 1°f). Farrenheit is also based on 0-100, just a different more temperate climate human centered scale less focused on being standardized with 18th century technology.

A Calorie and a Joule are both 'metric units' that measure the same thing, but they aren't a 1 to 1 match. It's like 4.18 Joules to a calorie.
 
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Been watching videos of small, crude metal shops in southern Asia taking steel directly from broken ships and manufacturing stuff. Eg. turning a chain link into a drive axle.
Not sure why talk of Dugg's BSO made me think of this...
 
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When I was in 7th grade the metric system was supposed to be taking over, so we all learned that and not the imperial system.
Then it didn't happen and following a recipe was like "WTF is ounces liquid or weight or how the hell is tablespoon related to a cup.....this blows :mad:"
 
Jim in Halifax

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kent_island_sailor said:
When I was in 7th grade the metric system was supposed to be taking over, so we all learned that and not the imperial system.
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Me too. And we also learned Imperial alongside. But in Canada we 'largely' adopted metric. A kind of schizophrenia set in with my generation. Pounds and ounces largely superseded by grams and kilograms. But if I'm cooking its ounces and cups. Never have got used to weighing flour and sugar. Miles easily replaced by kilometers but I have to do mental arithmetic on my speedometer when driving in the USA. And if I am fabricating something, I almost always use inches and fractions of inches (easy to halve measurements and find mid points). Temperature is never quite satisfactory in metric. While the ends of the scale make sense, the degrees are too damn big in Celsius - my wife likes the house slightly above 20 and I prefer it at around 19. Room temperature in Fahrenheit varies by country between 68 and 72 degrees; lots of graduation for fine adjustment there. Mostly when I talk with the younger generations I switch to metric-speak.
 
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kent_island_sailor said:
When I was in 7th grade the metric system was supposed to be taking over, so we all learned that and not the imperial system.
Then it didn't happen and following a recipe was like "WTF is ounces liquid or weight or how the hell is tablespoon related to a cup.....this blows :mad:"
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We spent a couple years of redundant math classes trying to learn both. Even then we were a couple years behind Japanese students in math and couldn’t spare the time on dry vs fluid ounces.
 
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Lark said:
We spent a couple years of redundant math classes trying to learn both. Even then we were a couple years behind Japanese students in math and couldn’t spare the time on dry vs fluid ounces.
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Incredible. Glad to know.
 
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Jim in Halifax said:
Nothing tedious about it and a refreshing bit of thread drift from the moron in the BSO in my opinion. Perhaps you would prefer a recipe? Which units do you want?
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All serious cooks (the ones with the tall hats) use recipes that list ingredients by weight, usually grams, and not by volume like teaspoons or cups. This came as something of a revelation to me but makes all the sense in the world. On this one point I will concede that the modern world may be a slight improvement over any previous period.

And there's no mistaking that boat, although I understand that all the hot race boats this year have tractor seats at the mast head to give you some place to sit while you think. Metal pipe battens are very popular, too. This is just what I've been told.
 
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