Metric System...long overdue.
Many American industries have been working with the metric system. How long until the rest of the country sees the light? Would you rather switch or stick?
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Greetings all,
During my military carreer we used both systems, depending on which equipment and if it was a "NATO" standard or not.
I think to switch to one system or another would cause un-necessary expense to manufacturing and repair facilities. Since my retirement, I have worked in a shipyard. Mostly all of our mills, lathes and drill presses were manufactured in the 40's and 50's and still operate fine. We have one mill from the 30's. anyway all of the tooling is in "SAE" for these machines.
No need to go thru the hassle and expense of doing away with one of the measuring standards. Most of us that work in this field already know both systems anyway, so converting is not that hard of a task.
Machinist Mate 1st Class, United States Navy (Retired)0 -
In the US military we ships pounds and tons of cargo and we measure their size by inches and feet.
We also measure munitions by pounds.
When we pump fuel into aircraft we measure gallons and pounds.
We measure vehicle engine sizes by cubic inches.
The only thing we have that's metric in our military is that stupid 5.56mm piece of crap rifle that the Air Force dragged the country onto.
Somebody find the name of that Air Force General so I can make sure I put "pee on his gravesite" part of my 'before I die to do list'.[}:)]0 -
IS THAT CHEESE[:p]
quote:Originally posted by SuburbanNoize
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
I'd like a kilo of pecans and 100 milligrams of Lebanese please.
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If God had meant for you to use the Metric system, your foot would be a meter long. 0 -
It isn't broke, don't fix it.
Standard measurement has worked for us just fine and I could give a rat's pazinga what the rest of the world is doing.0 -
quote:Originally posted by ObiWan
The only thing we have that's metric in our military is that stupid 5.56mm piece of crap rifle that the Air Force dragged the country onto.
Forget about the 9mm?
quote:Originally posted by ObiWan
ebody find the name of that Air Force General so I can make sure I put "pee on his gravesite" part of my 'before I die to do list'.[}:)]
If I'm not mistaken, the General was Curtis LeMay0 -
AHHHHH another metric Piece of Crap!.....9mm[xx(] 0 -
Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I never learned degrees latitude/longitude and all that, but MGRS is extremely simple to learn. For those of you who don't know, it's a metric grid laid across pretty much anywhere there's dirt (not used on the water). A grid square is one square kilometer. an example grid coordinate would be 36S LT 44569 22337. That is a "ten digit grid" and would get you within 1 meter of your target. a four digit grid (36S LT 44 22) is one square kilometer. It gets fun where there's a seam in the grid (allowing for the curvature of the earth). 0 -
Official system is metric here but
I still use imperial units.
A 2x 4 is still a 2x4 even though it is 1 1/2 by 3 1/20 -
typical europeans....give them a meter, they take a kilometer.[:p] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by bobski
typical europeans....give them a meter, they take a kilometer.[:p]
Give 'em 2.54 centimeters, they take 1.6 kilometers.
I'd like the 30.48 centimeter long sub, please.
And as we learn from Pulp Fiction, the quarter pounder with cheese would be a Royale with cheese.0 -
As far as a machinist is concerned metric is far, far worse. There are more than 4 differant pitches of threads for every size of bolt.
I say let the rest of the world switch to our system.0 -
another bonus to going metric is, all the eastern europeans will understand your 'new'modern ways & flood you out..........& leave us alone !![;)]
about time you got outa the dark ages [:D] who knows even your cars may improove, with finer tolerances!! [^]0
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