Here in South Africa we always had the imperial system till somewhere in the
middle sixties and before that we changed from pounds to "decimal" Rand and
cents.
It was met with some resistance but soon everybody got used to it.
As I have a British lathe and milling machine in my garage /workshop, and is
part time building a model steam train from imperial plans,
I can switch between metric and imperial quite easily. Most eletronic callipers
and micrometers
have a little mode button to measure in both systems.
73
Raoul ZS1REC
>I'm an EE and I work in my own machine shop in my (new) retirement. I work in
>Imperial units because I THINK in Imperial units - it's what I learned as a
>wee bairn. I KNOW what an inch and a foot are, instinctively, and although
>I have no problem working in metric, I prefer not to because the units are
>non-instinctive - to ME. I care not a whit if metric calculations are
>faster or somehow superior; I don't think in metric - period.
73,
geo - n4ua
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