"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

| There are absolutely no valid reasons NOT to use metric. There are
| plenty of people afraid of change. Use it steady for a few days
| and you'll wonder why we did not change decades ago. We use it for
| our money, we use it for some beverages.

I'd like to agree, but can't. I came up with a gizmo (photos at link
below) that allows ShopBot users to zero all three axes to a jig or
workpiece in less than a minute and a bunch of guys wanted 'em for
their shops. The first customer was in Sweden so I figured it'd be
cool to go metric...

Ok - I needed aluminum bar stock at _least_ 3/8" thick (1/2" would be
better) and went to the catalog. No metric stock available - so
ordered 1/2" x 6" x 72". Shrug.

The problems you encountered were due to mixing. Metric stock is readily
available outside the US and some places here but not very plentiful. If we
made the switch universally, your problem would not exist. You made a good
point as to why we should change to be compatible in a world economy.

In my case, I can't buy US made machines for our industry so everything is
metric. Simple to work with.
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Ed
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