Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

| 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.

"Available outside the US" doesn't do much for me here in Iowa. :-(

If we made the switch universally, I'd have to replace more stuff in
my shop than I'd be comfortable with - and I don't even want to think
about reworking all my drawings, product specifications, part program
software, and bills of materials. Even for a small operation like
mine, it'd be difficult and expensive.

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

Hmm. [ light bulb just went on ] I could solve all my difficulties by
outsourcing everything to some place where everything is metric.
Simple indeed. eg

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/