Mike Dobony wrote:

Autos need metric (with a few exceptions) and everything else of any size
uses SAE, so they do sell both. My auto set in metric is growing.


I just use Metrinch http://www.mitools.com/combination/0076.php being my
current carry in the Land-Rover set!

I wrote a piece for an American engineering publication on the American
companies loosing trade as a result of sticking with 'English' imperial
and wierd American number threads, so being in England the advantage
of metric interchangability and easy calc. isn't lost on me!