On Sep 12, 10:35*am, FrozenNorth
wrote:
Robatoy wrote:
On Sep 11, 2:32 pm, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
On Sep 11, 11:31 am, Luigi Zanasi wrote:

On Sep 11, 11:29 am, Luigi Zanasi wrote:
On Sep 8, 5:32 am, Robatoy wrote:
I now make parts for different people who e-mail/fax me drawings so I
can quote on them.
Some parts are such that I can't tell what they are or what they're
the purpose of them are.
Sometimes I see dimensions as obviously imperial ones, sometime it is
hard to tell, especially when I have NO clue what these parts are.
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass what system is used as I work in
both metric and imperial.
But what seems to be the reason for the US hold-out to stay with an
archaic system?
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9974/metricmap.jpg
XXICVIII
That should have been CCXCVIII, and it's now CCXCIX.
Why bother changing system?
L.
CCC. Do you get to buy me a ticket to TO or Windsor or Sarnia & a
drink in your favourite watering hole?

Luigi

What does it cost to rent a Beaver and a bush pilot to come and fetch
you from your cabin?

Don't forget the dogsled and the guy that says "mush".

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Froz...

Mebbe he can hitch a ride with one of them there Iceroad truckers?