"Fredxx" wrote in message
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On 12/01/2019 03:12, Rod Speed wrote:


"Fredxx" wrote in message
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On 12/01/2019 01:41, Rod Speed wrote:


"Fredxx" wrote in message
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On 10/01/2019 21:23, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:08:43 +0000, ARW wrote:

On 10/01/2019 19:55, T i m wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:15:24 +0000, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 10/01/19 19:10, ARW wrote:
Third year apprentice (one of the best we have had) was having
trouble putting the meter tails into the mains isolator on some
new
builds.

He was having difficulty tightening up the hex screws.

One answer in the office was "You have a **** set of Allen keys"

In his defence he replied "They are brand new I only got them on
Saturday and I paid for the most expensive of the two pairs
available
as I don't want **** tools"

Anyone care to guess what went wrong:-)?

Imperial vs metric?

+1


Indeed.

But at least he came in and said he had a problem. And the problem
is
now sorted.

Obviously never heard of the word imperial before and was amazed at
the
markings on the tool that he had never noticed.

Oh dear, how will he cope when £sd and feet inches and roods come
back ?

Why should they come back? If a reference to Brexit; decimalisation
was before entry into the EEC and even countries like the USA are
steadily moving towards metrification and SI units.

Not really with the units the general public uses. And they dont have
much in the way of the weirder ones like roods, perches, bushels,
furlongs etc. Really just grains with ammunition and bullets etc.

Furlongs? I thought everyone knew you get 10 cricket pitches in a
furlong.

They dont have cricket pitches, stupid.

You probably don't, however this is a UK group and we do.

Pity that post is discussing what the USA does units wise.

What a plonker.

Your sig is sposed to have a line with just -- on it in front of it,
****wit.