On 25/02/2019 23:00, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:49:21 -0000, newshound
wrote:

On 25/02/2019 20:08, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 25/02/2019 19:02, Commander Kinsey wrote:
I just bought a new socket set (for car repairs) as I lost my last
one. Half the bits are imperial!* What the hell are they selling those
for? My first car was made in 1988, and even that was metric for
goodness sake.* I guess half of it's going on freecycle for vintage
car owners.

Still plenty of new stuff being sold using imperial. New rotary lawn
mower - the bolt that holds the blade on has a 9/16 inch head.
I expect if it has a Briggs and Stratten (USA) engine it will be all
imperial.

+1, struggling today with a strange mixture of metric and imperial on my
American ATV (with a Japanese engine, but badged Caterpillar).

I can understand American **** using imperial.* Although I'm surprised
it's also got metric on the same device!

Well be surprised, but that is what it has. At least the imperial is AF
and not good old fashioned BSF and BSW. There are some fairly close
matches between AF and metric.

I still have a half inch socket set with both imperial and AF, and I was
very glad of it today.