Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️In America, the company 3m is known as 9'10“
CR45H 0V3RR1D3@foone a lot of my European buddies love messing with me about this, of which I agree with them wholeheartedly. The problem is, they speak to us about it like we had a choice, like we picked imperial over metric, knowing the latter is more accurate, and that’s just not the case. Even if we stop using imperial today, it would be a generations before we could completely switch over. Meanwhile, you would need everything that is in imperial, converted to metric as well.
LukefromDC@dademurphy @foone Just look at literal nuts and bolts. Cars use imperial or metric depending on where the maker's corporate headquarters is. Worst of all, some use a MIX, and I've even seen Metric bolts with Imperial heads and vice-versa.
Bikes are all metric, but getting good stainless steel metric bolts with hex heads for them is not always easy. Often I see anything I could ever need, but only in incompatable imperial threads!
One good thing is this: often the closest size you can rethread a stripped bolt hole too is from the other system. Example for small devices: if a 2mm bolt threaded into nylon strips the thread, a 2-56 tap will ready the hole to take that size screw. It's just slightly larger, while 3mm is much larger and heli-coils don't exist that small. So long as the bolt has a slot or Philips head this doesn't make the device it is on need two sets of tools to work on.
For something like 10mm, a heli-coil can save the hole and the bolt.
Florian Lohoff@LukefromDC @dademurphy @foone
In 1975 it was decided to go metric
@LukefromDC @foone some firearms are the same way, some use metric and some use imperial, fukn weird. I tried learning metric but my brain is a bit too old apparently and I don’t use it enough in my daily life to retain it.