keithski122
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Both.What ever is more convenient, if I measure a square seat panel up it may be 10inches in one direction and 45 cm in the other. Sometimes it might be 10inches plus 10mm on each edge.
I did a job several years ago in a Poultry factory and a chap from the Netherlands was running the project. I asked him about the position of a machine and he came straight back with " oh just fix it 18 inches from the line" I was impressed with his instant response in imperial.I'm Dutch, so raised on metric and that is what I use most.
But after getting addicted to series LandRovers I quickly learned about imperial fasteners. It took me over twenty years and a lot of money to cure that addiction.
Converting inches to mm and vice versa is no problem. Thou, tens, feet. All clear as day. Even de fractions.
But don't come talking about chains, furlongs, grains, stone, cwt. I haven't got a clue.
Yea but how many dry 123s do you need to order up front to fill a total of 2 cubic meters (wet) of holes in the ground?3-2-1...simple, works with any volumetric system.
All Ford stuff that has been designed since 2005 has been metric. or should be since the Global design rules!!Whenever you work on American cars you reach for the metric sockets. But since 2015, the new Mustang uses 21mm wheel nuts on M14x1.5 thread.
Could it be that if the Americans will slowly convert?
I'm Dutch, so raised on metric and that is what I use most.
But after getting addicted to series LandRovers I quickly learned about imperial fasteners. It took me over twenty years and a lot of money to cure that addiction.
Converting inches to mm and vice versa is no problem. Thou, tens, feet. All clear as day. Even de fractions.
But don't come talking about chains, furlongs, grains, stone, cwt. I haven't got a clue.
I worked in the printing industry for 9-10 years, tension was always measured in DecaNewtons! Used to say that word multiple times every day...HectoPascals.
Borrocks.
Yes, same here, and I also swing both left handed and right handed.I'm bi, both work for me.
You do all your figuring in cubic meters.Yea but how many dry 123s do you need to order up front to fill a total of 2 cubic meters (wet) of holes in the ground?
I had a mate who would just keep ordering until the job was done...then put the excess in the skip .
Johnson is an American company!I've had a Johnson 4hp seahorse outboard from 1974 made in Europe can't remember right now if it was Swedish or wherever, anyway north Europe in the Baltic region ...
It had all imperial threads and bolts sizes