Ashley Burton
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Is it me or does the states seem to have alot more choice available & wider ranges of tools compared to here in the UK?
Would quite like to go round some of the tool stores, Would probably have to take a spare case!
Would quite like to go round some of the tool stores, Would probably have to take a spare case!
always good value are imperial sockets,spanners allen keys
Just as hard to find metric only tapes over here.Bit of a P take over here buying Imperial stuff. I wouldn't care, but we started it!
The other thing I always buy is a good slack handful of tape measures and rulers (Lufkin are the best rulers) because they have inches ON BOTH EDGES! Bloody annoying are the metric/imperial rules.
Any type of construction or fabrication and I measure it all up in inches. It is the way I have always done it and have no wish to change now, there is no reason to.
Just as hard to find metric only tapes over here.
True.Germany. They have Metric only tapes and rulers.
I find this whole metrication thing slightly ridiculous. Here we are, years later and still using all sorts of different units of measure, I include weight in this. It is the unique British Psyche I think, unwilling to let go of the past (we have always done it this way) and unwilling to embrace the new. But there is little incentive to change and indeed, why should I?
I think it reached the plateau of absurdity when the greengrocer in Sunderland (and four others around the country) was prosecuted for selling bananas by the pound, really? As I read once, you can legislate measurement, but you cannot legislate how people think.
I was born on this day in 1982
My youngest is 2.5 again weights noted in pounds and ounces.I distinctly remember Mr & Mrs Blair's spokesperson announcing to the world the weight of their new born in pounds and ounces. Right after the Metric Martyr's were prosecuted.
Sums it all up really.