Re: What is happening with metrication?

cars have been a horrible failure, lots of american cars are still a
mish-mash

we did work for a caterpillar OEM, and cat is all metric.

er, sort of.

We supplied electrical enclosures with 10-32 screws, hehehe

All of our inch dimensions were drawn into funky metric combinations

I do a fair amount of creating knock-off components, for 70's european
dirtbikes, and wartime german electronics.

I measure in inches, try to determine a nominal metric dim, then draw in cad
using inches to 3 or 4 decimals, depending on the feature.


"Jon Elson" <jmelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>
> William Wixon wrote:
>
>>that metric time link is funny, what a thing to get used to THAT would be.
>>thing that surprised me was working on a '05 Ford Ranger seemed some of it
>>was metric (which surprised me greatly) and some is standard. jeez! i
>>was fumbling with sockets and wrenches trying to figure out which was
>>which. seems easier if they'd make it ALL standard or ALL metric.
>>
> Cars have been largely metric for over 20 years, now! The only imperial
> bolt-head I know of on my 1998 Dodge Ram van is the oil drain plug. Oh,
> yeah, the lug
> nuts are the other imperial fastener on there. Everything
> major in the inside is either 8 or 10 mm or a Torx fastener.
>
> Jon
>


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