Originally Posted by
Steve Peterson
I use Imperial, but convert everything to the closest thousandth of an inch. Most of my tape measures are Imperial. I usually buy rulers with a scale for 10ths, 100ths on one side and 1/16ths, 1/64ths on the other side. Imperial calipers read in thousandths.
So in effect, I am using Imperial in a metric fashion. I would have preferred to make the switch to metric in the 70s.
Steve
I do the exact same thing. I bet you are a machinist. I used to be one, and thousandths are permanently imprinted on my brain. Intellectually I can certainly agree that the metric system has advantages, but I think in Imperial and that's not going to change.
Last edited by Steve Voigt; 12-06-2015 at 11:52 PM.
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