The first thing my team does after kick off, laugh at the bolts and throw them in the "trashbin"(bin of parts for teaching new freshman how to do basic stuff). The US is the only place that doesn't use metric and most engineering firms are moving towards or already use only metric.
i can go on...
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Originally Posted by JCharlton
Welcome to North America, the only place where this is an issue.
I tried to move our team to metric due to the large number of M8's we had in stock for our Parker IPS extrusion. One system would reduce confusion I thought, M3, M4, M6, M8, but hasn't quite worked out that way, mostly because of COTS parts.
There's no doubt the rest of the world is metric and due to global commerce the U.S. is seeing the advantage of adopting metric. It's ironic that the automobile industry has chiefly moved to metric fasteners given that imperial is also known as "SAE" (Society of Automobile Engineers).
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Quoted for the truth.
also we get free bolts and fasteners from our sponsors. all of them major international engineering firms who will only give us metric fasteners because they just don't have any imperial equipment.