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Re: English or Metric?
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Originally Posted by TimCraig
Yes. Entire industries would have had to retool their plants to switch over to metric so there was always a lot of intertia to prevent it from happening. It's been happening gradually but more from the pressure of markets becoming global. But what we're seeing in some cases is that the English products dimensions are just being converted to convenient metric instead of being "pure". And now we just close our factories and buy the parts from Asia which already has metric in place.
I know what you mean. Working in a timber yard where everyhting is in metric inches (say 2" by 4" timber is actually just 50x100 mm)
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