[AT] Transmission oil, 90-wt?

[Larry D. Goss]

Back in 1975 when we were "supposed" to make a concentrated effort to
convert to metric measurements, I gave my college freshmen a test that
covered both the US customary units and the ISO metric.  Guess what!
They didn't have a clue about either one of them.  So I figured they
needed to learn at least one and I tried to teach some fundamental ISO
measurements for the next 20 years or so.  It was an exercise in
futility.  What really muddied the waters was when we started working
with the decimal inch system (standard everywhere except at Home Depot
and Lowes).  I finally ended up letting the students work with either
the ISO or the decimal inch.  Those students who insisted on working
with the fractional inch system abandoned it within a matter of minutes
when they found that no computer system supported it as a default mode
of operation.

Bottom line: students know more about how to text message each other
than they will ever learn about any measurement system.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:31 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Transmission oil, 90-wt?

Speaking as someone who makes a living by constantly switching back and 
forth between English and Metric, I say get educated and learn how to
use 
both. Then you can learn about British pipe threads, Japanese pipe
threads, 
British conduit threads etc. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be
able 
to use all systems---just a willingness not to be so lazy as to refuse
to 
learn something new.

Just my opinion and probably worth about half what you paid for it!!!
John Hall 


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