[AT] Spam> Re: Spam> bearing cross-reference

[Mattias Kessén]

If you consider it there can't really be such a big surprise their metric,
most modern ones are developed from Sven Wingqvist patents from 1906-7 and
onwards. He then also was the founder of SKF that pretty much set the
standards. Non metric system is a relic of a long gone era ;-) (even the
conservative English people is getting more and more used to metric system
though invented by the French they love to hate). In the beginning of the
last century the metric system wasn't really that obvious here but to
someone as foresighted as Sven Wingqvist and the German engineers that also
worked a lot wit bearings from 1880 some time it must have been the natural
choice. Even USA will become metric one day, you don't really want to know
about it though and certainly don't want me to write it on your nose but
when reading what a shock this was I couldn't help my self any longer and
I'm ready to get flamed. I like many things with your country and will love
to go there some day but sometimes your a bit on the conservative even to
me.

Mattias

P.S. I often say two by four when speaking of 45 X 95 or 6 inch pipe when
speaking of 150mm diameter but never in writing.