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

[Larry Goss]

LOL!  I heard this argument (and others) for years from my students.  When push came to shove, I found that when they came into college, they didn't REALLY know any measurement system at all.  Too often, they were just like Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" contestants.  I ended up using the metric system in drafting classes exclusively for better than 20 years.

Almost nothing in our world is manufactured acording to the inch system.  It's all metric, and has been for many years.  The only discipline I find that steadfastly contunues to insist on inch measurements is the construction industry.  But even there, the standards for specifying dimension lumber and sheet goods is all metric -- even though it's labeled in inches.

Let the flames begin.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 7:37
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re:  Spam> bearing cross-reference
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Yeah Al, but if you could (given the stuff we have) put down the 
> english 
> system all together and go straight to metric you'd find it easier.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re: Spam> bearing cross-reference
> 
> 
> > The metric system is the work of the devil!  
> Theoretically it's easier but 
> > when you've learned feet, inches, yards, pounds, and ounces 
> your whole 
> > life, it's misery trying to convert.  The english units 
> work just fine and 
> > I intend to stay with 'em.
> >
> > Al
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