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

[charliehill]

Larry, you'll get no arguement from me but I will defend the construction 
workers.  Lots of them are very skilled craftsmen but at the same time not 
very educated.  Lots of the guys I've worked and worked with have been 
"trained" how to read a tape and they have memorized some short cuts.  NOW 
put them in the middle of a big construction site, in the hot sun or the 
cold wind and give them a set of drawings that is in Metric and they are 
totally lost.  They have NO CLUE where to start to do the conversions and 
for millrights, pipefitters and layout guys the stuff has to be precise. 
The only way they can deal with it at all is to convince them to put away 
their english tapes and rules and give them metric tapes and rules.  Then 
they are still confused because they don't even know how to communicate a 
measurement by voice to the guy they are working with.   By the same token 
the millrights well understand what .011 means because they have a feeler 
guage or micrometer that has that reading on it.  They just don't make the 
connection between the two and on the job is NOT a good place to re-train 
them.  The Journeymen have all pretty much picked it up by now.  The problem 
mainly comes with the helpers and semi-skilled guys.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> Re: Spam> bearing cross-reference


> 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"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:02 AM
>> 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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