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

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 01:15:44 PST 2010


Charlie, since I'm in construction business I can tell you I'd rather build
from drawings with american measures than build from something converted by
an American, no offense but BTDT :-(

Mattias

2010/1/6 charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>

> 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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