(10-10-2019, 02:14 PM)Turner52 Wrote: Metric is super easy to learn and do in your head. Why this country is too stuborn to convert I will never understand, Yes it would cost money to do, but would not need to be done in1 big step. It could be fased in. A large part of our manufacturing system is forced to do metric in order to sell on the world market. Really frustrating to me is when I am working on something and a socket will not fit correctly. Always in a spot that is impossible to see. Rust, dinged up or metric. Probably 1 of the 3, but which one?
IMO, Metric is not easier. It's more difficult for woodworking.
A foot is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. (base 12)
A meter is only divisible by 2 and 5 (base 10)
Not very often that sheet goods are cut into 5 equal pieces.
So if you have a 2 meter piece of wood that you need cut into 3 pieces, each is 2/3 of a meter, you are now
back to doing fractional or weird decimal measurements. And if someone says "Well, that's obviously 666 millimeters", good
luck finding a tape that is readable and can easily measure that.. how is that any easier than reading 5/32 of an inch.. it is not, in my opinion. Millimeters are basically the same thing as a decimal.. not really any easier at all.
Just learn fractions guys, it's not that hard. (I am joking here).