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bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on February 29, 2020, 07:04:21 pm ---IF it was a standard part it would have been cheap.
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It IS a standard part. Those bearings are extensively used in all kinds of home appliances. Only that today they are metric.


--- Quote ---There are many advantages to the metric system.  But you are willing to go far beyond the real advantages of metric in your arguments. 
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Nope. I'm showing the REAL advantages of the metric system: one of them, cost reduction.
KL27x:
See the edit on my previous post.

You're complaining that we did metricate on bearings.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 29, 2020, 07:13:28 pm ---Your old drill is a victim of metrication. Or of standardization in general.

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As were my three perfectly working analog TV sets victims of the digital TV broadcasting. Am I complaining? Nope. This progress. Welcome, progress.
KL27x:
Yes, and you personally experienced and were complaining about this problem. You fail to understand that a heck of a lot more stuff was built in the last 150 years than your old drill, and the US built and continues to use way more than its share of this stuff. And that there are much bigger and costlier fish frying in that pan than one dude's quest to restore an old drill. So read your posts. Read CatalinaWow's post. And try to put 2 and 2 together.

Think of how many Americans have had this problem you had as a result of this metrication. We know many more ways to fix this problem then you seem to (phone a ball bearing manufacturer to replicate this old part; no biggie, I just need one!) Probably because it's a way bigger problem for us than for you. In this case, it was worth it. Because of the miracle that is a ball bearing is pretty insane. We're happy to have any size at the prices we can buy them at from China. It costs way more to support imperial and metric? Whad'ya mean, the constant rebuilding and maintenance of precision equipment to shape hardened steel bits to limits beyond comprehension costs money? OK, just give me the metric and I'll deal with it.

How many more problems would we suffer, for how many generations, in order to complete your holy vision? And what do we get out of it? Try again, and suspend your belief in reincarnation.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 29, 2020, 07:51:34 pm ---Yes, and you personally experienced and were complaining about this problem.

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I said it repeatedly, I'm not complaining. I was happy with the purchase. Only noted that it costs more than the modern metric. And it does so because it is obsolete. So maintaining something obsolete is expensive. Therefore maintaining the imperial system is expensive. Does it cost to change to metric? Of course it does, but have you stopped to calculate how much it costs to maintain the imperial system just because it is imperial?

This thread showed among other things that you don't do your homework so you have absolutely no objective reason to maintain imperial in the US. Your answers decay invariably to "The US is not metric just so that we can say that those who are questioning us are complaining we are not".

Unbelievable.


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