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why is the US not Metric
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: KL27x on December 02, 2019, 12:14:47 am ---It's surprising that US makes this stuff to export to UK, lol. Sure it isn't made in China for US company?
--- Quote --- I've no problem with different units of measurement but surprised if the part is destined for a metric country
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Screwfix probably carries it for a reason? :-// Maybe there's still a demand for these for older homes, or such? And perhaps some people buy this model by mistake. Perhaps helped by the typical store employee? +1 to CatalinaWOW, this is just one of many things to look forward to for 80+ years after a forced transition. Maybe the UK could have just switched from 1 1/2" pipe to 38mm pipe? :)
Aside: I find it pretty amazing that some teenagers in UK don't know what lbs or inches are, anymore. I would think they still teach this in school and still have inches and lbs on rulers and scales along with the metric.
Tooki, cool thing about Sweden's transition from Left to Right? Swedes were apparently already driving RHD cars, close to 90%. And even then they still didn't want to change to driving on the right hand side.
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RHD means vehicles where the driver sits on the right hand side of the vehicle.
The correct term for the placement of vehicles on the road is "Left Hand Traffic" or "Right Hand Traffic".
The Swedish cars were already mostly LHD.(see Wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
KL27x:
^Thanks. Corrected.
Swedes be like "just gimme any car, and now leave me alone."
SilverSolder:
I was in Sweden when they switched... I remember the city buses had the doors "boarded up" on the one side, and new doors installed on the other...
boffin:
--- Quote from: KL27x on November 27, 2019, 01:59:39 am ---Our biggest export is air travel planes, which the fasteners and the ATC are imperial.
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No, they're not. Since the 80s, the FMS systems in Boeing aircraft use kg of fuel, not lbs. (see ACA143)
Plenty has switched over, and more is going.
The fact that the US refuses to switch is pure stubbornness
KL27x:
--- Quote ---No, they're not. Since the 80s, the FMS systems in Boeing aircraft use kg of fuel, not lbs. (see ACA143)
Plenty has switched over, and more is going.
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The bolts are all imperial. The Air Traffic Control uses feet and nautical miles.
--- Quote ---The fact that the US refuses to switch is pure stubbornness
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You don't know what stubbornness means, do you? Walk to the nearest mirror and look directly into it.
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