<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I always smile at the thought that "standard" = what America uses, and "metric" = what the rest of the world uses. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">As an immigrant raised on the metric system, I wonder if I'll ever be smart enough to figure out this "standard" system of measurement.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">And you're right, the fact that it's all mixed up helps nobody.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ed</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:39 PM, William Bagwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net" target="_blank">rb211@tds.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tuesday 26 January 2016, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> So did the coffee packers. Used to be a 1lb package that turned into a<br>
> 12oz package at about the same price.<br>
> We don't use metric now because the auto industry yelled it bankrupt<br>
> them to convert. Hmm. Didn't we bail out a few? Don't they all use<br>
> metric now anyway? My "Made in the USA" Saturn Vue has lots of metric<br>
> bolts.<br>
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</span>Absolutely despise working on cars that are mixed! Foreign cars are metric<br>
and antique Detroit iron is standard, but many modern American cars are both<br>
and require two sets of tools. <muter, muter son of a duck!><br>
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William<br>
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