Miles per gallon.

[618 Syndicate]

blueprints are in millimeters, here on Canada, not meters. like an entire school or whatever. Iv built the cabinetry in many facilities and all the drawings are in millimeters. every single detail. LMAO

But since the prints are to scale, they can easily be measured in MM and scaled up to the real size in MM and then converted to SAE.

Iv done that many times because my shops prints were always missing critical data. like where the cabinets were actually orientated within the room.

my shop redraws the prints into SAE and most shops do this. LOL

That defeats the whole purpose of the metric system! Ease of conversion between units is the point...

 

[F4U-1A]

blueprints are in millimeters, here on Canada, not meters. like an entire school or whatever. Iv built the cabinetry in many facilities and all the drawings are in milometers. LMAO

my shop redraws the prints into SAE and most shops do this. LOL

I call them white prints. Think I saw the last blue print, was it the Avro Arrow.

 

[thegawd]

HAHAHAHA Way she goes. industry hasn't changed fully in all sectors. I have like, 12 SAE tape measures and 1 Metric tape measure that I only used to measure the prints. LOL convert it and write it down on my print.

 

[F4U-1A]

That defeats the whole purpose of the metric system! Ease of conversion between units is the point...

God Damn Frenchmen, All Good,. Married one. No No French Irish Women, from Montreal. That explains my drinking EH?

 

[Erik the Awful]

How many inches in a mile? Grab a calculator and you'll find it's 63,360, and that's if you remember that there are 5280 feet in a mile.
How many centimeters in a kilometer? Centi = 1/100 and kilo = 1000. There are 100,000 cm in a km.

If you have a container 12"x12"x12", how many quarts does it hold? I had to google it - 29.9 quarts.
If you have a container 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, it's 1,000 cubic centimeters. A thousand cc is one liter.

Some frenchman two hundred years ago got pissed when he miscalculated something that required a dozen different conversions, and decided to make things easier for everyone. But, sure, it's a conspiracy.

Two years ago I moved into my current job. We were doing work in a fifty year old computer system written in Cobol. The software is so old that there isn't a computer that can natively run it any more. It has to be run in a shell on a newer system. Every quarter they would print out hundreds of thousands of pages and an army of specialists would sit at our desks with black and red pens and mark inventory corrections.

Management never replaced the software because it was paid for, even though they were spending thousands of dollars every quarter just on paper, pens, and paperclips. The labor costs are incredible. They finally decided to move to newer software with real-time tracking instead of once-every quarter adjustments. Instead of being a green-screen, text and field data entry with text printouts, the new software is point-and-click with graphs and charts. It's much more capable.

...but...

Moving to the newer software has been a $#!+show. The learning curve on the software is a little steep if you don't have good training, and our trainers are learning the software about as fast as they're having to roll it out. Most of the people I work with have been using the old system for a decade or so, and it took them years to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. Most of them didn't really understand the process they were following, they just knew how to do it. Now they have to throw all that out and learn the new system. Many of them have been fighting to ditch the new system and go back to the old system. That's absolutely not going to happen.

The other day someone asked management with all seriousness if there were going to be pay raises for having to learn new software skills, or for the headaches caused by learning the new system. In my head I'm screaming "It's you're f***ing job!", but then I also realize the labor market is tight, and now's the time to ask for a raise.

That's a long way of saying, you're not stopping the metric system, and if you take the time to learn it you'll be better for it.

 

[F4U-1A]

How many inches in a mile? Grab a calculator and you'll find it's 63,360, and that's if you remember that there are 5280 feet in a mile.
How many centimeters in a kilometer? Centi = 1/100 and kilo = 1000. There are 100,000 cm in a km.

If you have a container 12"x12"x12", how many quarts does it hold? I had to google it - 29.9 quarts.
If you have a container 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, it's 1,000 cubic centimeters. A thousand cc is one liter.

Some frenchman two hundred years ago got pissed when he miscalculated something that required a dozen different conversions, and decided to make things easier for everyone. But, sure, it's a conspiracy.

Two years ago I moved into my current job. We were doing work in a fifty year old computer system written in Cobol. The software is so old that there isn't a computer that can natively run it any more. It has to be run in a shell on a newer system. Every quarter they would print out hundreds of thousands of pages and an army of specialists would sit at our desks with black and red pens and mark inventory corrections.

Management never replaced the software because it was paid for, even though they were spending thousands of dollars every quarter just on paper, pens, and paperclips. The labor costs are incredible. They finally decided to move to newer software with real-time tracking instead of once-every quarter adjustments. Instead of being a green-screen, text and field data entry with text printouts, the new software is point-and-click with graphs and charts. It's much more capable.

...but...

Moving to the newer software has been a $#!+show. The learning curve on the software is a little steep if you don't have good training, and our trainers are learning the software about as fast as they're having to roll it out. Most of the people I work with have been using the old system for a decade or so, and it took them years to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. Most of them didn't really understand the process they were following, they just knew how to do it. Now they have to throw all that out and learn the new system. Many of them have been fighting to ditch the new system and go back to the old system. That's absolutely not going to happen.

The other day someone asked management with all seriousness if there were going to be pay raises for having to learn new software skills, or for the headaches caused by learning the new system. In my head I'm screaming "It's you're f***ing job!", but then I also realize the labor market is tight, and now's the time to ask for a raise.

That's a long way of saying, you're not stopping the metric system, and if you take the time to learn it you'll be better for it.

I was in the calibration field for a bit. Everything is traced to some Newton under glass in France. ( I think, am not going to Google it),. Second thought as I de snow ones self, I remember we had to learn Fortran, in Circa 1978 when I started my ENG education. Good Times.

 

[1997]

for anyone interested on how CDN's early implementation of the metric system went ,,, google Gimli glider ...

 

[1989GMCSIERRA]

Canada uses liters and kilometers. USA uses gallons and miles.

 

[AuroraGirl]

The Metric system is why people get old and die. They're making room for younger folks with flexible minds.

I've used Metric wrenches since the middle-'70s and I'm still not used to, or comfortable with Metric stuff. I still prefer to think of it as a French plot to screw-up the rest of the world, and they're succeeding mightily. In particular, I deeply resent the Celsius temperature scale. Freezing to boiling water in 100 degrees is nuts. 200 degrees, I could deal with. The damn degrees are too "big" as-is. The single redeeming feature of Celsius is that Forty Below is uniformly damn cold in either scale--C or F.

I get by. When I have to. Get off my lawn!

the point of celcius is that 0 is freezing , pretty logical, and the scale forcelius would be really ******* wacked if the 0-212(200 to be simple) was cramed in, I fear we would be looking at 0 as freezing and -10 as something in antartica

also its a lot easier to remember a simple sequence of sockets and wrenches where size increases by 1 mm each mm of change in the label. if you have an idea of what a 8mm is like, and you also know 15 mm, it in my mind is pretty easy. I can handle SAE, The one thing SAE should have done to make it more logical in the size order would be to have non reduced fractions. sounds dumb to have a 3/8 be a 6/16th or a 12/32 but if each wrench was ended in 16 or 32, on denominator, you have zero need to memorize the fractionals placemetn to eachother and you only need the top number. hell if that happeend, SAE sockets and wrenches would probably only havee the top number like metric

thgat would be cool lol

 

[AuroraGirl]

Canada uses liters and kilometers. USA uses gallons and miles.

I use teaspoons and knots, speak for yourself

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