Originally Posted by Oldblock
Greg
I have long been intrigued by your nation's refusal to join the rest of the planet and use the metric system. Back in my youth I admired the American way because, as a Pom, we used quaint units like Pounds Shillings and Pence (currency) and Hundredweights, Stones Pounds and Ounces while 'over there' you had decimal currency and weighed everything in Pounds.
The rest of us have come a long way since then, not only have we joined the rest of the world in adopting a universal system but we describe the size of things by their dimensions ie 75mm nail is a 75mm nail not a 'd' size and a 6mm or quarter inch drill is just that not some obscure number.
The same goes for wire guages and so on.
Is there any movement afoot (a300mm) for change? A year or two back I read somewhere that all US Government contracts were going to adopt the metric system.
How big is a 3d nail anyway?
What is 4/4 timber? Lumber sorry.
What are board feet? Tired of walking perhaps?