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Hi AVB,

The world switching to Metric ???

That would be a great idea wouldn't it ?, well that's what most of the world thought apart from one particular country that thinks it is the world and continually throws a spanner into the works.

Just look at the stupidity and arrogance regarding Gun control, while this mentality exists the world can't move forward.

Cheers,
BB.

Totally agree it is those that want to stay in the dinosaur age that are a problem.

Personally being an Amateur Radio Operator I deal with metric daily and it is so much easier to convert. I have to pull out the cheat sheet every time I turn around to figure out the next size in inch fractions.

As gun owner and hunter I subscribe one shot one kill rule. I don't seen any reason to use an AK-47 to rabbit hunt. Those military type weapons has no place in the general population. Too many hair brains out there.

BB,

I started thinking about this metric thing, all of Europe/Asia would be/was metric, guessing Russia would be, not sure what the UK is so that is a big chunk of the world. One problem we here have is that a lot of us work on old machines that predate the general world swapping to metric.When I really think about it how many countries were not metric, probably British Commonwealth countries and the US.

hi Norm & AVB,

Metric works on the base of 10 and that makes it just so easy opposed to imperial and then which imperial ?

I know we have to deal with the old stuff but most of that has come to the point of being turfed out now and being replaced with a metric equivalent. There's plenty of old tooling still left around to deal with tat stuff but honestly metric is far easier to work with and having a common playing field all around the smaller world would be far better in the long term I feel.

Now if we could just apply that theory to shoes and clothes we'd be on top of it wouldn't we ?

Cheers,
BB

I know we kinda got off the subject at hand, but I am wondering if Dave107 has got around to trying to one of methods we all discussed? Be it re-tapping or helix coiling.

Sorry for taking so long respond guys. Yes I did go the helix coiling option. Bought a kit that included a 21/64" drill bit with a tap and handle and 10 coils. Heads back on and going strong.