Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:40:01 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: metric system
In-Reply-To: <C1B7A074-9569-4E04-A0D1-D05BDCEBBE3B@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Damn, I felt I forgot something.
It’s all metric for me in temp.
Yeah I sometimes find myself doing conversion to imperial. Mostly for human scale temp.
But realistically and practically and very very most often , metric for temp for me
Alistair
> On Sep 17, 2021, at 7:36 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All true enough. Except for temperature. Fahrenheit, which takes the coldest and hottest average European temperatures and divide them hundred-scale. It is easier to deduce where you are on that human-factor comparison than the same scale suspended between the states of a liquid no matter how common the liquid might be.
>
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 17, 2021, at 9:27 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I was born in Scotland, first 12 years of my life there. There was metric lessons. In Canada, early 70s, was metric in school. Later in university , and for the next couple or three decades in lab , all metric .
>>
>> But…
>>
>> I worked construction too. And that was all imperial measure building supplies.
>> Now for the last decade , in metal work and cnc machining, it’s all imperial. Oh I get drawings and computer models of parts to make, in metric. But I convert to imperial as we have mostly imperial tooling.
>> Now, in machining, it doesn’t make any diff to me if measured in mm or thou of inch. At this point it’s just numbers. Decimal inches just as understandable and logical as metric measurement .
>>
>> All this background means a pretty mixed up view of measuring
>>
>> Speeds…. Driving etc… all metric
>> Volumes…. All metric ( it’s a no brainer )
>> Lengths… human scale… equal metric imperial
>> Lengths smaller than one inch… equal metric imperial. Really small all metric
>> Mass/weight… weighing myself is imperial , everything else metric
>> Fasteners, nuts bolts… equal metric imperial
>>
>> So mostly metric with exceptions. Anything scientific it’s metric. Machining it’s , as explained , imperial decimal .
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>>> On Sep 17, 2021, at 4:01 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, it is Friday, though to me, this is Vanagon related, since our beasts
>>> have metric fasteners. I thought I had a link to an opinion piece about
>>> the metric system and Canadians dislike of it, but it seems to have gotten
>>> lost. But, maybe you guys can respond anyway. Do Canadians dislike the
>>> metric system? The article claimed so, based on the fact that retailers
>>> advertise prices for items giving both metric and English weights and
>>> measures.
>>>
>>> So, Alistair, Bruce, other Maple Leaf types: Care to comment on this?
>>> Politics aside, which seems to be a part of it, what do Canadians generally
>>> think of being metric? Since anyone younger than 45 and Canadian could not
>>> possibly remember when the King's system was the norm, I guess it would be
>>> older folks who might have some objection. Personally, I wish the U.S.
>>> were on the metric system, since it is so much simpler than what we have to
>>> put up with, and I would not have to worry about conversions when traveling.
>>>
>>> mcneely
| 
