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Originally Posted by roysoldboy
I will have to say that you don't know much about the manufacture of agricultural equipment. I own only one vehicle from the 80s but it has no metric bolts or nuts on it. My son worships anything old so he has one 1946 truck, one 1973 truck, one 1993 truck and finds no metric bolts on any of them.
I happen to know quite a bit about ag equip and mechanics in general...better check that 1993 truck again REAL close and you may just find that you're mistaken on it having metric bolts in it...and yes,it is a pain in the butt to have to have two sets of tools and what's worse,the older I get my eyes deceive me at first glance whether it's metric or standard and that now has me carrying a caliper in my pocket more often than not to avoid several trips to the toolbox.
So I just learned an interesting fact. There are only three countries not using the metric system - the U.S. of course, Liberia, and Myanmar.
Why are we not on the metric system? Did the tool manufacturing lobby keep it this way so that we all have to buy twice as many tools? Look in any mechanic's shop and you'll see a set of standard tools and a duplicate set of metric tools. I call conspiracy, dammit!!!
in the maintenace field we have been using the metric system since the 1980's...everthing is metric now... SAE and BME/BSPP( the british sizes) are OBSOLETE on major things...might still be around on farm equip though...(looking for input on that)
in foods and other things, its a MIX.....we still use gallons..but you dont buy a half gallon of CocaCola..you get a 2 liter....all dietaty measurement are metric...ie grams
There was a lot of push towards moving to the metric system in the 1970s, complete with a creation of a Metric Board for bringing metric system to fruition. Ronald Reagan administration, however, put the brakes on it in 1982. The history of a decimal based system in this country goes as far back as Thomas Jefferson who proposed the idea in 1790.
Kind of the same way why soccer is huge around the world but unpopular here, as well as football is huge here but not popular really anywhere else, that's how the US does it!
Though in reality most everything that is assembled uses metric bolts and have for decades. Auto manufactures switched over to metric bolts back in the early 80's
Not really, Jeep for example still uses a lot of non metric bolts.
in the maintenace field we have been using the metric system since the 1980's...everthing is metric now... SAE and BME/BSPP( the british sizes) are OBSOLETE
in foods and other things, its a MIX.....we still use gallons..but you dont buy a half gallon of CocaCola..you get a 2 liter....all dietaty measurement are metric...ie grams
You still use gallons but your gallon has less volume than any other country in the world
having only 3.79 liters.
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in the maintenace field we have been using the metric system since the 1980's...everthing is metric now... SAE and BME/BSPP( the british sizes) are OBSOLETE on major things...might still be around on farm equip though...(looking for input on that)
in foods and other things, its a MIX.....we still use gallons..but you dont buy a half gallon of CocaCola..you get a 2 liter....all dietaty measurement are metric...ie grams
Which maint. field is that WCH...every power plant/manufacturing plant/coal production plant I have ever worked on was SAE with very few exceptions...some German components we installed were metric tho'.
I will have to say that you don't know much about the manufacture of agricultural equipment. I own only one vehicle from the 80s but it has no metric bolts or nuts on it. My son worships anything old so he has one 1946 truck, one 1973 truck, one 1993 truck and finds no metric bolts on any of them.
Those old eyes may be deceiving you there roys The US auto manufactures started using metric bolts popping up as early as the late 70's and were pretty much exclusive by the early 80's. There is no way a 93' truck has no metric bolts.
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The US auto manufactures started using metric bolts popping up as early as the late 70's and were pretty much exclusive by the early 80's. There is no way a 93' truck has no metric bolts.
