Float adjusting / needle shimming

[movenon]

"I have older friends who say they are too old to convert to metric"

My belief is if you are lucky enough to get a day older then you should get a day smarter (or at least try).  When posting data on the forum I try to post both in U.S. and Metric as a courtesy to the rest of the world and to exercise working with the Metric system for myself.
Never to old to learn something.  The problem is I need more "RAM" storage....... Something arrives, something has to leave....
George

[andyb]

I did my schooling, apprenticeship and the early years of my working life with the Imperial system and you deal with it because it's all you know. Then the Country, and eventually my brain, converted to Metric. Having spent years with both, the Metric system is much easier to work with and understand. If you can count to ten, you've got it nailed. Even Thomas Jefferson recognised this hundreds of years of ago and wanted to change it and the country you adopted it from abandoned it nearly half a century ago.
America has no so much chosen to go alone but stay alone on this. The primary reason seems to be not because it believes it to be a better system but because of the difficulty in changing. Globally this is a real PIA for industry.

But as Andy said, you are more comfortable with what you know.

I use metric in my daily work (I'm a nurse).  It's great, except that any error you make is now off by a factor of 10 (or more!), and because it's unfamiliar, you're less likely to catch the mistake.  Of course, even today there are the occasional holdovers using ancient apocrathy units at times (tablespoons, grains, etc).

I always get a kick out of things that do this.  People who think in kilometers and kilograms, but have a scale that reads in stone.

Another good laugh, showing just how easy to use the metric system is would be the 1cc=/=1mL thing.

You use whatever is appropriate, and you think in whatever helps you think about it best, and then we all sit and thank the gods that we're not having to buy Whitworth stuff.

[Joe Sull]

My work since 1988 has been centered around Boyle's law. It's been hard enough to hold on to the fundamentals of these equations through the years. I wouldn't even try to think of gas laws in metric. If I was on a worldwide site dedicated to diving, I'm sure they would understand. I'll be lobster fishing this summer and if I don't pick up my navy diving manual through this off time, I'll look pretty stupid come next winter on a dive job.
I'll Convert and add what I can in metric for the sake of compromise.

[ribbert]

...........and then we all sit and thank the gods that we're not having to buy Whitworth stuff.

Errr, I have a full set of everything in Whitworth, and what's worse, I use it regularly.

Noel

[FJscott]

"I have older friends who say they are too old to convert to metric"

My belief is if you are lucky enough to get a day older then you should get a day smarter (or at least try).  When posting data on the forum I try to post both in U.S. and Metric as a courtesy to the rest of the world and to exercise working with the Metric system for myself.
Never to old to learn something.  The problem is I need more "RAM" storage....... Something arrives, something has to leave....
George

If we could select what leaves and what stays...that would be something.
I wish we (USA) would join the rest of the free world and adopt the metric system.
it would sure free up some space in my toolbox.
Scott

[Arnie]

andyb said, "thank the gods that we're not having to buy Whitworth stuff."

+1 to that,
even though I do have a reasonably full set of Whitworth tools. :-)
Happy to have them languish in the back of the toolbox.