“We’re a metric company”

"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario) 04/09/2018 at 19:44 • Filed to: None

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Is what a company I used to work for said. That doesn’t mean we did anything that made sense in metric though. We still used standard hardware and designed everything in inches and feet. The only thing metric was converting everything to metric on the drawings. So we had bolts that were 12.7mm and parts with a 25.4mm hole etc etc, but hey we were a metric company 

Bonus game: what do these three things have in common?

Ash78, voting early and often > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 19:57

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They all got screwed, either by a wrench, a younger competitor, or lack of marketing?

For Sweden > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 20:08

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My arbitrary way of counting is better than your arbitrary way of counting.

OPPOsaurus WRX > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 20:10

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They are all different things made by a man or woman (and I one case one of each)

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Ash78, voting early and often 04/09/2018 at 20:23

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That works too lol

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > For Sweden 04/09/2018 at 20:24

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I know you are but what am I

diplodicus forgot his password > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 20:40

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You know what pisses me off, BSPT vs NPT. Granted I’ve only encountered one machine that uses bspt and it’s Italian. What pisses me off though is the the thread shape between the two is identical, but the British has one more thread per inch. Why?!

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > diplodicus forgot his password 04/09/2018 at 20:43

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How long did that take to figure out? I feel like I’d keep trying it and wonder why it’s not quite working and just get more and more pissed

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > OPPOsaurus WRX 04/09/2018 at 20:54

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They are all a bolt hahahahahahaha

OPPOsaurus WRX > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 20:55

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well that was the obvious answer

here is another one:

diplodicus forgot his password > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 21:16

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Not too long. It’s pretty clear something’s fuck. Had an old fitting from the machine to use a thread gauge on though. If I only had the thread machined into the coolant lines it probably would have been a while.

wkiernan > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 21:23

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Ah, but do you use US survey inches or international inches? That’s a very important distinction: precisely two parts in a million.

Jayvincent > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/09/2018 at 21:33

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I do miss measuring in rods and chains

once I was a surveyor, not a purveyor...

alas, nevermore

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > wkiernan 04/09/2018 at 22:54

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Pffft...this is the USA do you think we use that international crap here?

duurtlang > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/10/2018 at 02:28

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“Only in America”

pip bip - choose Corrour > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 04/10/2018 at 06:39

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all bolts!