Oldtrader3
Ammo Smith
- Nov 6, 2009
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Aleena, I finally just had everything made for any plant, anywhere, made with metric dimensions and hardware. Most of our assembly and packaging equipment came from Germany anyhow and even our US made injection molding presses were metric. No point insisting to maintain an inch dimensional standard which more than half our manufacturing plants and none of my customer plants even used. My office was in Salt Lake but my work was ex-US.
Anyhow the upshot of that was the ability to convert units in my head and think metric mostly to converse with my client plants engineers. We in the US had a chance when the Brit's and Canadian's went metric in the 1950's but the now defunct SAE (Soc. of Auto Engineers) said no, so here we are fifty years later.
Anyhow the upshot of that was the ability to convert units in my head and think metric mostly to converse with my client plants engineers. We in the US had a chance when the Brit's and Canadian's went metric in the 1950's but the now defunct SAE (Soc. of Auto Engineers) said no, so here we are fifty years later.
