Actually... not so "stupid" if you are in the building trades. 12 has more factors than 10, which makes is a LOT more convenient when breaking it into divisible segments.
Also... it keeps us safe from the Canadians invading. Everytime they've tried they fall short of their destination. ;) -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 8:13 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 microphone nut size In my teens, there was metric, confined to meters [or metres] used by amateur radio operators, and all the rest: inches, feet, pounds, gallons, quarts, cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, and the other plethora of stupid measures I grew up with. We had 2x4's, which actually were not 2" x 4". We measured nails in pennies ... I'm sure there was a reason ... OK, not so sure, but that's how it was. Then, the US Military sent me to the other side of the planet, and over time I began to think metric. Meters, grams, kilograms, liters became normal. I came home ... they still are normal, I now have to convert metric to stupid. It would be great if we actually did join the rest of the world before the end of my lifetime. But, I'm not holding my breath. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 8/28/2020 6:14 PM, Rich NE1EE wrote: > Yes ;-) I started w metric in the 70s, because it made a lot of sense. When I > got my license in the 90s, I had to pick up a few Craftsman metric tape > measures on one of my trips to Canada...could not find one in the US at all. > > Worth noting that while you can often swap sockets and wrenches twixt US and > metric...there are many sizes that have close equivalents...the same does not > hold true at all for nuts and screws that I have found. Might be some that > are close, but I have not stumbled across them. > > On 2020-08-28 17:48:-0700, Phil Kane wrote: >> On 8/28/2020 1:49 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: >> >>> Metric 6 mm is close enough to thread on but wrong threads per inch? >> Remember that US electronics is slowly going Metric inch by inch.... >> :) >> >> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to l...@ka7ftp.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
