Joseph Reid writes:
> I think here Jim ignores the distinction between "soft" and "hard"
> conversion. The Canadian metric laws and regulations required only soft
> conversions, even of canned and prepackaged food. The products of Jim's
> old molds would have been quite acceptable if labeled in millimetres.
I am not ignoring this, I am simply addressing the realm in which I work. If
all you mean by some type of "metric mandate" is that consumer (retail)
products have metric on their labels (hard or soft), then my objection to
mandates is abated somewhat (not entirely).
My presumption throughout these discussions has been that a governmental
"metric mandate" applies to everything in the economy: consumer packaging,
wholesale and commodity packaging and pricing, production of products using
metric drawings and parts, etc.
The problem with my older injection molds is that they are designed to be
used with various types of colloquial fasteners. In some cases a metric
fastener could be used, in other cases it could not (either due to
tolerances or where the threads to a fastener are molded in).
Of course, there are all kinds of "hard tooling" that many manufacturers
have that are purely colloquial: thread stamping dies, untold numbers of
colloquial leadscrews and quality control instruments, etc.
Perhaps we need to back off and clarify a few things so we are all on the
same page.
What do the list members want a metric mandate to do?
Jim Elwell
