Martin _ I remember this 'notice' from many (around 30) years ago (when I lived in Canada). I had completely forgotten it! Thanks for reminding me of it. I think all of us where I worked at the time (Canadian Institute of Steel Construction) had a good laugh when it was taped to the wall next to the photocopier (which was always going wrong until eventually replaced with a new one). Especially the German engineer amongst us, who (contrary to the stereotyping that Germans don't have a sense of humour) thought it was very funny.
But you are right when it comes to dealing with things 'foreign'. Brits to some extent, but, I have to say, citizens of the US probably most of all. We used to have an expression in Canada when dealing with our US friends and colleagues - NIH (Not Invented Here). We always had to adapt to the US way of doing things, rarely the other way round. That really hurt when our way was acknowledged as being much superior technically. The response from Yellow Jacket is very worrying if I were considering buying from them - if for no other reason than they appear to not understand the distinction between temperature and pressure. Do they sell to metric countries (which would be anywhere outside the US)? If so, then that would be in spite of (not because of) their perceived capabilities (or lack of them) in making these products. American companies like this need to raise their game if they are not to get obliterated by the Chinese, Indians and the Russians in the coming years. As these countries become stronger, they will stop making the concessions to the US (especially in dealing in non-metric units) that the rest of the world has been making for many years now. John F-L ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:56 AM Subject: [USMA:45323] RE: Yellow Jacket The Brits are as bad when it comes to anything "foreign". Some years ago I sent a stylized version of http://www.grahamdavies.net/node/247 around the office. The response was two people rolling with laughter and thirty looking at it blankly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: 08 July 2009 21:58 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45322] Yellow Jacket http://www.yellowjacket.com/images/A_Maniflds/Brute-II-C-hose.jpg Yellow Jacket is a company that makes equipment for servicing Air Conditioning equipment, both Home and Auto. The A/C guy was around my house and I noticed the guage had psi and kg/cm2 indications as well as Celsius and Fahrenheit. I wrote asking if they had guages marked in kilopascals. Here is the reply, just shows the total ignorance of most of the American population. Michael Payne Subject: RE: Manifold gauges Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:04:38 -0500 From: Customer Service <custs...@yellowjacket.com> To: 'Michael Payne' <mike_pa...@verizon.net> References: <4a4e2d32.6070...@verizon.net> We only have gauges in Fahrenheit and metric. We do not make any gauges that read kilopascale. All of our metric gauges are sold for international companies. Sorry we could not help. Thank you. Donna Borgstahl Customer Service Rep. 952-943-1333 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Payne [mailto:mike_pa...@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:09 AM To: custs...@yellowjacket.com Subject: Manifold gauges Do you make an air conditioning manifold (gauges) that display kilopascals? I notice you have a gauge that includes kg/cm2 which is not an SI unit. See:http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/table3.html Michael Payne
