Notice that none of the blog comments are of the "I don't wanna!" type that we usually see in the US when metric is brought up. People just assume that the changeover is inevitable, mandated by law, and they'll have to get used to it. We have a completely different attitude here, hence the problem with implementing metric.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Kilopascal <kilopas...@cox.net> wrote: > ** > > http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2012/05/23/panama-moving-to-metric/ > > Where do people get the idea that US made cars are not fully metric? > > > ** > jim and nena on **May 24, 2012 at 8:53 > am**<http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2012/05/23/panama-moving-to-metric/comment-page-1/#comment-95891> > said: > ** > > I don’t have a preference to which system is used as long as everyone uses > the same system. I have been maintaining a double set to tools since I was > in high school. Everything I work on from cars, to computers, to > dishwashers has some of each system for its fasteners. For example,FordMoCo > buys water pumps and rear axles from Canada, they are all metric > fasteners, most of the smog equipment is metric, everything else is > imperial system. My greatest fear is someone will create an entirely new > system and I will have to start over replacing tools! OMG. > All metric is fine with me, I will however, miss asking for “tubafours” at > Lowes. > [image: :-)] > jim and nena >
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