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Yes you will always have that when trying to repair items. You have a heck of a time repairing/replacing parts on a firearm made pre mass production. Even with mass produced items you eventually run...

In a global economy where parts are made and distributed all over the world to be assembled in various place, it would be easier for all if one form of measurement was used. It would make design,...

The mill wrights used to joke that their metric wrench kit was an adjustable wrench.

Bob

If you want to see how something as simple as conversions from one measuring system to another could have lead to a large tragedy read about the Gimli Glider. Specifically the accident investigation...

There is also the difference between Imperial measures and US Customary measures. Classic example is the difference between the US Gallon/3.8 Liters and the Imperial Gallon/4.6 Liters. That...

So long as we share the continent with the USA and they don't change to metric we will always use a mix of metric and imperial in construction. It is just more economical to manufacture materials in...

No idea why that is. I do know that my generation was in school when Canada officially converted to the metric system and are likely the last generation of Canadians to be comfortable with both...