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Measurements old and new
johnfilmer:
Those of us of a certain age were brought up using Imperial measurements and pound shillings and pence. This causes conversion problems, a typical example being one of my service engineers, who when asked how long he wanted an item replied, About 2metres, give or take an inch.
Moving between machinery calibrated one in Imperial, and the other metric is another joy for the unwary.
Even working on cars in the late sixties meant whitworth/BSF, BA, A/F and metric fasteners. Some spanners are interchangeable, but only with the right sized hammer :D
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