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Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:38:40 -0500
Reply-To:     EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From:         EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: SI vs. dumb (0 cc's Vanagon content)
Comments: To: VWwesty84@aol.com
In-Reply-To:  <0.2452e57a.258acd2c@aol.com>
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Sorry but I think your in a specialty here. I would like to see anyone on the list here go into there local home center, and ask for a 101.6mmx50.8mmx2438.4mm. Otherwise known as a 2x4 - 8 foot long!

Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 VWwesty84@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/15/1999 7:27:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, vw4x4@FYI.NET > writes: > > << Take a butch, a mechanic, or a carpender. Do you think > for one minuite they would like to see there suppliers, all of a > sudden, one day talk to them in meters. Just an't gona happen. > >> > Hmm. > As the son of a late cabinetmaker, I have to respectfully disagree. He used > metric measurements whenever possible, which was almost always. Why, you may > ask? > > Major suppliers of fine cabinet hardware use the metric system. Initially > the "best" stuff (or at least the stuff the customers wanted) was European, > therefore metric. North American suppliers began to make compatible (read > metric) stuff in relatively short order. Not all of them, of course, but > I'll bet all who hoped to compete in a global econmomy did. Dad had to > adapt, or be forever converting. The European 32mm standard is nearly > universal in cabinetry made today. > Once he adapted, his work was made far simpler. No more 1/2's plus 1/64's > minus 1/32's, etc. Is it cm? mm? -- easy conversion either way -- just > move the decimal point. > It's not that hard if we just do it. We all buy 2 liter bottles of soda, > don't we? ..wasn't that hard to adjust. Just couldn't buy 64oz anymore. > > sorry for the semi-rant! > Doug Prescott > Downingtown, PA (about 50km west of Phila) >


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