In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find the whole imperial/metric thing funny.

Like hell, even here in the USA, it's always the 10 millimeter socket (or in my case the 15 millimeter socket) that somehow disappears.

A pendulum of one meter length swings at a rate of once per second.

Where things get weird in the USA is one mile = 5280 feet. Like, who the fuck pulled that number out of their ass?

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh, that's interesting. Of all things to choose metric, why sockets?

I think the only thing where imperial is common here in (continental) Europe is screen sizes, which you always see in inches, and it's weird because people have absolutely no feel for how long 55" or whatever is. The other is pipes, though in plumbing is usual to have the equivalent in mm.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here in the us, sockets come in both imperial and metric. Foreign products are made with metric bolts, but some domestic made or designed stuff will use imperial. Working on things like cars is real fun because both standards are used on the same vehicle.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, pretty much.

When I'm working on vehicles or bicycles, it's almost always metric wrenches and sockets, until that one random bolt or nut that's for whatever dumb reason in imperial, like the random 1/2", or the fairly universal 5/8" spark plug socket.

Why? Hell if I know, but some of those things probably track all the way back to Henry Ford, and possibly even before him.