I've read my daily driver, a domestic, has both metric and SAE fasteners, can't testify to that though, I threw out all my metric tools long ago and only wrench on old American junk.. in other words I'm no help in this area at all.
Simplified explanation: 1. Convert imperial fraction to decimal equivalent. Example: 5/8" = .625" 2. Multiply by 25.4 Example: .625" x 25.4 = 15.875 mm The majority of blueprints (for oilfield anyway) have imperial dimensioning so even though in Canada we primarily work in inches.
Then...when you torque it, make sure you do it in "newtonmetres". Plus, all of us in north america have been using metric for years. Money is metric. 100 cents is a dollar, cent as in centimetre. 10 x 10 cent equals a dollar. 100 equals a century, a C note..... blah blah......
hahaha no ****! Yes sir. LOL, will a pound of sand weight as much as a pound of stones? Still waitin for a bigger pic of your avatar.
Tires as we Americans say or tyres as the British say come in metric size in cross section and height but in inches in diameter. Having owned several imported cars all came with inch system wheels. Went to buy bearings for a Trimuph TR-4 transmission a few years ago and the young fellow at the counter at the bearing house informed me that all bearings only came in metric sizes, with that I turned and walked out and went to a different bearing shop and got my bearings.
in my trade (neon signs) tube diameter is in m.m., but length is in feet, makes me think both ways. RD
And don't forget, if you are working on a Porsche or Mercedes you must drink Heiniken, on an old American car it's Pabst Blue Ribbon Ha ha ha ha ha.
Fractions **** ***! It's so much easier to find center of something that's 253 mm than something that's 10 1/8"
I for one don't understand why you Americans didn't go to the metric system when it was introduced. Fractions is a ****load harder to work out than using millimetres / centimetres.. i mean seriously, how hard is it to work out multiples of 10? I don't mind when its the wrenching side of it, i.e 9/16, 7/16, 1/2 spanners / sockets.. but plate / sheet metal thicknesses and all the rest of it is absurd.
i live in England wrench on a US '56 Ford and drink Guinness by the pint that is English pints not US pints and not litres stuey
Last weekend, I was in Amsterdam (Holland), freezin' my **** off, and we went to the Heineken Brewery (where they told us that the "e"s' smile (really)). The beer (you get 2 freebies just for going in) was pretty darn good. Oh yeah, the Dutch pretty much like everyone too (these days anyway).
I'm living in London at the moment (snowing right now), and I drink my Guinness in Imperial pints too. That's 568ml, or 20 Fl Oz. A US Quart is 32 Fl Oz, isn't it? That makes a US pint 16 Fl Oz So, why does everyone have to use their version of measurements? Don't ask - that's how wars start! (It's the reason behind religion - Haha). Even metric countries don't all agree - some industries base their measurements on cm, others on mm, but at least they're only out by multiples of 10. They all say they use SI units, but it's 'their' version of SI units. It ain't going to get easier for us.
That has always fascinated me - that tires are now metric width and inches diameter I guess the accompanying wheel changeover would have been such a nightmare that the automotive industry never tackled it. Which is fine with me.... I have noticed that some wheel listings online are showing metric for the bolt patterns, even though the BP is still 5 on 4.5", 5 on 4.75" etc.
Yep, drives are in inches no matter what. Kind of ironic... True for a lot of nations about the Germans.
There were metric rim diameters - in Jaguar, european Ford Granada and i think in some other makes - There were sizes like that 200x50xTRX390 where 200x50 is width and height as normal, and rim size is 390mm - between 15" and 16". Go and buy tires for that car... Greetings from metric country from a guy that wrenches in imperial
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