I think they all solved that problem by letting the Chinese make all the
threaded fasteners.
I broke two new bolts off trying to get 16 FT Pounds of torque when
installing a new pleasure plate. I substituted the whole set with grade 8
socket head cap screws that will definitely hang in there.
Stan Wilder

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:22:23 -0700 Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
writes:
> The metric folks don't have so much room to laugh.  I owned a bicycle
> shop
> for most of the 1970s.  We worked with American, English, German,
> French,
> Italian, and Japanese parts commonly.  Guess what?  The French,
> Italian, and
> Japanese metric fasteners were all incompatible.  The diameter and #
> threads
> per centimeter could be the same, and they still didn't fit properly
> because
> the thread pitch -- the angle on the threads -- was different.  I
> don't know
> if that is still the case, but it was then.
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin" <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
> >
> > >American drill sizes half-inch and under include 1/16-1/2 by
> 64ths, then
> > >numbers 0 (a bit under 1/4) to 80 (a bit under 0.02), then
> letters A
> (close
> > >to 1/4) to Z (close to 1/2).
> > >
> > >The metric folks tend to fall on the floor in hysterics when they
> think
> > >about this... <g>

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