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)
>