They'd be asking for a two and a half meter five by ten.  Not a problem at
all.

My thought on the difficulty with a conversion is that our cities are all
laid out on a mile by mile grid.  Phoenix is eight blocks to the mile.  At
some point the change will be made, but it will require some flexibility.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: SI vs. dumb (0 cc's Vanagon content)

>   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)
> >
>