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Exactly my thoughts, Will. I'm pretty close to picking up the 29th or 30th MH since it supposedly has much more metric info now...but I don't really need the rest. Not now and I already have a 16th edition. I'm not going CNC anytime either. Something small like that Fastener Black Book would be sweet.
16th is 1960s? Not really surprised that it doesn't have a lot of metric, I wouldn't expect you to see much until the mid-late 1970s.
I have a 14th ed which was printed in 1953, and a 24th printed in 1988. My 14th has very little metric info, mostly just a few pages describing the metric system and some conversion formulas. It does have a bunch of stuff on blacksmithing and forging that has been removed from more recent editions.
My 24th looks to have an equal amount of info on metric fasteners to what it has for standard so you don't have to go all the way to the current editions to find metric.
I am curious about the fastener book though if anyone gets it. I have the USA EBB and have found it handy, but didn't get the other.