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Being tool poor I am always on the lookout for cheap tools. Today I found them. 2 dial indicators and a test indicator for $10 each. Brand name too. But then I looked close and they are that funny European measuring system that will never catch on. M m m m m metric. Now I need to drink something to get the taste out of my mouth.
So, avoiding the debate on which is the better system, (we all know it is the inch anyways) my machines have knobs and graduations in inch and I don't see a DRO in the future any time soon, how bad an idea is to mix inch and metric? I mean, other than the loss of money I will suffer when they finally admit defeat and convert back to the imperial system, what ill could I suffer by buying these m m m m metric tools and putting them in the bottom draw of the tool box? I mean who knows, someday I may actually need to measure something to .02 of the cube root of the volume of a gram of water. But what are the chances of that? I suspect they are the cause of spontaneous shop combustion but have no proof. Seriously, they knock the imperial system as being difficult to convert and based on something as arbitrary as the measurement of body part of a man who rose to power through divine means. They based theirs on what they imagined would be a round fraction of something they had no way to accurately measure.
But seriously, will cats and dogs live peacefully together if I give these tools a home? Or will chaos consume my meager shop as I furiously multiply divide by 25.4 and wonder why my parts never measure up to spec?
So, avoiding the debate on which is the better system, (we all know it is the inch anyways) my machines have knobs and graduations in inch and I don't see a DRO in the future any time soon, how bad an idea is to mix inch and metric? I mean, other than the loss of money I will suffer when they finally admit defeat and convert back to the imperial system, what ill could I suffer by buying these m m m m metric tools and putting them in the bottom draw of the tool box? I mean who knows, someday I may actually need to measure something to .02 of the cube root of the volume of a gram of water. But what are the chances of that? I suspect they are the cause of spontaneous shop combustion but have no proof. Seriously, they knock the imperial system as being difficult to convert and based on something as arbitrary as the measurement of body part of a man who rose to power through divine means. They based theirs on what they imagined would be a round fraction of something they had no way to accurately measure.
But seriously, will cats and dogs live peacefully together if I give these tools a home? Or will chaos consume my meager shop as I furiously multiply divide by 25.4 and wonder why my parts never measure up to spec?