From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 12:18:12 PDT
Glen...I like that saying...that should be the motto of the fight
against the metric system. We are not Brits (no harm meant) nor
Europeans and we should travel our own destiny...not try to follow in
someone elses foot prints. We have kinda led the pack for a good period
of time and we let the higher ups that probably spend 99% of their time
in a big city cripple the nation with this metric stupidity. Someone
needs to get the ball rolling to stop this! Or convert to it completely.
I think the wrench turners of America should get mad as hell and not
take it. The young mechanic of today is the youth of yesterday that we
wondered how they were gonna make it in this world and they know no
different. We should show them we care and put an end to it one way or
another. Fred Martin, Greenfield, Ohio
Glen Bedel wrote:
> ..it's seems American History is only relevant in text books and not in
> practice.
>
> "Keep America beautiful...say no to metrics."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Martin [mailto:mung@in-touch.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] The metric system in America
>
>
> Would anyone know the status of metrics in America? Is there a deadline
> to convert fully sometime in the future? Does anyone think that metrics
> have helped or hindered the professional mechanic down to the home
> mechanic? Looks like if some manufacturer in America made a vehicle with
> all American sized bolts and nuts and a frontend that tilted
> forward...it would outsell the rest of them. It appears that the reason
> we like to work on military vehicles and old tractors and old cars is
> the fact that they haven't been sabotaged by the metric system. Most
> every organization in the country has been on strike at least once...why
> not the lowly mechanic? The strength of America in the past has been her
> manufacturing power...that also includes the maintenance of all this...
> if we have all this manufacturing power but are hindered in doing
> maintenance on it... looks like the system we have now is helping us go
> down the drain faster because apparently politicians instead of
> engineers have control of what makes America roll...in other
> words...what makes us efficient. This situation can be corrected...but
> it has to be started by someone in Washington D. C. It would be my
> fondest desire to see this happen before I pass on. I wish some of you
> fellows in the right positions would get the ball rolling on this...it
> surely needs to be done, probably as an emergency bill. want to get in
> on helping America and doing your part? Heres an opportunity. If you
> don't, pass this along, maybe someone else will pick up the ball.
> Respectfully, Fred Martin, Greenfield, Ohio
>
> Everette wrote:
>
>>Fred
>>
>>you wrote""
>>
>>" But...the manufacturers would probably design every other thing we
>>work on to require a special wrench then. The manufacturers want to
>>totally eliminate the home mechanic by making all modern vehicles as
>>hard to work on as possible..............""
>>
>>That is for sure
>>
>>The special ended screwdriver you have to have to even change a
>>headlight lamp, as an example.
>>
>>I have a 76 GMC that I have (for real) driven in excess of 800,000
>>miles, changed just about every thing on it at least one time - and
>>these changes have introduced metric stuff to it.
>>
>>By profession I sell and repair high pressure washers and 99+% of the
>>pumps are made outside of north America , so they have almost 100%
>>metric fasteners - kicker is "almost" even these have some "Standard"
>>. So I have to carry almost twice and many wrenches as really needed.
>>
>>
>>
>>Everette
>>
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