Fractional inches can suck my nuts.
Are they really that small?
Decimal inches can lick my ass.
Fractional metric can wear a skirt and give me a reach around 😍
Almost afraid to ask but what’s a reach around
where you reach around from behind and touch their front bottom
Why wouldn’t I just do it from the front though
because you are preoccupied with their rear bottom in other activities
Ok, but how am I supposed to deal with the front top then?
Use your third arm, duh.
Yeah, honestly I’m usually so tired of the imperial VS metric debate (I know metric is better and I wish the US used it, it’s just a low priority), but drill bit sizes are so stupid.
“Yeah gimme that 15/64ths bit” unhinged behavior.
I like inches, I like the size of 1/8th" it’s suitable to my needs. I like the scale on the ruler, my eyes can instantly tell what I’m measuring because each tick is a different length. It works for me, it jives with my tools, I will not buy new rulers.
I would happily throw out all my drill bits and switch to numbered ones or metric, I don’t care. Fractions for hole size is dumb. I’ll also happily throw out all my imperial sockets and wrenches and switch to one kind of nut. Having two standards of the same tool just sells more socket sets. Which was probably the point.
If only they’d made a metre equal a yard, then everyone would be bilingual and we wouldn’t have to fight. You could use the one that was appropriate for the job.
You know if they changed a meter to equal a yard, they would have to change what an amp is. Americans use amps. So it just bites us in the ass anyway.
Edit: I just remembered my definition of amp is out of date. I mean, it might still change, but not as directly as I thought.
Carful what you wish for they made my nuts suck after striping them.
11.1125 mm - 1.35 mm = 9.7625 mm
Sorry, I couldn’t resist
9-381/500mm
Fractional metric master race 😎
The damn imperial system and its weird 1/16 measurements. Why do you people hate 10 step counting?
10 isn’t the best base and I’m sick of pretending it is.
I would pick base 12. Which would you prefer?
Base 12 crew represent.
base 60 Babylonian gang where you at
Base 60 has too many symbols for the digits
Base 12 you only need two more symbols to follow 9
Yeah but it doesn’t have the same schwag as base 60
I mean base 60 would be cool and all, but it would be unwieldy
skill issue
Base 60
Hexadecimal is always best.
It doesn’t divide by 3
Granted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row.
The metric system handles thirds by just using multiples. Like, you buy a 1200 wide benchtop and then you can fit a three 400 drawers under it.
You could technically do the same in hex and the base numbers are all (x^y + x^(y+1)) which represent well.
Decimal thirds suck. One gets 33c the second gets 33c the third gets 34c
We’re just lucky that 1c is negligible
Using 12 and 16 makes for easier maths (pre-calculators). It’s easier to divide and get an integer. With easy access to calculators and highly precise measurements (especially digital systems) metric makes more sense and is easier to interpret quickly.
16 is a power of two. Half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth.
The main problem is they reduce the goddamn fraction. Let me have my 8/16th wrench.
Let me have my 8/16th wrench.
If you start a new job in a garage you will absolutely be asked to go get one.
I always liked to send new guys to the parts crib for a spool of flight line. Sometimes they’d come back with safety wire.
Because shut up. That’s why.
Why do you people feel the need to be able to convert between the thickness of a human hair and the distance between cities?
Ah yes, this bolt is .000001 kilometers wide. That’s a very useful thing you guys did. Definitely need that in every day life.
Stop, you’re making us Americans look even stupider.
Let them be! I deserve a chuckle every now and then :)
10mm is also .40’.
…Which I know because 10mm auto is the parent cartridge of .40S&W, which was just cut down to be shorter, but still uses the same projectiles.
I expect you mean .40 inches but you have abbreviated .40 feet which is more like 61/500m
Can I be that person???
AkShUaLlY An inch is not PrEcIsElY 2.5 cm but is /defined/ to be 2.54 ish cm so 0.4” is in ReAlItY 10.6 mm.
Ok im sorry. I’ll show myself out.
I believe the modern definition of the inch is precisely 25.4mm. Which makes all the Freedom units also metric.
You mean 25-2/5mm
6% off is fine with me t. engineer
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I know this cause guns. How imperial of you.
Why *metric is important
Ten mil spanner is fuckin ten mil spanner and you have three in your toolbox and only someone who was starved of oxygen at birth uses imperial spanners wtf is this 🥲
Car manufacturers in the US like to throw metric and SAE at you. Just to keep you on your toes I guess. Ironically, it’s always the wrench you DIDN’T bring with you.
Whitworth is for real men
Yeah, like fuckin Isombard Kingdom Brunel it’s not 1870 😅
Whitworth is still in day to day use! It’s the mechano thread!
This meme is old as hell
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That meme is old as hell
sir, that was lemmy shitpost
Hey! You’re both right and yet also both pointlessly arguing about it!
Just while we’re all pointing out the obvious…
that meme is old as hell
Again, you have not said anything untrue. Neither has the person you are arguing with.
Any aerospace mechanics have any comments on this matter?
Certified aircraft repairman here: That’s not an aviation bolt, so the correct tool to turn it is a pair of vice grips and a hammer.
I’m not an aerospace mechanic, but I do have some insight.
The formula in the image is incorrect. It depicts 7/16" - 10 cents = 10 mm, not plus. Notice that 7/16" indicates the gap in the wrench, and the dime makes that gap smaller.
Now that that is out of the way, it seems that a dime is 1.35 mm (I love that American currency is specified in metric). So, 7/16" - 10 cents = 9.7625 mm. So, pretty damn close to 10 mm.
Wait… 20h old and nobody picked up un the fact that the thing on the picture is actually screw and you’d need a screwdriver for that?
Like I’m going two weld two dimes into a cross for the screw slot when I have a wrench already.
A hex cap screw
