I wonder if the when the US stops burning dinosaurs in it's cars, and is fully electric, if the electric car chargers are going to work in the metric kilowatt hours, or if they are going to have them calibrated in Horsepower per fortnights or something...
@quixoticgeek Should be in Furlongs per Fortnight, had a friend at college who answered and exam question in those units, just because it said "Use preferred units"
@quixoticgeek He was a bit of a smart arse though.
@Porcia I got told off in high school woodworking class when I produced a cutting list with items such as '4" x 9cm x 12mm'
@Porcia in college I failed one test in electronics, I challenged the result, and the lecturer asked me to show my process (I had written all my workings out originally too). So I went through, keeping everything as fractions, and then only converting to a decimal number at the end. He had done it with decimals all the way, carrying floating point errors all the way through. I got 100% on appeal.
@quixoticgeek I grew up on both Imperial and metric, at college we used Imperial in the engineering shop, and I can visualize 3 thou as that the thickness of a green Rizla. At uni though, it was all SI metric units.
@Porcia I am fortunate that the lathes I have access to are all metric. If I have to make something with a ¼-20 thread, I'll use a tap/die. Everything else I'll stick to metric.
@quixoticgeek I have a problem visualizing in Microns if I'm using an imperial Lathe.