[Vwdiesel] Off-topic metric vs imperial

[pmdolan at sasktel.net]

You young'uns have obviously never experienced the joy of British sports cars.  SAE heads on metric, BSW or SAE threads, Whitworth (BSW) threads on SAE, metric or BSW heads, etc. etc.  As a restorer, I have to have not only wrenches for this wretched sh1t, but taps and dies too!

----- Original Message -----
From: mikitka <mikitka at earthlink.net>
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2004 6:12 am
Subject: RE: [Vwdiesel] Off-topic metric vs imperial

> I don't forsee us here in the US changing over at all. Makes for 
> some fun.
> I have to have a complete metric set to work on the Jetta and then 
> Standardset for my 65 Impala SS. Makes for a nice combo of tools 
> in the ole' tool
> box.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Tyson Cragg
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Off-topic metric vs imperial
> 
> Yes, we do.  For all of the "elders" (anyone born before about 1967),
> Imperial was still the norm in school.  I was born in 1972, and never
> learned anything but SI metric in school, which is fine by me.
> Canada has sort of a love-hate relationship with the metric 
> system.  It was
> forcibly imposed on us by the Trudeau government in the 1970s, 
> since Canada
> was one of the last holdouts to conversion.  Today, the only 
> countries in
> the world that are not officially metric are the USA, Liberia, and 
> Burma.Despite the fact that Canada is "officially" metric, we 
> still call a 2x4 a
> 2x4, and most construction trades still use feet and inches.  If 
> you ask a
> Canadian how much they weigh, they will invariably tell you their 
> weight in
> pounds.  Everything else, though is metric, from buying fuel 
> (litres), speed
> measurement (km), meteorology (kpa and degrees C), and fuel 
> economy (L/100
> km).  Since Canada was reatively late to the metric party, it will 
> take a
> couple of generations before full conversion is complete.  Our 
> proximity to
> out holdout neighbours to the south no doubt contributes to our 
> delay in
> becoming fully "metricized".
> 
> --Tyson Cragg
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "TexasTDI" <TexasVWdriver at hotmail.com>
> To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] "Convert" for my American Friends -----(
> thesimplesolution. ).
> 
> 
> > Canada doesn't use Imperial gallons?
> >
> > Christopher J. Thornton
> > 1991 VW Jetta 2 Door 1.6 Diesel - 243k miles
> > 2000 VW Golf 1.9 TDI (turbo diesel) - 111k miles
> > AMSOIL Synthetic Lubricants Dealer #1098500
> > http://www.amsoil.com
> 
> 
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