Re: imperial (driving?) AFNAC guys 'n gals...

[Audial@aol.com]

I was on a website the other day devoted to the people who manufacture lathes
and other machine tools in miniature for people who do small craft work or
micromachining as artwork (like the guy that built the working pushrod v-8
that's 4" long).  The opinion of one of the machinists at the company was
that the imperial system was more convenient for their uses because .001" is
a tolerance that you can achieve with a miniature lathe by hand and doesn't
convert evenly into metric.  There were also a couple of other
anthropomorphic justifications.  

Is this true?  Do machinists still work primarily in the imperial system even
in countries where metric is the standard?

Best Wishes,

Alex