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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Forced Metric? Sep 8^th, 2018 at 8:32pm	Print Post
	I heard they are not going to make yard-sticks any longer!


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olderthansome KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 131 Location: Michigan Joined: Mar 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 9:40am	Print Post
	Oh dear, oh dear. Perhaps it's time to fluff his pillow a bit. He seems to be drifting a little off center.


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Dick Hosmer KCA Official Member Offline Collector of Springfield Arms, 1865-1915 Posts: 1862 Location: Northern California Joined: Nov 20^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #2 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 2:31pm	Print Post
	Why would they want to make them longer? Gotta love our English language.


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Capt. Frank KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 153 Location: Dover, Delaware Joined: Jun 13^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #3 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 3:32pm	Print Post
	Longer? If they make them 0.3 feet longer, they would be metric!


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olderthansome KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 131 Location: Michigan Joined: Mar 10^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #4 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 4:23pm	Print Post
	And then, of course, they'd not be yard-sticks any longer so, thus, we've come full-circle.


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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #5 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 7:25pm	Print Post
	Speaking of coming full circle, this has made my head spin! LOL


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #6 - Sep 9^th, 2018 at 10:35pm	Print Post
	Paul: You better go to the Michigan Antique Arms Collectors Show in Novi, Sept. 15th & 16th, and get your bearings.


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Capt. Frank KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 153 Location: Dover, Delaware Joined: Jun 13^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #7 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 1:39pm	Print Post
	If the bearings are properly greased, he may just spin faster.


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #8 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 1:42pm	Print Post
	A little metric trivia: meter is one 10 millionth the distance between the north pole and the equator on a line running through Paris! Makes you wonder how many meter sticks they wore out measuring that? Officially adopted be the US in 1866. First meter rods to be used as standards delivered to the US, England and France were not really as good as they should have been, if I had to guess England would have gotten the short one. 25.4 CM per inch is the better conversion, more accurate than 39.37 inches to a meter. Our most accurate machine has a resolution of .0005mm or 2 millionths of an inch in the X axis. I hear people say you can work closer in MM, but each unit of measurement can have more decimal points added for more precision. We make lots of metric parts using inches in our drawings and programing not because it is more accurate but because I am hard headed and do not want to change. Don't forget to note the retraction/correction in the next post!
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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #9 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 3:06pm	Print Post
	Fred - In Michigan, we are not as accurate and 25.4 CM is considered 10 inches! Paul Steinmayer was in the Navy. It is easy to understand his confusion! Millimeters or Millimetres ... ? Caliber or Calibre .... ? The Navy messes with people's Minds ..... and Marines get it double!


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #10 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 6:18pm	Print Post
	FredC, will stay after class, for "Remedial Decimal Instruction", per Sister Mary Measure.


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #11 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 6:48pm	Print Post
	Should have been MM. Instead of correcting it and everyone trying to figure out the joke, I will let it stand. Probably another reason I do not use metric, too easy to make a decimal mistake. Hardly ever mistake an inch for a thousandth.


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butlersrangers KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 6330 Location: Michigan Bi-Peninsular&Proud Joined: Oct 7^th, 2009	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #12 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 7:23pm	Print Post
	Years ago, I was measuring an outdoor site with a "Stanley" 100 foot steel Reel-Tape, that my Grandfather had used in northern Michigan copper mines. I was getting bizarre results and things were not quite lining up with my partner's measurements, that had been quickly done with a regular measuring tape. I was slow to realize, that instead of 12 inches to the foot, the markings on my 'Grandpa's tape' were divided into increments of ten to the foot! Mine Engineers measured with a decimal one foot scale. Each increment was 1/10th of a foot, instead of one inch!
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psteinmayer KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 2391 Location: Ypsilanti, Michgan Joined: Aug 30^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #13 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 9:51pm	Print Post
	butlersrangers wrote on Sep 9^th, 2018 at 10:35pm: Paul: You better go to the Michigan Antique Arms Collectors Show in Novi, Sept. 15th & 16th, and get your bearings. You gonna be there Chuck? I may just breeze on in and say hello!


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Capt. Frank KCA Forum Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 153 Location: Dover, Delaware Joined: Jun 13^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Forced Metric? Reply #14 - Sep 11^th, 2018 at 2:23pm	Print Post
	I am retired from the USGS, we made all measurements using tenths and hundreds of a foot, this is also used for surveying.


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