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Re: Off Topic: Goin' Metric
By:Richard Hayes
Date: 2/2/2011, 10:05 am
In Response To: Off Topic: Goin' Metric (John Caldeira)

Canada converted to metric (mostly) quite a while ago, and it's a great system - very logical and easy to do conversions. The VOLKSKAYAK offsets are metric, and I find them very simple to use - much easier than inches, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc. I now think of mileage, temperature, volume and the like in metric...but...

Don't make the same mistake that we've made up north - If you're gonna go metric, go metric! The troglodytes up here managed to partially stall full conversion so they wouldn't have to fire up their second brain cell to learn something new, so building materials and some other things are still sold in Imperial (but often manufactured to metric specs) - and supermarkets are selling items using various botched blends of both systems. The result is a lot more confusion than if Canada had just had to guts to say "Look, it's metric, period - so get over it....

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Off Topic: Goin' Metric
John Caldeira -- 2/2/2011, 12:19 am
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JohnK -- 2/2/2011, 4:38 am
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Doug S -- 2/2/2011, 8:26 am
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Damian wentzel -- 2/2/2011, 9:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 1:51 am
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Richard Hayes -- 2/2/2011, 10:05 am
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Al Edie -- 2/2/2011, 11:49 am
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Mike Savage -- 2/2/2011, 1:03 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/2/2011, 4:34 pm
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John Caldeira -- 2/2/2011, 9:10 pm
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Niven Paine -- 2/3/2011, 2:07 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 2:16 am
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Niven Paine -- 2/3/2011, 4:29 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 8:46 am
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 2:21 am
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Chris Richer -- 2/3/2011, 9:29 am
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 9:54 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 2:09 am
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 2:26 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 2/7/2011, 12:44 pm
Off Topic: Goin' with Yost measurements
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/3/2011, 3:25 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 8:48 am
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Tom Yost -- 2/3/2011, 9:21 am
R/C pushrod
Doug S -- 2/3/2011, 1:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 3:29 pm
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Doug S -- 2/3/2011, 3:44 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 2/3/2011, 3:47 pm
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Doug S -- 2/3/2011, 4:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 5:43 pm
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Tom Yost -- 2/3/2011, 6:06 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 2/3/2011, 6:12 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 7:00 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 7:03 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 2/3/2011, 7:23 pm
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Tom Yost -- 2/3/2011, 7:35 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 2/3/2011, 7:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 7:48 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 7:50 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 2/7/2011, 12:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/8/2011, 12:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 2:04 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/3/2011, 3:18 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 1:53 am
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Richard Hayes -- 2/3/2011, 7:30 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 8:51 am
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Richard Hayes -- 2/3/2011, 1:33 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 3:32 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 2/7/2011, 12:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/8/2011, 12:39 am
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dave -- 2/2/2011, 12:46 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/2/2011, 4:37 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/3/2011, 12:04 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 2:23 am
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Phil Nelson -- 2/3/2011, 2:34 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 8:54 am
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Phil Nelson -- 2/3/2011, 8:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 6:59 am
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Phil Nelson -- 2/4/2011, 7:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 7:23 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 7:31 am
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Bushwacker -- 2/4/2011, 10:48 am
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Todd O -- 2/4/2011, 11:29 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 12:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 7:17 am
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Phil Nelson -- 2/4/2011, 6:54 pm
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 3:13 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 2/3/2011, 4:31 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 8:56 am
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 10:05 am
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dhwdaniels -- 2/3/2011, 5:37 am
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dhwdaniels -- 2/3/2011, 5:29 am
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Mike Savage -- 2/3/2011, 6:28 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 2/3/2011, 8:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2011, 9:00 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 2/3/2011, 9:06 am
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ancient kayaker -- 2/3/2011, 11:28 am
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Mike Savage -- 2/3/2011, 1:28 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/3/2011, 3:07 pm
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John Caldeira -- 2/3/2011, 5:56 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 2/4/2011, 12:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 7:12 am
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Mike Savage -- 2/4/2011, 1:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2011, 1:38 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/4/2011, 11:51 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2011, 5:35 am
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ancient kayaker -- 2/5/2011, 12:58 pm
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Charles Leach -- 2/5/2011, 1:53 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 2/4/2011, 11:07 am
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Roy Martin (fadedred) -- 2/4/2011, 6:56 pm
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Will Clarke -- 2/5/2011, 12:07 am
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Roy Martin (fadedred) -- 2/5/2011, 9:25 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2011, 10:32 am
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Roy Martin (fadedred) -- 2/5/2011, 11:59 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 2/7/2011, 12:30 pm
I can't read any more metric conv. posts...
Robert N Pruden -- 2/7/2011, 12:50 pm
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Kirk Fredericks - Farback Carpentry and Automation -- 2/7/2011, 1:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/7/2011, 2:07 pm
Just one more
Ian Johnson -- 2/8/2011, 4:34 am
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Palle Dam -- 2/8/2011, 5:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/9/2011, 12:43 am
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Tom Yost -- 2/14/2011, 12:39 pm