Why are Tip diameters referred to in millimeters?
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Man, I must be getting old. I remember referring to tip sizes in inches. 1/2", 9/16", and 5/8" were the most common around here.
I always thought the whole metric system crapola was a communist plot. Still do.
I was already out of school and working when it started. We began getting more and more things that were made in Japan. Or China. Or somewhere else in metric land.
Then what happens? It breaks and you have to fix it. So you have to go and buy all these metric tools to work on it.
So for a while, if you were working on a foreign car you got out the metric tools. American you got out the standard.
That was bad enough, but now they mix 'em all up on the same piece of equipment! On my John Deere tractors one bolt might be a 12mm and the next is a 5/8", so you have to get out both sets.
This is meant to drive down American productivity and keep the average worker poor from having to buy so many tools.
Communist plot I tell you!
I always thought the whole metric system crapola was a communist plot. Still do.
I was already out of school and working when it started. We began getting more and more things that were made in Japan. Or China. Or somewhere else in metric land.
Then what happens? It breaks and you have to fix it. So you have to go and buy all these metric tools to work on it.
So for a while, if you were working on a foreign car you got out the metric tools. American you got out the standard.
That was bad enough, but now they mix 'em all up on the same piece of equipment! On my John Deere tractors one bolt might be a 12mm and the next is a 5/8", so you have to get out both sets.
This is meant to drive down American productivity and keep the average worker poor from having to buy so many tools.
Communist plot I tell you!
The rest of the world uses metric ye savage.
{edit: too busy flying. This has been answered a plenty}
This has to be the reason. And more specifically, out of France. Had they been invented in England, we probably would be referring to tips in fractional inches.
And a straight post from you? The world did get shaken up, didn't it?
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Did you know, Cornerman, that originally, when cuing right or left on the cue ball, the British wanted to call it English, but decided that that was a bit self-serving so called it spin, instead?
I heard that when I was in Paris. :smile:
I'm calling bullshit, Tramp.
The British tend to call it 'side'.
Canucks tend to call it 'siding'.
But since the US of A started calling it 'english'.......
...'bout 4 outta 5 of us Hosers call it english also.
You our big bro, mang.....:wave3:
No, no, no. Side is what the Brits have with their fish. As in a 'side' of chips. :grin:
Screw is backspin.
Because you can't just change the mm to in. If you did, instead of a 13mm tip, you would be stuck using a 13 in. tip. Who wants that monstrosity hanging off the end of their ferrule?
I've been across the pond a few times....so I tried to talk 'Mid-Atlantic' to a player...
....I told him to hit the cue-ball ( they like to say 'the white') with right-hand SPIN ....
....at three o'clock.
...he asks "What do you mean?"
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Manufacturers
Tips come from the manufacturers that way.
5/12 or .512 = 13mm, a millimeter being .039
Like a men's shoe size being 8 1/2 easier than asking for a size 1ft and 1/4 LOL :grin-square:
Tips come from the manufacturers that way.
5/12 or .512 = 13mm, a millimeter being .039
Like a men's shoe size being 8 1/2 easier than asking for a size 1ft and 1/4 LOL :grin-square:
5/12 is .416. Which is not .512 or 13mm. However, .512 is indeed 13mm lol
KMRUNOUT
So, the one thing I don't understand about the metric system:
They measure distance in meters, and a kilometer is a convenient distance (0.62 miles).
But when they get to 1000 Kilometers, they do not switch to 1 megameter !?!. Why ?
