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Old 28-10-2020, 01:16 PM   #131
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Originally Posted by slob View Post
oh yeah... because you can’t do serious engineering without metricating.
even when imperial was the standard you still had to use ‘thou’ for precision work, that’s inherently metrication

i’m sure the ‘smidgen’ and ‘gnat’s cock hair’ will make a comeback for precise measuring.
you won’t need the conversion table if you remember it’s 4.28 $hitloads to the £uck ton
Having owned V8 Land Rovers, I’ve still got a wide range of Whitworth, AF, BA and Metric hammers and screwdrivers in my tool box.
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