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Subject: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 46, Issue 83
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:11:11 -0400

Digital cameras should be worked on with metric tools and analog cameras
with SAE standard US tools. This is a well known fact.

An English racer you work on with metric.
A Schwinn you work on with SAE standard US tools

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Bill and Sue Pearce <bs.pearce at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:55:50 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 46, Issue 83
> 
> 
> The biggest missed opportunity in getting the U.S. to adopt the metric
> system was 
> Oh, crap, is this stuff starting again? Why, oh why, when money is tight,
> should our government have to expend bazillions of dollars on this fools
> errand? What is to be gained? Doesn't what we have work just fine now? So
> others  use another system, what's that to me? I never saw the reason to be
> like everyone else.
> 
> 
> There is another potential opportunity right now. Gasoline should be sold 
> by
> the liter rather than by the gallon. A $4 price for gas sounds like highway
> robbery. A $1 price per liter sounds almost reasonable. That's much cheaper
> than a Starbuck's Grande coffee.
> This sounds like  something you can market to politicians. Good luck!
> 
> 
> By the way, anyone who does any mechanical work on automobiles already has
> to have a full set of metric tools.
> Sure, they have either one or both, depending on what they work. Simple. I
> don't think anyone is going to bring about a program to get me a MF digital
> system so I can increase my business.
> 
> I'm reminded of what my father, an aeronautical engineer responsible of
> design elements in several major airplanes said on the subject. He was used
> to working in inches and thousandths. "I don't want to lose accuracy!"
> 
> Bill Pearce
> 
> 
> 
> 
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