metric to english conversion

[Gary Derian]

Politics is one thing but really, any system of measurement works fine as
long as everyone is using it.  My biggest problem with the customary system
we use is goofy things like tablespoons and fluid ounces.  When mixing weed
killer the instructions say two tablespoons per gallon, but I my measuring
cup is in ounces.  Now was that 2 tbs per oz or 2 oz per tbs?  If everything
was liters and milliliters this situation would be very easy.

NPT and SAE are just fine but I dislike the mix of metric and non metric.

Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>
>
> Given all of the bureaucratic nonsense that ISO has come up with, I'm just
> as glad for us to have a system of units that is insulated from idiotic
> French bureaucracy and "world" politics!!  IMO , USS, SAE, and NPT thread
> standards are generally better designs that ALL of the various DIN, JIS,
> French, and Italian metric thread junk. Also, the inch (and both numerical
> and decimal fractions thereof) are VERY much more practical scale units
for
> machine work and tolerancing than mms. ever will be, thank you very much.
>
> Regards, Greg
>