You will constantly be switching back and forth and many of times using both at the same time. As an engineer who designs things built around the world, the most frustrating thing isn’t when it is built in the US and it is (almost) all Imperial. It also isn’t when it is built in Europe and everything is all Metric.
No, by far the most frustrating thing is when it is built in Mexico and our local teams have better access to Imperial raw material, but the local workers measure everything in metric. Such a damn mess - you have steel that is 1/2" thick, for example, but since it is Mexico we dimension it out to 12.7 mm, so nothing is ever a nice round number. And most threads are metric, but you can’t get all components in metric, so on the same piece of equipment you could have an M10x1.25 bolt and a 3/8-16 bolt.
I’m British and it’s sooo fun using older things that use strange measurements don’t even make much sense even cook books use a mix of metric and imperial even to this day
Using both is the worst solution there is.
You will constantly be switching back and forth and many of times using both at the same time. As an engineer who designs things built around the world, the most frustrating thing isn’t when it is built in the US and it is (almost) all Imperial. It also isn’t when it is built in Europe and everything is all Metric.
No, by far the most frustrating thing is when it is built in Mexico and our local teams have better access to Imperial raw material, but the local workers measure everything in metric. Such a damn mess - you have steel that is 1/2" thick, for example, but since it is Mexico we dimension it out to 12.7 mm, so nothing is ever a nice round number. And most threads are metric, but you can’t get all components in metric, so on the same piece of equipment you could have an M10x1.25 bolt and a 3/8-16 bolt.
I’m British and it’s sooo fun using older things that use strange measurements don’t even make much sense even cook books use a mix of metric and imperial even to this day
Well we can all thank your country for this mess!
I’ll add it to the very long list of complete fuck ups it’s a bit long now
That list is like 10 feet long… Or 3.048 meters long.
Sounds about right at the moment it’s probably gonna be double that by next month at the current rate