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duncan webster	16/08/2016 18:47:13
5307 forum posts 83 photos	OK you're a reactionary!
Muzzer	16/08/2016 18:49:52
2904 forum posts 448 photos	There was a big hoohah when the Milk Marketing Board was planning to go metric (years back!). After all, how were all the old boys supposed to learn all the new conversion factors - pints, gallons, churns(?) etc. Of course, it's very simple. One tonne is 1000 litres. One litre is 1 kg. Michael - I have no idea why pound feet would be easier to imagine than Nm (or kgf.m is ou insist). I have no problem visualising 1kg (or 2.2lbs) on the end of a 1m long arm (or 39 inches, 3 feet 3" if you like). Given that the country went metric before you even were born and even I was taught metric at school back in the 60s, I would have expected the reverse situation?! Murray
DMB	16/08/2016 20:45:14
1585 forum posts 1 photos	Neil, Does your comment on 16th mean that if you received an article with drawings completely in metric dims. together with entirely metric references in the accompanying text, you would not publish it on the grounds of a likely avalanche of complaints and threats to abrogate subscriptions from the older readers? Surely not? John

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