Viewing post #215606 by eclayne

plantladylin said: :I see metric being used more and more and I always have to google to find the equivalent in inches, feet etc. I'm old and doubt that I could ever learn/remember the metric system ... but, I think it would sure make it easier if the entire world over used the same system.

I remember the big push in the 70's to change over to metric. There was too much push back at the time. At this point we all see plastic liter bottles, kph on our dash boards and if you use wrenches, mm more frequently than fractional inches. Very embarrassing. One of these days?