Yet another Metric vs Freedom Unit Video

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This is another good one:


I didn't know a 1793 attempt to go metric was first thwarted by pirates attacking the ship bring over metric measurement tools....
Then "Pyramid Bros" lobbying Congress.

The best part about the video (sorry you have to go to YT to watch it, but it's worth it) is in England, where the car tells you MPG but fuel level is in liters.
 
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Hmmm. Thats why I dont watch YT as a rule. The section in England was clearly staged, and in my experience (as a Brit) - gave the wrong impression.
 
I always roll my eyes whenever some YouTuber makes an issue with metric or imperial measurements - especially when they frame it as imperial being some sort of "American Pride" kind of thing. For decades now, I've worked in fields where we used both - and many times they were mixed together (like for coffee, our basic "recipe" is 2 grams of coffee per finished ounce of beverage). So when I got more into woodworking, using both seemed natural and easy. Some projects I'll do entirely in metric, others in imperial. On my bandsaw rebuild, it's mostly imperial but when I needed to cut down the base, it was more precise to calculate the cuts in metric. Whichever works: works.

But those people who want to make it some sort of patriotic issue, I just tell them they've been using metric their entire lives and thank them for sharing their 5/64 cents on the matter...
 
I've heard about the history of the standard being lost, but a lot of the associated history in the video was really interesting. Great video!
 
I use both, well actually all three.....(3 decimal point Imperial, instead of fractions)
It purely depends on the scale of the measurement. In the large projects that I make, it is in inches. Part of what our engineering department guys do is convert the Architectural blueprints into shop drawings. This includes the conversion from feet and inches to inches only.
Yet, at the same time, I pretty much use all of my Festool stuff in its native metric. In the next moment there may be some calculator action, which is decimal, as is the computerized panel saw.
 
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