How embarrassing

[davidpbest]

They never put a man on the moon! (ignore everything bad about the imperial system)

All JPL project designs are now done in metric. They do use imperial at times for certain standard products that are specified in imperial such as fasteners, gauge thickness of metals, etc.

 

[Just for fun]

All my design work has been in metric for over two decades now. I often put imperial dimensions on my drawings for the convenience of clients, such as the attached. Thankful Fusion will output drawings annotated in both systems.

I didn't know that. I'll have to check that out later tonight when I get back in the house.

 

[7milesup]

I believe that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) utilizes metric measurements as its baseline. I, too, grew up when the US tried to convert, but too many old geezers stuck in their ways. Who remembers all the road signs in MPH and KMH?

https://www.nist.gov/feature-stories/why-you-need-standards/measurement-standards

https://www.nist.gov/image/nist4wattbalancejpg

 

[Reddinr]

...but still doing woodworking in imperial...

I do woodworking in a unitless system. It's called the "too short", "too long" and "close enough" system.

 

[woodchucker]

I do woodworking in a unitless system. It's called the "too short", "too long" and "close enough" system.

I try to do woodworking with a knife mark off the other pieces as much as possible.
The other day I needed to cut a face frame stile (outter most). I measured the one side, 1.75 measured it twice then walked over to the tablesaw and set it to 1.5 (dumb ****). Which is why I prefer to gang cut, or set a stop, or use a knife to set my length etc.

Because you can't fix too short easily. In my case I rejoined the cut off back, and re-cut it. Now if I can only find the glue to put the metal back together

 

[Dhal22]

Superior method of measurement???? Only to the rest of the world, WTF do they know?

Some countries use the metric system, other countries have been to the moon..............

 

[davidpbest]

I try to do woodworking with a knife mark off the other pieces as much as possible.
The other day I needed to cut a face frame stile (outter most). I measured the one side, 1.75 measured it twice then walked over to the tablesaw and set it to 1.5 (dumb ****). Which is why I prefer to gang cut, or set a stop, or use a knife to set my length etc.

If you ever decide you want to upgrade to 0.1mm crosscut accuracy, let me know. LOL

And let me know if you'd like a Tee.

 

[Christianstark]

I have been intermingling imperial and metric in all of my projects. I’d love to go just metric, but most of the materials I source are imperial. I prefer metric fasteners, and those are easy enough to order. The Quorn project I’m doing is pretty much all imperial so far, as the plans are mainly drawn to imperial.

 

[Winegrower]

The Hemingway tailstock holder drawings are an example of a mess. Screw threads are a mix of metric and imperial, dimensions are in decimal inches with an occasional fraction like 7/32 thrown in. It’s not a problem, but an annoyance.

 

[Provincial]

I try to do woodworking with a knife mark off the other pieces as much as possible.
The other day I needed to cut a face frame stile (outter most). I measured the one side, 1.75 measured it twice then walked over to the tablesaw and set it to 1.5 (dumb ****). Which is why I prefer to gang cut, or set a stop, or use a knife to set my length etc.

Because you can't fix too short easily. In my case I rejoined the cut off back, and re-cut it. Now if I can only find the glue to put the metal back together

It is called a welder.