Please explain what click means? military term..

[bladefixation2]

I dont think one is bad and the other is good necessarily.

Every day use I think the imperial system works a lot better

Scientific/ engineering use I think mm are easier to use than 1/16th or 1/32 inch measurements

The problem we seem to have created is one of confusion where people end up using both. I go to the hardware shop and buy a piece of 2x4 and some 6mm threaded rod, a bag of 8x2 screws and a sheet of 1500mm x 800mm plywood... to make it even worse I probably bought 500g or 1kg of 8x2 screws, and the 2x4 probably came in a 2m length!!!???

One thing I do find interesting is the different ways of measuring weight

I cant figure out why the US measures weight entirely in lbs instead of using stone and lbs??

There are three ways of measuring weight, I talk to someone in the UK and I weigh 13st 2lbs, I talk to someone in europe and I weigh 82 kgs I talk to someone from America and I weigh 182 lbs.

To make it even more interesting/ confusing in the UK we never use farenheit to measure temperature, always centigrade. To me thats one change that does make sense, a temperature scale based around the freezing and boiling point of water seems much more 'real world'

 

[Jirka_CZ]

I think both systems work well for those who are familiar w/ them. As a european a do prefer metric system - but as long as I'm interested in knives and visiting US/UK web sites and forums - lenght of blade/knife in inches became more obvious then in centimeters for me.

 

[bulgron]

The problem we seem to have created is one of confusion where people end up using both.

No kidding. I was recently putting some cheap plastic thing (made in China of course) together for my kids, and it turned out one of the screws I needed was missing. I had three where I needed to have 4. So off to the hardware store I went looking for a replacement.

Of course, at the hardware store there's never anyone around to help you when you need them. As it turns out, the screw sizing plate that they have there was missing (they moved it and I couldn't find it), so I started trying to match the screw to the available inventory.

The instructions said it was a 1-1/4 inch screw, so I'm thinking "Hmmm... Must be english sizing." Not. That was a pointless 10 minutes of looking before a store employee finally wandered by, pointed me to the sizing plate, and I found out it was a metric screw.