Now if only there were more shops in North America that had metric stock material. I'm tired of having to convert all over the damn place because finding metric plate is practically impossible. Oh you want 10 mm? How about 9.525 and you'll like it. 20 mm? Fuck you, you get 19.05 instead.
Oh and I almost forgot, god do I love having 5 different units for pressure. I use Pascals for my calcs, but most of the mech engineers I work with use PSI, and because I work with vacuum engineers, I also get to deal with torr/mmHg and mbar. God I fucking hate it
stock material is usually not a big deal, because most stock is not truly flat and square so it has to be faced first anyway. If you are trying to find ground plate, yeah that can be an issue. I just design for 3/8 if I need 10mm, etc. The trouble is finding metric tooling. The same thing in metric can be 2x.
As a fellow American, I also enjoy metrification in daily life. My car thermometer is in Celsius. (The speedometer isn't. It's analog.) My fitness tracker is in km. My food scale for cooking is in g.
OP, please continue the good work of metrification and finding satisfying patterns.
I haven't gotten to intuitively understanding km, since all road signs are the nonsensical mile (5280ft doesn't even make sense in the realm of imperial units). But km are a very easy conversion.
But at work when someone mentions something in thousandths of an inch, i reply back "so that's about xx microns". I've done it long enough that at small distances i can convert in my head.
Wayyyy back when, I worked in printing. So many things would be easier in metric. Paper cuts in fractional inches, but the cutting machines worked in decimal inches. So frustrating. Metric forever.
As for km vs. miles, I'm getting there. On my bike, I have a good handle on distances in metric. But in a car? Sorta.
I need to do more metrification. I use a gram-based kitchen scale, and have used 24hr time (I mean obviously, there's 24 hours in a day, what kind of madman thinks 2 twelves is better there) for years. But I still haven't switched from F to C. Distance is back and forth.
It's hard when you have to constantly translate into freedom units for the people around you!
I changed the temperature units on my phone so when I'm talking with my language tutor I don't have to try to convert on the fly when she asks about the weather. I'm hoping that I'll develop a better sense of what different temperatures in C feel like, the way I have for F.
I recently (like... six days ago) moved from the US to Europe, and I'm the only one in my family who immediately switched to metric and celsius, and I refuse to convert for them
I (european) watch a lot of YouTube and I've noticed that in last 5 years american youtubers using more and more metric. Is that something that you guys also noticed?
I credit it to the rise of 3D printing. All 3d printers and slicers default to mm. I started using metric when I was working for a 3d printer manufacturer and was told "once you go metric, you never go back"
I grew up in the southeastern US, where it's warm and very humid. I've been living in a high altitude area for almost 2 years and don't want to go back. I prefer mountains to beaches.
I'm in the US but had to learn metrics because I was a machinist. We used both and learned to convert between them. So I always lucked out when it came to metrics.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
If only all Americans did this...
I do it at work too. I'm an engineer and try to spec metric fasteners, etc. There are lots of legacy parts still in inches.
As an aspiring engineer, thank you.
Trying to do anything in imperial is a pain in the ass
Now if only there were more shops in North America that had metric stock material. I'm tired of having to convert all over the damn place because finding metric plate is practically impossible. Oh you want 10 mm? How about 9.525 and you'll like it. 20 mm? Fuck you, you get 19.05 instead.
Oh and I almost forgot, god do I love having 5 different units for pressure. I use Pascals for my calcs, but most of the mech engineers I work with use PSI, and because I work with vacuum engineers, I also get to deal with torr/mmHg and mbar. God I fucking hate it
isnt pascal just related to bar tho? it was 100 or 100000 pascal equal 1 bar or something... i wouldn't count them as two
So it is. I thought it was 101.3 kPa, which is atmospheric pressure at STP, but was mistaken.
stock material is usually not a big deal, because most stock is not truly flat and square so it has to be faced first anyway. If you are trying to find ground plate, yeah that can be an issue. I just design for 3/8 if I need 10mm, etc. The trouble is finding metric tooling. The same thing in metric can be 2x.
As a fellow American, I also enjoy metrification in daily life. My car thermometer is in Celsius. (The speedometer isn't. It's analog.) My fitness tracker is in km. My food scale for cooking is in g.
OP, please continue the good work of metrification and finding satisfying patterns.
I haven't gotten to intuitively understanding km, since all road signs are the nonsensical mile (5280ft doesn't even make sense in the realm of imperial units). But km are a very easy conversion.
But at work when someone mentions something in thousandths of an inch, i reply back "so that's about xx microns". I've done it long enough that at small distances i can convert in my head.
Wayyyy back when, I worked in printing. So many things would be easier in metric. Paper cuts in fractional inches, but the cutting machines worked in decimal inches. So frustrating. Metric forever.
As for km vs. miles, I'm getting there. On my bike, I have a good handle on distances in metric. But in a car? Sorta.
That's my favorite temperature. It's Guy Pooping!
He's really going through it too that's a diabolical shit
At first I was going to ask you to explain, then I looked again and will never not see this.
I need to do more metrification. I use a gram-based kitchen scale, and have used 24hr time (I mean obviously, there's 24 hours in a day, what kind of madman thinks 2 twelves is better there) for years. But I still haven't switched from F to C. Distance is back and forth.
It's hard when you have to constantly translate into freedom units for the people around you!
I changed the temperature units on my phone so when I'm talking with my language tutor I don't have to try to convert on the fly when she asks about the weather. I'm hoping that I'll develop a better sense of what different temperatures in C feel like, the way I have for F.
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But what is it in FrEEdum uNIt?
I recently (like... six days ago) moved from the US to Europe, and I'm the only one in my family who immediately switched to metric and celsius, and I refuse to convert for them
I (european) watch a lot of YouTube and I've noticed that in last 5 years american youtubers using more and more metric. Is that something that you guys also noticed?
I credit it to the rise of 3D printing. All 3d printers and slicers default to mm. I started using metric when I was working for a 3d printer manufacturer and was told "once you go metric, you never go back"
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I'm upset the snow is melting. That's probably not something you are concerned with.
Instead of snow who is melting is me
I grew up in the southeastern US, where it's warm and very humid. I've been living in a high altitude area for almost 2 years and don't want to go back. I prefer mountains to beaches.
Can't unsee that as a fella squatting and taking a shit.
You mean freedumb units?
I'm in the US but had to learn metrics because I was a machinist. We used both and learned to convert between them. So I always lucked out when it came to metrics.
https://preview.redd.it/f76za7v3zxcg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba5b8774598175f4d3f5c0dde6aabd1319e7e9d0
this is cold here
-4° looks like a guy sitting on the toilet.