The US government adopted it in 1975, and Reagan abolished it 1982. It's frustrating not being able to repair the tools I buy from home depot using tools boug

The US government adopted it in 1975, and Reagan abolished it 1982. It's frustrating not being able to repair the tools I buy from home depot using tools bought from home depot. I couldn't even go metric if I wanted to. They don't sell raw materials in metric. You get 4x8' sheets of plywood and something called a 2x4 which seems to have nothing to do with either measuring system. It's not even Cartesian.