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What do you mean familiarity with American measurements? Unit conversion is a solved problem.
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
What do you mean familiarity with American measurements? Unit conversion is a solved problem.
- apendleton 5y agoI assume they meant that they default to making things that come in imperial-unit sizes (e.g., quarter-inch nuts instead of 6mm ones or whatever). It's not really practical to mix and match.
- brirec 5y ago> It's not really practical to mix and match. Tell that to my computer, with both 6-32 and M3 screws.
- kube-system 5y agoTell that to my computer, with a bunch of stripped out threads.
- dendrite9 5y agoSo both types of screws work?
- kube-system 5y agoOnly if you try hard enough
- modriano 5y agoMcM is just a warehousing and distribution company; they don't make any of the things they sell. They define products by specs rather than manufacturer (is few brand names are used in the catalog/site), which makes it much easier to stock parts of every nearly every flavor (imperial, metric, dozens of odd pipe threading standards, thousands of ASME/ANSI/DIN/other-standards-body-standards). McM absolutely mixes and matches.
- Aeolun 5y agoIt’s also a problem that shouldn’t exist any more in this day and age.
- technobabbler 5y agoTell that to NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...