Thread: Seating depth - who bothers?

Originally Posted by Cyclist

"the Speights school of advanced ballistic research"

I always recon the whole "few thou" or "40 thou" thing is interesting, NZ went metric in 1976 as far as I know? Are people REALLY measuring everything in inches or just saying what they hear on US forums?

Cyclist
As an engineer who has lived through the imperial/metric swap over I find myself stuck between two worlds.

I'm completely at home with inches/mm PSI/Bar FtLbs/Nm etc ... lots of toolroom machinery in NZ especially lathes/mills and surface grinders are still calibrated in inches, some of the older press tooling and injection dies were manufactured to imperial drawings and when they need repair you work from those drawings.
We still stock metric and impreial drills, Taps, dies, cutters, dowels, cap screws etc.

When it comes to money however I'm lost in the imperial world and think only in metric .... I guess thats because my first pay packet was in dollars and cents and has been ever since.

You can still by bar stock, bearings and seals in both imperial & metric sizes.

When measuring with a Very Near I still read off the imperial scale first and have both imperial and metric micrometers in my tool box and use which ever is appropriate to what ever the scale is calibrated in the machine I'm using at the time.

So to answer your question, Yes some people still work and measure in the imperial scale.

Cheers
Pete