pfft.. any beat a 36" cressent wrench? It weighs enough to make it almost useless.

 

To pick a nit, actually a metric ton or tonne is EXACTLY 1000 kilograms which is 2,204.6 pounds. Now 4.6 pounds isn't that much until you have a ship load.

Edwin

 

I know the 36" cast pipe wrenches do. Carried one, by hand, for almost a mile. THAT'LL get you sore. I was about 14 at the time, too. Wasn't doing that because I wanted to. Had to walk out to get it too. Not just bring it back.

 

could just be some odd military item too...

i've seen some military spec 5/8" drive tools. there's an odd one for ya.

i can work in both metirc and sae. at home i use both, at work, everything is sae [except for the injector/pump wire holding screws, they use a 5mm socket]

heck, at work, my 1 1/2" snapon ring wrenches have the 1-1/2" and 38mm on them...

 

Picked nit duly noted...

To quote one of our now retired old plant machinists concerning very small errors, "Who's gonna' measure it babe?"...
Actually the error of that quick conversion is still less than the real world accuracy of our expensive mass-flowmeters used for batch loading 35,000lbs of product into a tank trailer!

Keith

 

Actually, if you're talking precision, 1,000 kg to 2,204.6 lbs is quite the inaccuracy. Where the 1,000 has a single significant figure, the 2,204.6 has a whopping 5. If measured out to this ration, the corrected range of poundage that would equal 1000 kgs would be plus or minus 500 or so pounds, which is quite inaccurate. Therefore, using your conversion ratio, a 100% accurate system could be overloading a container by about 25%...

For the love of God, your perfect conversion factor could cause mail bags loaded onto a A-380 to cause a cataclysmic crash, killing hundreds.

Now the correct ratio would be 1,000.0 kgs to 2,204.6 lbs. Glad I caught that before somebody died.

 

I am really surprised nobody has mentioned the ubiquitous RCH series for measuring extremely fine distances.......

Moderators, please forgive me, and bless the starving pygmies down on New Guinea....

 

Maybe so for a HairBus, but if you loaded them onto a Boeing 747-xxx they would keep flying!

K.

 

Well, I can honestly say I have never seen a metric ratchet?!!?!

I have to use standard and metric everyday at work and it is not a problem........I grew up in the generation in Canada where we were taught both systems of measurement so it has never been a problem for me but I have to laugh at the young guys that don't know standard and the old guys that don't know metric - it can be interesting watching them work together! As for metric not being useful, I would have to disagree.......since every unit of measurement is separated by multiples of 10, it is a matter of moving a decimal point to the right or left to convert between units. There are also more units of measurement that can allow you to be more accurate no matter what you are trying to measure.

As for ease of use, it obviously comes down to what you are used to.......If you don't know metric it won't be as easy to use as the standard system you spent your whole life using, but learning metric is much easier than learning standard.

For those who don't know: 9/16" = 14mm

 

Well... almost.

Edwin

 

I've found most metric sockets and wrenches fit a lot of the SAE stuff better which is why I have mostly metric tools.

 

Yup! 6 point sockets work pretty durned good on either!

K.

 

Umm....

 

Originally posted by dually drooler
So you just have to have a fits-all! The crescent company makes a nice set! 4",6",8",10",12" and a couple of big boys 15" & 18".

Hey and if you turn it over you will find out you are already in the game because on the backside of the inch Crescent wrench you got the METRIC one also...

Ever try to remove a screw that looks PHILLIPS when it is a REED PRINCE..
Jim...

 

Us Canucks learn metric in school, thats fine, next time someone says that metric is easier, ask them how tall they are and how heavy they are. I bet they will tell you in feet and pounds. No one knows how many Kg they are or cm tall.