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John Cornellier
>Just curious, are any of you in the US or elsewhere using the feet &
inches >system in manufacturing? Eric? Raise your hands.
I'd have answered more quickly, but I couldn't type with my hands in the
air.
The company I'm with now is using feet & inches, the company I worked
for before this used feet & inches. There, the manuals went to an
international audience, so measurements were given in feet & inches
first, with metric as a parenthetical follow-up.
I'm pretty sure all US defense contractors are still using feet and
inches.
>It sounds unnecessarily risky for a US company to ask a foreign
>subcontractor (with a factory tooled out in millimetres) to produce
things >specified in thirty-seconds of an inch.
This is one reason why parts are closely inspected upon arrival.
