Are weapons made in metric or standard system?

Toyota helped America convert to metric even when Americans didn't
have a clue.

Before they bragged about 350 Chevy motors.

On 4/2/11 6:49 PM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser
Philosopher wrote:

So did VW. Metric has been the unit of choice for scientists for a long
time, though. I got my first metric toolkit to work on an old Bug when I
was 15.

Jeff

TibetianMonkeyCrap hasn't got a clue, and you should resist the temptation
to feed the troll that he is. That's one.

Your VW was built in a metric country that used then and now, metric
measurments. VW using metric nuts and bolts has nothing at all to do with
helping America learn the metric system. That's two.

TibetianMonkeyCrap is confusing "helping America convert" with the ISO
standard that only made a huge mess of automotive repair from the
perspective on nuts and bolts. Toyota was not a driving force, it was only a
forced participant. Toyota is a GM property, much the same that Mazda is a
Ford property. (Perhaps "property" is a poor choice of terms, but the idea
holds just the same.)

As for the mess that is the ISO standard in automobiles, I once did a
suspension change on a '96 Jeep Wrangler. The mess was that there was a mix
of metric and fraction buts and bolts, and several instances of a metric nut
sharing the other end of a fraction bolt. It was a royal pain in the ass to
work on that Jeep because it required every wrench in the box to do the job
we were doing. It should have only taken metric, or only taken fraction, but
not both -- and certainly not on opposite ends of the same fastener.

Thank the ISO for this