Don't need paperweights as much anymore either since the invention of air conditioning.
Cars And Metric Fasteners ?
Nov 19, 2010
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jim beam wrote in news:up-dnein8c- rbnrRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@speakeasy.net:
A miracle has happened!!!!!! I agree with you. we should have gone all metrics back in the 70s when first proposed. KB
Very odd to see a 13mm on a Japanese car, because Asians are superstitious and triskadecaphobic...
What Imperial size does 13mm translate to? It's .53", so it's a bit bigger than 1/2.
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And 11mm is almost exac
almost exac....what?
0.43307086614
I have not heard that the Japanese had anything against 13, my guess is that they just like 12 and 14. I know that the number 4 is not a good number because it sounds like their word for "death."
The Chinese like the number 8. Somehow they were able to hold the Beijing Olympics on 8-8-08 starting at 8:08. Quite remarkable!
I used to have a wrench that came in a toolkit in a Fiat. That one had a
13mm and 15mm wrench in it. That was an odd wrench...
I pretty much consider them to be interchangeable.
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