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I did my 1 1/2" pipe + uniseals and it took me 1 second to get them through and I did not have to cut the pipe. Very strange that the 1 1/4" was so difficult.

Yep, I think the 1 1/4 is either the wrong size OR the hole size listed on the chart is incorrect. Perhaps its a metric size thats been renamed.

Why must USA be so arrogant about switching to metric? One generation is all it would take. And during that time, more jobs are created converting textbooks and such to only metric. Superstores could have more shelf space for the same brands other tools. And it would be one global step completed towards global unity. muhahahahh. But seriously, agree on metric, we confuse schoolchildren enough with time.

Time: 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day (and none of them match anywhere in the world), 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year (or 365.242199 days per year), what happened to base 10???

How would a metric time system work? That 365 days thing just messes everything up.

10 "hours" per day? seconds, decaseconds and kilaseconds?
If you did 10 months, you'd have 36 days in a month (and a 5 day long party at the end of the year? )?
10 day weeks? That would be a long work week...

I've seen various metric time systems tried in various SciFi stories, and have yet to find one that seems to work well. I'm all for it, though!

I'm not saying it would be easy to change the 365 thing. But internet beattime was the best idea I've seen. I mean seriously if you think about it: right now is right NOW everywhere in the universe. It should not be 9am here, 10 am there, 12pm somewhere else....on the SAME planet even! Right now is still right now if you are on this planet or in another galaxy (pending time shifts, other astrological phenomena, etc). Everyone within at least our own solar system should say that "right now" is the same time. If I'm going to meet someone online at 6am, we should all be able to meet....at 6am...not 6am for me, 7am for someone else, etc.

I got caught in the middle of the change to metric here in Aus ,, I think I was about 10 years old ,, initially confusing but all quickly made sense ..... my mother struggled with it a bit ,, but as soon as she figured half a kilo at the butchers was VERY close to a pound she was happy:) You could but little stickers for the car speedo etc.
Gee I'd be happy if i could just get Americans to stop calling Prawns by the name Shrimp and to see that the word Basil has no "y "
in it ,, so is NOT BaYsil,,, and Cilantro ,, everyone else calls it Coriander. The other MORE serious isse is date format 05/23/2009
There are NOT 23 months in a year,,, this difference actually cost many lives in WW2.
For this I recon the computer norm is the go ,, 2009/05/23

But then again if all the world was the same it would make travel boring

To ease a metric conversion, there doesn't even have to be a conversion. It could just be a complete changeover starting with the next upcoming grade school. Just phase out the old in each years textbooks. This year 1st grade will learn metric, next year they'll continue that in 2nd grade, etc. Hence, it would take one generation to phase over. Plus higher pay for those who know both systems to convert current drawings, house plans, etc. sidenote: House plans should all be monolithic dome homes anyway as proven to withstand mother nature. (and not these crappy box cutters) If they can "standardize" tests, why can't they standardize measurements? ah well.

I agree.
We're locked into days being a set length, seasons being a set length and years being a set length.

One set length we ignore, is the moon.

13 lunar months a year with a free day at the end.
Full moon the dame date every month all year! Wow... make planting by the moon easier.
28 days in a month, so the 7 day week stands, and each months is really 4 weeks, not sorta kinda
course the seasons don't fit well, but hell, the seasons don't start at the start of the month now anyhow!

Ideally we could spend trillions and trillions on a space program, and bump the earth away from the sun a bit so a year is 400 days exactly. Then bump the moon in a bit so that there were 10 months in the year, each having 40 days.
then we could have 10 4 day weeks every month! That'd be great! with a 2 day weekend of course

What this really comes down to is that the decimal system is (albeit better organised and more consistent) just as arbitrary as the imperial system.
After all the only reason we count to 10 is that we have 10 fingers.

I wonder, would we have developed and understood computers quicker should we have had 8 fingers?

Imperial is used cos half, quarter and eighths are easily understood by uneducated ppl, if we had 8 fingers, the imperial system may have been good enough, as it serves these desires well, and it also serves logic.

In America, cilantro is the leaf and coriander is the seed. And who spells it baysil?

We do have 8 fingers.....and 2 thumbs... The formula for binary was on our hands all along, we just don't realize it. 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 legs, 2 arms, 2 biological parents, binary, what, huh?


As for myself, I've never known any other way to say "bay-zil", that's how I learned it, but I'm in Texas too.

Yeah, I say bay-zil too, but I still spell it basil

I must congratulate America one one issue , the ability to grow HUGE pepper ..... and of different colours , not just the usual black or white pepper . They are amazing almost the size of Capsiciums:)

thanks to BYAP im learning metrics albeit slowly

mm are sure a lot easier with my sight issues. my GH is all built using mm as measurement unit and it turned out well imho

now to be on topic uniseals: i tried alcohol , liquid soap (joy) and even spit cant say any of them were easy but they are done and none leak

thin walled totes do not make the pushing any easier either

i even have uniseals in 1x6 lumber in the home built beds both side were backed with lexan squares and they even worked that way with zero leaks

"i even have uniseals in 1x6 lumber "

You mean 150mm x 25mm timber, don't you?

cheers IanK

hahaha why yes i do