I am 100% metric and I hate it when I have to work with imperial parts. If I have a choice I will never take the imperial parts. Especially if it is not only about dimensions but also some heat, power or whatever awkward unit they come up with. It is asking for trouble with all these conversion factors. I really don't see why anyone would prefer to work with Btu/hour, or horsepower, you name it. In SI you can just calculate without any conversion numbers. But this was about dimensions. Dimensioning with it is not really hard, you only need to remember to multiply or divide by 25.4 every now and then. But, the only advantage I can think of was the british system, it probably has an official name. It works with fractions and this makes threading, gears and divisions a lot easier to calculate. Why is this something that is/was used in the UK but not in the states? Or are there really big disadvantages? To me, it seemed really handy when you are behind a machine. I haven't done a lot of work with it so I can't really judge how it is for real work.
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