On 2/18/03 10:15 PM, "Peter Ogilvie" <roverhi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Believe the 90 and 110's were all
> metric. So I guess Britain went metric sometime after
> '72 and before '84.
My 110 is "mostly" metric. The oddball nut (is that a redundant term?) does
jump out once in a while.
When I asked an engineer at a company I once worked for why they didn't go
all metric with their fasteners, his reply was that it was a lack of special
taps and dies in metric sizes that prevented their fully going metric. They
needed taps and dies that would account for the added thickness of some hard
anodizing procedure. He said it wasn't a fastener issue, more of a tooling
issue. That was 12 years back, so I suppose they've overcome that hurdle
now.
Perhaps LR couldn't re-tool (or just didn't want to) some machines that
built gearboxes or whatnot on the production line, leaving them with the
oddball measurement standards?
--pat.
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