ORIGINAL: bigchap
slightly off topic i know but i used to be a motorcycle mechanic and spent a lot of money on a very comprehensive snap-on toolkit,what used to happen when a harley came in to the shop?lots of head scratching converting imperial to metric and trying to find sockets and spanners to fit,that's what!i for one would love it if our government had given europe the bird and stuck to a system we devised but they are not as strong and patriotic as your guys,that's my rant for today!back to the vodka now,happy new year.
Don't get me started on motorcycle tools! What about those wonderful Wentworth tools that were required to work on our English cars and bikes before the switch to SAE (not imperial) sizes...Followed a few years later by your conversion to metrics. I work for GM and I remember their 'conversion' in the mid seventies when, for example, we 'switched' from 1/2" sockets for body bolt wrenches to 12.7mm wrenches
