I’m a digital age, all of that is converted automatically. Bottom right corner, units option. Even when you find suspicious values like 25.4mm (1.000"), there’s so much esoteric sizing out there that it’s not a smoking gun. We use 10mm hex sockets on 3/8" square drive ratchets and put 235mm wide tires on 18" diameter wheels across the world.
The other way too. Nobody has made a SAE bearing since like the 1950s. You will see bearings that are a somewhat odd size in metric, but they picked nearest measure to the SAE value asked for and then rounded to metric to not be as odd.
In the digital age, you still have to talk with humans. What did my coworker tell me again? The wheels need to be torqued to 150 Nm or ftlb or lbft? Shoot. He’s busy helping other customers now… uhh… I’ll just wing it.
US engineers would thank you - we only work in metric units anyway.
Oh my god please do this. Kill the Imperial measurement system. This is such a golden opportunity.
EU doesn’t get products with imperial units anyways as no one knows what it means. Sometimes you get both units if it’s an extremely cheap Chinese item, but that’s about it.
Good shower thought and an interesting angle on boycotting the US. You just to use it as an excuse to cut out their products and call them dumb for still using such an arcane system all at the same time.
For anyone else wondering WTF SAE is:
Tools and fasteners with sizes measured in inches are sometimes called “SAE bolts” or “SAE wrenches” to differentiate them from their metric counterparts. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) originally developed fasteners standards using U.S. units for the U.S. auto industry; the organization now uses metric units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#Other_names_for_U.S._customary_units
You could also ban everything that has language X on it, if your goal is to standardize while being a dick.
You’d have to demonstrate that all other countries not only just use metric, but also only sell products that already only have metric on the packaging. I don’t doubt dual labeling is heavily a US thing, but I doubt it’s only US. Simply to keep packaging making universal. Now that could be altered if such a ban was put in place, and maybe most non-US places wouldn’t care too much…but we need a sampling of what’s already out there to even say if it’s a thing that can be used.
