Phillips Screws (actually JIS)

[Hooli]

I was given a Renault once, I felt ripped off. It was really that bad!

[ARH]

@KiwiCol ... you're right.... 'going the extra kilometre' doesn't really work does it..

[Tony Nitrous]

[KiwiCol]

You've had that up before Tony!  Love it & use it myself now!   

[Kiwifruit]

Have found a very sharp small cold chisel and hammer works a treat after some savage has used a worn out incorrect screwdriver and made the head of the screw look like they tried to drill it out.
Not on my lovely bike though 

My missis reckons using metric or imperial measurements makes no difference........ l am still a fat bastard.

[ARH]

That made me smile fruit.... a man of many kilopounds then...    Same as most of us I reckon...

[lil4399]

Exactly, that's bloody french & who wants to talk that? 
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Me.

Oh and you, without it you lose 55% of your language.   

[Tony Nitrous]

The old imperial system did give us good sayings though,   Miles of smiles. Tons of fun, Penny for your thoughts, Look after your pennies & the pounds will look after themselves.  I've not heard of metric equivalent of these

The cops here had an anti-speeding ad that said "Every K over is a killer"


Shortly followed by my mate producing stickers that said "Every K over is a thriller".

[grog]

having been metric a long time i find us Aussies strange in some ways. most a lot would say. mpg is still a favourite. a persons height, yeah hes around 6 foot. car or bike makes horsepower not kilowatts. foot pounds is usual in my trade for torque wrench. Most everything else is in metric. i weigh myself in kg, my speed is kph, my pool is litres, my bike takes litres of fuel and oil. if you just missed , its by mm. my house is so many sq. metres. my fence is in metres. my brain, they havent found a measurment that small. 

[KiwiCol]

For height, if they're young I give it to them in feet & inches, if they're older, I give it to them in metric, then I say "in old money i'm 6'5" & they get it.

[Irish in Oz]

Back in the seventies and eighties we used to change all the JIS frame and engine bolts for Allen key sets.
I found this in the shed today and I reckon it is 40 years old and there is still some stuff in it.
My old man throws out nothing and it great because I'm finding all my old shit from years ago.
The poms will be the ones to recognize these.

[Jeykey]

I reckon ours are Philips and not JIS ! Maybe if we had a bike from the 60´s/70´s they´d be JIS. I´m still not certain but after a lot of googling I come to think JIS is extint nowadays. Take a look at this article and especially the comments section where they talk about the srewdrivers manufacturers, Hozan and Vessel(https://www.webbikeworld.com/hozan-jis-screwdrivers-review/). I read a lot of stuff about this. Had a detailed look at the Japanese tool makers that used to make and sell JIS and found no reference to JIS.  I was looking to buy JIS but not any more. Always used Philps with no probelems.

[Tony Nitrous]

When I was a pipe layer inearthworks I had a huge Maori on my crew. He was about my age so knew both metric and imperial.

It was quite normal to hear cries of "2 inches to me......... a couple of mill higher"
We mix both measurements when it suited.


Who wants to race 402m at the drags though.
That'll always be 440 / 1320 to me.

[Batkwaka]

Mankinds greatest achievement was convincing girls that centimetres were inches.

I'm not sure when the the metric system actually started because the Romans used the term "Decimate", when 1 in 10 soldiers of a legion would be put to the sword if the the legion had fled the battlefield or shown extreme cowardice.

[Hooli]

I believe decimal measurements (in the modern sense) were invented by an Englishman but we sensibly rejected them as bloody daft. Then later the french under Napoleon started using them at about the same time they started marching on the wrong side of the road (hence europe drives on the right).