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Tip: you can use Google to convert almost any measurement or weight by simply typing the amount and unit. You'll either get the conversion or a link to many conversion sites.


Sadly, none will reduce your waistline, incease penis length or girth, or turn lead into gold. Sorry.

 

Also, sadly, none will reduce the need for two tool boxes either. More to the point: Sadly, none will reduce the need to pull tools out of both tool boxes if working on most any US made vehicle (and other stuff) since the US converted to the metric system... when was that? Back in the '70's as I recall?

 

But... there are some plusses to having to have two tool boxes of redundent tools (same-same, except for slightly different size standards):

 

1) You can pound a 14mm socket on the head of a bolt that's been too rounded off for the intended 9/16" socket to function.

 

2) Same goes for 12mm when working 1/2" headed nuts & bolts.

 

3) A metric crescent wrench fits the same stuff as the regular crescent wrench... so being equipped with both sizes of crescent wrenches means you finally have enough crescent wrenches (same goes for vise grips).

 

4) You get better at making mm to fraction converstions in you head.

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