<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">"<i><b style="background-color:rgb(144,202,249)">A lot of the T-Bird's parts I've ordered are poor quality, or don't fit well</b></i>," </span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Has a familiar ring 🙄</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">M</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 11:38 AM Bob Spidell, <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sadly, the USA doesn't 'make' much of anything anymore--maybe that
will change, maybe it won't--but we're getting 'metricfied'
bit-by-bit. I bought a side mirror for a '55 Thunderbird; it didn't
come with the needed screws--one was sheet metal, one was machine
threads--and the original screws I had for the broken mirror didn't
fit, nor did any of the jillions of English-sized screws I have in
small boxes and bags scattered about (it would have been a 'size
12,' or eighth-inch or so if it was English). I had to order a
'screw set' for the mirror from the supplier; the machine screw in
the kit did indeed fit. The mirror was made in Taiwan, and I
presume all Chinese/Taiwanese stuff uses metric fasteners.<br>
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A lot of the T-Bird's parts I've ordered are poor quality, or don't
fit well, but I guess I should be thankful I can get them at all.
Compared to this, the Healey parts suppliers appear to be at least <i>trying</i>
to supply parts that fit.<br>
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Bob<br>
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<div>On 4/24/2020 2:13 AM,
<a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>“Flirted”?
To tell the truth, I’d never given it much thought but had
“assumed” that the US had resisted metrification. Don’t I
recall that all oil-producing kit is Imperial because of US
domination in that area? And planes……?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I
do know that, when Ted “The Grocer” Heath dragged the UK
into the Common Market, we were supposed to go Metric. There
were some hiccups along the way. A pint of beer remains a
pint. As did a pint of milk whilst milk bottles still
existed. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>EU:
“You must cease drinking pints forthwith. You will obey”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>UK:
“Won’t. Can’t. Shan’t”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Etcetc
Finally:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>EU:
“You will obey”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>UK:
“OK. We will keep pint glasses (From which we will drink
proper beer unlike your pallid Europ*ss). We will refer to
those glasses as “pints” whilst acknowledging that they
contain<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>568.261ml
litres each.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>EU:
“Zut, alors. We surrender. Have some cheese”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Aren’t
we all allowed the occasional rant?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Simon<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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