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  1. WalkSoftly

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    Bottom line here is that the guy's just being a dick...I know how to handle it going forward...thanks for the input everyone...
  2. WalkSoftly

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    Thanks everyone...quite helpful. Going forward, I will stick to metric first and avoid alternates where possible. We do have problems with rounding, conversions, decimal places and tolerances, especially where this one guy is concerned. He seems to be the root cause. Alas...
  3. WalkSoftly

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    You're probably right on the opinion thing...past experience is that metric just gets this guy all kinds of discombobulated. I can understand that to a point...it's the self-righteousness in his "country-of-origin statement that gets under my skin.
  4. WalkSoftly

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    Thanks 3dDave...I probably should have added more but, it's only two drawings and he put the standard dimensions on there before any approval. There are no weekends and late nights for this guy so it's not a lot that I'm asking for. I agree that tolerances are an issue for us. We do not do that...
  5. WalkSoftly

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    Greetings all, I need some help/advice... One of our resident "engineers" poked the bear in a meeting recently by trying to get out of modifying some drawings. Quite simply, I asked for metric dimensions as the primary with standard dimensions as an alternate, and in parentheses on the...

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