Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used

Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by dejerpha on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:02AM (#32981557)

Maybe because the site is hard-coded for the US imperial system?

Quoting the article: «Bolts are commonly specified by their thread size (e.g. 1/4"-20), and their length. I'm looking for a 1/4"-20 x 1" bolt, meaning that the bolt's diameter is 1/4" and its length is 1", so I select these filters.»

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Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by dagw on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:16AM (#32981645)

Maybe because the site is hard-coded for the US imperial system?

Why not go to the site and take a look. They, obviously, sell both metric and imperial bolts (and everything else).

It's not like Americans don't occasionally need metric bolts.

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Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by jsjohnst on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:44AM (#32981857)

> It's not like Americans don't occasionally need metric bolts.

It’s becoming a lot more common than not in fact. Automobile industry for example is pretty heavy on using metric bolts / screws. It’s not a recent thing either, a 2004 F-250 I used to have had many (most?) bolts as metric.

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Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by bluGill on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:21AM (#32982766)

The US automotive industry started their metric push in the 1970s, and was mostly done in the 1980s for everything new. There are still a few parts from the 1960s and before that work just fine and so haven't been redesigned (and thus the bracket it goes on in a mix), but if there was ever need to redesign that part it would be all metric.

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Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by yardie on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:51AM (#32983115)

This only helps the tool makers. I wrench on Japanese and European cars yet every toolset comes with Metric and SAE sets. It seems to only inflate the parts count without giving you more functionality. The SAE and Metric bits are practically interchangeable.

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Re:Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used by jsjohnst on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:22AM (#32994430)

> yet every toolset comes with Metric and SAE sets

I’ve mostly only seen that really with jumbo cheap quality “Father’s Day gift” type tool sets. If you are buying good quality tools, SAE and Metric are most often sold separately in my experience.

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