Imperial or metric?

Australia and New Zealand “went metric” over a quarter of a century ago. Metric conventions are well established in modern engineering practice. Stock such as tube and sheet is metric. Imperial drills, taps and other tools are becoming more difficult to obtain. Therefore, AME prefers authors to describe all new items in metric units. Of course, if the story is about full-size machinery that was built using imperial units, then you will probably want to use imperial units.

Despite our clear preference for metrics, we do recognize that many of our contributors are using imperial tools and may not want to use metrics. To avoid errors, we do not convert articles to metric units at the editing stage. Please avoid mixing measurements: try to keep them all metric or (with the exception of metric tube and sheet sizes) all imperial.

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