Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "FAL in the North: The Canadian C1A1" video.

@laurentvilodeau5434 That is well documented to be a complete myth. Matel had absolutely nothing to do with them. The early furniture was a sort of fibreglass type hand laid stuff that was a little too light and not very cost effective. Also it was specific to sides, so an armorer had to keep spares for each side in inventory. It was a small problem quickly remedied.
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The answer in the short run was no. Lathes tended to have gear sets based on fractions. Europe was easy to convert all at once, because all their stuff was either: Old and crappy, blown up, new but worn out from war. Just clear the slate and start over all at once. North America had just built a ton of tooling for the war, and was trying to pay off the cost of the war without scrapping all the perfectly good tooling and infrastructure they just put in. I mean a lot of industry here really only stopped using WWII surplus fabrication and tooling when CNC took over from manual machining. In the case of those, the unit conversion is simply a toggle in your drafting program, and maybe which collet holds your tool.
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@IanDinBC Yes, but also no. It's more accurate to say that both are based on the same tangible objects for verification. In practice, the US is mixed and uses fractional inch, decimal inch, and metric for various purposes.
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@thermonucleardevice Not emphasizing weight by the sound of it though so it's more of what if it were in a nicer caliber for marksmen.
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More of a lesson on the costs of converting from one system to another. Multiply those costly expenses to the entire US economy and you would have a better understanding of why the change is happening gradually here. We have a lot more industrial infrastructure and legislative/ regulatory machinery that would be jacked up and need replaced than really existed when EU all standardized. (Most of their stuff was either outdated or broken at the end of the war. Easier to just update everything at once. This is the reason why countries like India and Estonia have the best internet. No old stuff worth keeping when they got set up.)
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