{"id":322,"date":"2002-03-19T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=322"},"modified":"2002-03-19T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T13:49:07","slug":"the-right-tool-for-the-job-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/03\/19\/the-right-tool-for-the-job-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the right tool for the job part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I told you that <a href=\"http:\/\/dougal.gunters.org\/myphpblog\/archive.php?blogid=1&#038;tem=emc3&#038;y=2002&#038;m=03&#038;d=12\">Netscape 4.x Sucks<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>====<\/p>\n<p>Dear Admiral Motor Company;<\/p>\n<p>  Why can&#8217;t I repair my 2002 Admiral 3-door hatchback with my trusty set of all-imperial measure socket wrenches?  My brother has no problem with his newer socket set which includes metric heads.  Whenever I try to turn a bolt, it doesn&#8217;t quite fit and I get a suboptimal user experience.  Why have you started to design your cars so they can&#8217;t be repaired by everyone?  You could at least only select a subset of nut sizes for your vehicles that closely approximates my socket set.<\/p>\n<p>  Signed Joe User<\/p>\n<p>====<\/p>\n<p>Memo from Marketing to Production<\/p>\n<p>Guys, come on, quit being unnecessarily innovative with &#8220;standards&#8221; and give our customers what they need.  Please retool the assembly line to use only those bolts that everyone can turn.  Our studies show us that up to 10% of home mechanics and some large shops have resisted the global move to metric tools.  We&#8217;re losing a significant amount of their valuable business.<\/p>\n<p>====<\/p>\n<p>engineering drawing change summary:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; changed all 20mm bolts to 25mm to approximate 1&#8243;.  Moved essential parts for extra clearance.<br \/>\n&#8211; changed all 10mm bolts to 12mm to approximate 1\/2&#8243;.<br \/>\n&#8211; changed all bolts to titanium alloy to reduce head stripping from poorly fitting socket wrenches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I told you that Netscape 4.x Sucks? ==== Dear Admiral Motor Company; Why can&#8217;t I repair my 2002 Admiral 3-door hatchback with my trusty set of all-imperial measure socket wrenches? My brother has no problem with his newer socket set which includes metric heads. Whenever I try to turn a bolt, it doesn&#8217;t quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}