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Not unless our colonial cousins change the 8x4 pick-up truck bed to some other size.

Although they were designing and building new machines in metric. Anything to do with pneumatics or hydraulics was still in inches. Not a problem now as the US factory closed.

Blame our American cousins for the standard/imperial system still being around. They are going metric inch by inch. I thought I had seen the end of inches etc until I worked with them.

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