Difficulty Buying Metric Gages
Steven,
Thule (the company I work for) is a metric company. Amazingly, it is quite difficult to get high precision gage blocks, gage pins, etc. Many of the items we use for our in-house calibration took 6-18 months to have manufactured since they aren't in-stock items. While the technology in metrology is the same, the difficulty is probably with in-house and farmed out calibration services.
Did the article mention anything along these lines?
Regards,
Kevin
p.s. sorry to deviate from the topic folks.