Looks to me like you blokes in Old Blighty are letting those stupid furreners in Brussels run your show for you! I would suggest that you band together and tell the EU bunch where they can stick their idiotic directives. Next thing on the agenda will be that they will decide that French should be the official language of the members of the EU. At least it will be a boon to the makers of white flags!! Jesse in once free USA where we still have the Imperial system despite efforts by our gumment to change us.. Such a directive is both unworkable and non-policable - it will die a natural death ---TEL Greetings all, Not sure if any of you are interested in this but soon according to an E.U. directive it will be illegal to sell or even advertise anything in imperial standards, there is a petition which can be signed have a look at the following link. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.