Metric Misery

I deal with a lot of Standard bolt measurements every day and I've come to the conclusion that SAE is not fundamentally worse or better than Metric. The main problem came along when some engineer decided to reduce fractions like 1/4...which is really 2/8...or 4/16...or 8/32. BUT FOR SOME STRANGE REASON THE SAME ENGINEER Used a different denominator for different sizes such as 3/8. So you go from 1/4 to 3/8. Why didn't they leave both as a denominator of 8? Then it would be 2/8 and then 3/8. Then 4/8...which is 1/2. So, my conclusion, when I open my own tool manufacture company in Mexico...is to go sequentially with only 32 as the denominator.
So it will be 8/32...10/32....12/32...14/32..16/32...18/32....20/32.....22/32...24/32...26/32...28/32...30/32...1 inch.
See? sequential increase by 2.

None of this insane 5/16, 3/8, 3/4 nonsense.


Metric works because it is sequential...and standard fractions have different denominators...so a 3/8 actually bigger than a 5/16...3 being bigger than 5 because the division of 8 is smaller than the division of 16. Does that make sense?

I only bring this up because the brake pedal of my van hit the floor today at high speed and put some more grey hairs on my aging face...and I'm trying to figure out the size of my brake line...1/4 or 3/8..because the Mexican beach salt finally caught up with the 45 year old stainless.