why is cable lengths in meters
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
Twenty four hours in a day.
Twenty four beers in a case.
Coincidence?
I think not.
18 Pack now made for golfers no?
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helipilotdoug wrote: »When it comes to wire, we sell some in meters and some in feet on the website. It really depends on the manufacturer. Some sell and price in meters and some sell and price in feet. But I'll sell you cable lengths in any measurement you want! millimeters, centimeters, inches, feet, yards, meters, You name it.
Well you da man Doug but we all already knew that.
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It's all madness, if we just went Metric like the entire rest of the world, our lives would be so much easier.
I have to disagree. I work at a machine shop and when we get a blue print that's in metric its a pain in the a$$. 95% of our blue prints from customers are in inch's. All our measuring tools, calipers, micrometers, depth mic's are in inch's. We have to covert a blue prints from metric to inch's in order to even make and inspect the parts.
On top of that the customer accepts that we convert to inch's and send the parts to them with an Inspection Report that is in inch's.Anaheim Hills CA,
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Now Imagine just living in just Metric. All Metric measurement, tools everything.It's all madness, if we just went Metric like the entire rest of the world, our lives would be so much easier.
I have to disagree. I work at a machine shop and when we get a blue print that's in metric its a pain in the a$$. 95% of our blue prints from customers are in inch's. All our measuring tools, calipers, micrometers, depth mic's are in inch's. We have to covert a blue prints from metric to inch's in order to even make and inspect the parts.
On top of that the customer accepts that we convert to inch's and send the parts to them with an Inspection Report that is in inch's.
When I was a Auto Technician for Nissan, everything was Metric. When I worked on Pontiac, it was a mix of both metric and Imperial. So you had to guess which one it was by looking at it by size , then trying Metric and Imperial to see which one fit better. I hated that. Not to mention having to own tools Both Metric and Imperial took up a lot of extra space in my tool box.
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That's because the parts of the car are being made outside the USA and imported. It's not new news that many products have a mix of standards.
Globalization does that right ? You get a mix of everything. Nature of the beast to have to have tools for it all.HT SYSTEM-
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It's all madness, if we just went Metric like the entire rest of the world, our lives would be so much easier.
I have to disagree. I work at a machine shop and when we get a blue print that's in metric its a pain in the a$$. 95% of our blue prints from customers are in inch's. All our measuring tools, calipers, micrometers, depth mic's are in inch's. We have to covert a blue prints from metric to inch's in order to even make and inspect the parts.
On top of that the customer accepts that we convert to inch's and send the parts to them with an Inspection Report that is in inch's.
Sure, converting FROM metric to inches would be a pain.
But if everything was metric it would be quite easy.
Most engineers and manufacturing only use metric. What type of parts are you making that require "inches", that seems unusual, as Most anything manufactured, assembled or designed, is measured in Metric, as it is usually more precise and universally used. -
Most engineers and manufacturing only use metric.
Maybe in your world. I've worked at this same shop for 34 years and I can maybe only count on one hand how many company's we've had that use metric.
We make parts for Eaton, Beckman, Newport (in Ireland), Turbonetics, Varco, just to name a few and none of these supply us with prints with dimension in metrics.Anaheim Hills CA,
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I'd love to go just Metric, life would be so much easier. Go buy a 2x4 at the Lumber yard. Go ahead and measure it and see what it really is. It's not 2x4
The 2 x 4 metric equivalent isn't actually 5 x 10 cm either. So much your notion.Political Correctness'.........defined
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2 X 4's are cut green and shrink when dried. Has nothing to do with metrics.Anaheim Hills CA,
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2 X 4's are cut green and shrink when dried. Has nothing to do with metrics.
And, AFAIK, that has always, or at least long, been the case.
Speaking of temperatures -- remember, when it's really cold, -40 degrees F = -40 degrees C. Brrrrr.
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Why do they call it absolute "zero" when it has been given a numerical factor?
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Why do they call it absolute "zero" when it has been given a numerical factor?
Isn't zero just zero?
It's absolute because zero is the lowest possible temperature at 459°F and 273°C.Anaheim Hills CA,
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awww, he knows that
-- and, of course, it is zero on the Kelvin scale.
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Double and add 30. Works for me...
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She makes a couple good points.Political Correctness'.........defined
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-- way up firm and high, as Bob Seeger put it.
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your 1m cable is 200 million beard-seconds long.
Serious bang for buck.Jay
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your 1m cable is 200 million beard-seconds long.
Serious bang for buck.
umm -- OK, I think I decoded this.
The average (?) growth of male human beard length per unit time = 1 beard second. Apparently, that distance is 1/200,000,000 of a meter or 0.005 microns (if I did the arithmetic right)
I like it, a very practical unit
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My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
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leftwinger57 wrote: »When ever I have to much time on my hands I think of stupid sh%t like this. We still live in the U.S and I think we still use feet and inches,calibers for ammo measurements unlike the rest of the world that use meters and wacky conversions like type 303 ammo which equals 30 caliber or a 12.7mm machine gun is 50 caliber. Is there any reason U.S. makers use the universal meter language. Hey thankfully we still drive on the left side.
Oh, I do have a conversion chart right next to me so I know wtf lengths are talked about.
Simple explanation, there are like 3 or so countries in the world not going metric, the US of A happens to be one of them.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »your 1m cable is 200 million beard-seconds long.
Serious bang for buck.
umm -- OK, I think I decoded this.
The average (?) growth of male human beard length per unit time = 1 beard second. Apparently, that distance is 1/200,000,000 of a meter or 0.005 microns (if I did the arithmetic right)
I like it, a very practical unit
My boys (10 and 13) are big fans of the "MythBusters" TV show. Former host Adam Savage is touring with a science show called Brain Candy--We took the boys (who have March birthdays) as a birthday gift to the Chicago show at the lovely Oriental Theater.
The aforementioned Mr. Savage mentioned that the "beard-second" was his favorite unit of measure, so I thought I'd inject it here. I believe the Google converter will happily convert to/from beard-seconds, so it must be legit.Jay
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My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Excellent. Excellent....
My boys (10 and 13) are big fans of the "MythBusters" TV show. Former host Adam Savage is touring with a science show called Brain Candy--We took the boys (who have March birthdays) as a birthday gift to the Chicago show at the lovely Oriental Theater.
The aforementioned Mr. Savage mentioned that the "beard-second" was his favorite unit of measure, so I thought I'd inject it here. I believe the Google converter will happily convert to/from beard-seconds, so it must be legit.
Every bit as legit as the Smoot -- which is very well known in our part of the world, at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
I would note, wryly, that the Smoot unit was born the same month & year -- as I.
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Tony, it's time for a new car!My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Depending on which hogshead (beer or wine) you are talking about, you are getting at the best 432 gallons to the mile. And I thought my SUV got bad gas milage! 
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yeah, but it's got a Hemi in it...
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ken brydson wrote: »
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I had a friend in high school with a Dart like that one* ! -- push button A/T and a slant-six, baby!
https://youtu.be/xFuk-Fk6GyA
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* Actually, his was a '64; that one's a '65, it appears -- tail lights are different.
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Gawd that brings back memories.
My first car was a Valiant of that era (the Plymouth version of that venerable sled) with the *whopping* 170 cid slant-six.
It did 0-60 in about 3 days.
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Passed by loaded semis? Crazy. Even my 1500cc Civic doesn't get passed by them on the seriously steep grades going up the mountains on I70 west.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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