^^^

 

Just top up the tank & give her a quick oil & filter change would ya mate? :wink:

Edited August 18, 201115 yr by carbonboy

They use 3 quarts a day per engine, oil tank holds 18 quarts. Gets an oil change by itself every 6 days. :)

quarts? imperial? fractions? what is this?

 

m12X1.5 ahh i understand, 3/4UNF20 :blinks:

Live in jet land and you use nothing but imperial.

 

Even the French Airbus' (Airbusii?) have imperial nuts and bolts through them.

 

My work box contains no metric tools at all.

They use 3 quarts a day per engine, oil tank holds 18 quarts. Gets an oil change by itself every 6 days. :)

quarts? imperial? fractions? what is this?

m12X1.5 ahh i understand, 3/4UNF20 :blinks:

 

My brain just imploded...

 

8/

 

Edit: It's not the existence/use of Imperial that gets me, it's the having to do the conversions on the fly. Where's that damn conversion table? :wink:

 

Airbuses? :P

Edited August 18, 201115 yr by carbonboy

Live in jet land and you use nothing but imperial.

 

Even the French Airbus' (Airbusii?) have imperial nuts and bolts through them.

 

My work box contains no metric tools at all.

 

I'm curious to know why that's still the case.

 

Can we just blame the yanks (as per usual) for stubbornly clinging to their arbitrary and increasingly irrelevant system of measurement instead of adopting the globally recognised and universal base-10 metric system? I mean its just them and Burma really. Surely the rest of the planet could politely tell them to get a wriggle on.

 

 

 

PS. How many rods to the hogshead does one of those bad boys get

its the same in the piping industry.

 

we still use the original imperial systems, we have even added metric tags to the imperial sizes.

 

eg: a DN100 pipe, is a common size, that has an overall diameter of 114.3mm (4"). not 100mm OD as you would expect. a DN15...is 21.3mm OD...go figure.

 

who knows why it is, i guess there was SOOO much crap built when imperial was the norm, that is still running (eg both refineries in brisbane are built in the 60's) changing everything to metric is just not an option.

 

even if you started by saying "right, any new stuff will be metric", how do you join to the old stuff? then you will need twice as many spare parts (both metric and imperial) while we wait for everything imperial to be decommissioned...

 

not to mention that anyone that produces anything for these industries (that is currently in imperial) would need to modify their machinery etc, sounds like its just been put into the "too hard basket"

I thought imperials were for gypsy's?? what is the wizardry you speak of? :happy:

Base 10 FTW.

eg: a DN100 pipe, is a common size, that has an overall diameter of 114.3mm (4"). not 100mm OD as you would expect. a DN15...is 21.3mm OD...go figure.

 

 

Hmm, so our rolla's actually have an imperial stud pattern!

Hmm, so our rolla's actually have an imperial stud pattern!

 

PCD around the world is a headf*ck.

 

Early rollas, metric. (4x110)

Late rwd, imperial (4x114.3/4.5")

FWD, metric. (4/5x100mm)

 

Then if you head over to Europe its all over the place... 108 is 4.25", but then there's 120mm, 112mm, 98mm...

 

 

PS. How many rods to the hogshead does one of those bad boys get

In cruise they do about 980kg of fuel per hour per engine. On take off about 3 tonne per hour per engine.

 

BNE- SYD is about 3.2 tonne trip, or about 4000 litres total.

Is my maths right... that works out to 2.1L/100km/PAX when full? Prius whaaat?

Edit: It's not the existence/use of Imperial that gets me, it's the having to do the conversions on the fly. Where's that damn conversion table? :wink:

 

Have to do all that at work day in/day out.

 

Using both imp and metric drills helps when something needs a little clearance :P

 

Just remember the basic ones and for the rest refer to the comparison chart

 

1/4" = 6.35mm

5/16 = 7.9mm

3/8 = 9.5 mm

7/16 = 11.11mm

1/2 = 12.7mm

9/16 = 14.2mm

5/8 = 15.875mm

3/4 = 19.05mm

7/8 = 22.2mm

1" = 25.4mm

 

don't give me that >> :huh: look :P

Using both imp and metric drills helps when something needs a little clearance :P

 

Just remember the basic ones and for the rest refer to the comparison chart

 

don't give me that >> :huh: look :P

 

Amen to that man! :wink:

 

I've got the basics, it's when the 1 3/4" (for example) stuff comes up my brain has a cough, splutter & fart so I stop using my head & have to start writing:

 

1

25.40

+ 19.05

= 44.45

 

Now, where's my nutfuc......I mean, shifter?

 

:laff:

 

Edit: Forgot to carry the 1.

Edited August 20, 201115 yr by carbonboy