On Saturday 27 May 2017 23:58:14 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 27.05.17 16:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think so too. But I am so used to thinking in in/lbs, and have > > never seen a formula or a chart that converts Nm to in/lbs, > > But on just about any full linux distro under your roof, you have: > > $ units > You have: 3 N m > You want: lbf in > * 26.552237 > / 0.03766161 > > The first is the forward conversion, the second is the reciprocal. > (Use "units -1" if that's annoying.) > > > so I've no clue if they might be usable for me. So what is 3Nm equ > > to? > > Most of the advertisements seem to be in oz-in, so to "imperialise", > I'd: > > You have: 3 N m > You want: ozf in > Unknown unit 'ozf' > You want: oz force in > * 424.8358 > / 0.0023538506 > > Ah, now, that's substantial, in the size range I tend to look at. > > Erik > > P.S. As a side issue, I couldn't remember the imperial g, but: > You have: gravity > You want: ft/s^2 > * 32.174049 > / 0.03108095 > > Yes, now I remember using 32, back as a schoolkid, before we went > metric. > Thats all we had when I was in school, in the '40's. The only metrics I was exposed to then was in my electronics stuff as I learned it, beginning also in the '40's while WW-II was in full swing. :) Theres been a whole lot of water under the bridge since then.
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