/15/11, Dan Kemppainen d...@irtelemetrics.com wrote:
From: Dan Kemppainen d...@irtelemetrics.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 89, Issue 51
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 10:29 AM
On 12/14/2011 3:59 PM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com
wrote:
It's
On 12/14/2011 3:59 PM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote:
It's not like metric is totally absent. We drink 2 liter cokes and defend
ourselves with 9mm pistols. Our cars use mostly metric parts. Even ham
radio operators, arguably the most jingoistic and set in the past bunch
around, get on
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Dan Kemppainen d...@irtelemetrics.com wrote:
On 12/14/2011 3:59 PM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote:
It's not like metric is totally absent. We drink 2 liter cokes and defend
ourselves with 9mm pistols. Our cars use mostly metric parts. Even ham
radio
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Chris Albertson
albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you point one even ONE machine shop in the US that can make metric
parts? Those guys would have gone out of business years ago. Also
how many are still using hand cranks and reading veneer scales? Even
What I find interesting is that the first push for standardization, at
least for machine threads, came from the manufacture of arms, the
Springfield Armory, at the time of the Civil war. At that time, threads
were a mixture of the then fledgling metric system (French) and a
conglomeration of
The laboratory where i work obviously reports results using the SI metric
system. There is one exception though, and that is the energy side,
specifically calorimetry. At first glance the calorimeters appear to
normal(SI, that is). They take mass in terms of the gram, measure
temperature by degree
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Steve . iteratio...@gmail.com wrote:
The laboratory where i work obviously reports results using the SI metric
system. There is one exception though, and that is the energy side,
specifically calorimetry. At first glance the calorimeters appear to
normal(SI,
Those bolts would be whitworth.
On Dec 15, 2011, at 14:43, Steve . iteratio...@gmail.com wrote:
The laboratory where i work obviously reports results using the SI metric
system. There is one exception though, and that is the energy side,
specifically calorimetry. At first glance the
There's a system that the motorcycle guys call the Whitworth Inch, but I think
may be more correctly called Whitworth Measure. It's an old British system
that was used on their motorcycles and possibly cars, too. There's a whole
subculture of people trading in Whitworth tools for BSA and
The British Whitworth is a 55 degree thread instead of the 60 degree
SAE. BTU is a British Thermal Unit, hence BTU/lb. MKS is Meter Kilogram
Second, one of the precoursors to thee SI system.
Steve .
The laboratory where i work obviously reports results using the SI
metric
system. There is one
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