** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Digital ones tend to be in PSI. I can remember if they can be switched.
Not sure petrol fore courts can as I remember a lady having issues with her German car Sent from my iPhone On 22 Jun 2025, at 4:07 pm, vliets...@btinternet.com vlietstra--- via USMA <usma@lists.colostate.edu> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Tyre pressure gauges in the UK are in bars/ psi. We have two cars on our drive. The sticker for tyre pressures for one of them is in bars/psi and for the other in kPa/psi. WhenI I was working in Germany, I noticed that tyre pressure gauges were in kPa. Martin Sent via BT Email App From: Stephen Humphreys via USMA Sent: Jun 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM To: metricmik...@gmail.com Subject: [USMA 2136] Re: Screen size computer monitors. ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** My father owned a chain of tyre fitters across the uk. With is mm inside diameter inches and the a ratio for profile. Air pressure was always psi Then there’s tracking and balancing. Balancing used weights in grams. Sent from my iPhone On 22 Jun 2025, at 6:32 am, Metricmike via USMA <usma@lists.colostate.edu> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** I think there has been a compromise between the EU and the US on standardizing worldwide Wheel Rim diameter in inches to fit tyres that have a height and width in millimetres. But you notice with screens, the actual size is millimetres. Mike On 22/06/2025 01:46, Ezra Steinberg via USMA wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Tire and wheel sizes, too? On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM Stephen Humphreys via USMA <usma@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** The use of inches for screen and projector size is universal. Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Jun 2025, at 5:13 pm, csm--- via USMA > <usma@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>> wrote: > > ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** > > And Apple calls itself a technology company! I recently had to replace an > laptop. The one from HP that I bought was advertized at 15.9 inches. > Obviously the screen was 40 cm. Why didn't they just say so! As a > purist, it annoys me when units are mixed, some metric, some legacy. > > ============ >> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025, Metricmike via USMA wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I notice frustratingly that Apple the electronics company, has screen >> sizes in inches only (probably rounded to the nearest inch) worldwide on >> their websites and in the stores, despite the fact that few people >> outside North America and the UK use inches. >> >> I was in Australia earlier this year getting a iPad for my brother and >> all the screen sizes were in inches only, all over the store. I asked >> why? It's an Apple policy apparently. Might as well have been in cubits >> for all it meant to everyone under 60 in Australia. The person in the >> store had no idea what the size was in millimetres nor how to convert it. >> >> Submit your thoughts on this to Apple.com/feedback. >> >> Mike Payne > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:USMA@lists.colostate.edu> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:USMA@lists.colostate.edu> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:USMA@lists.colostate.edu> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma ________________________________ _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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