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In another post I related to a summer job I had laying out survey lines for gas pipelines. A surveyor's tape is in feet, with the last foot calibrated in 1/10s of a foot, since surveyors do not use inches.
An old codger got up from hs bench, walked over and asked me: "Hey sonny, it that there one of them tapes with ten inches to the foot?".
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree Like"Bars make a lot of sense"
They do, especially at the end of a long, hard day.
However, I prefer to bring my own (Johnny Walker Black), rather than pay inflated drink prices at bars.
That was what you meant--right?
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeSo the 225 kPa factory recommended air pressure would simply convert to 2.25 bars (or 32.6 psi for the Luddites).
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeFor example, there is 14x1.0, 14x1.25, 14x1.5 and 14x2.0.
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0 • Off Topic Disagree Agree LikeTake the bolts and nuts issue brought up above. In the English system, the pitch is specified in "threads per inch". There are standards, but that doesn't preclude anyone from making something off standard. In fact, there are places where an adjustment screw has used an ultra fine thread that isn't part of the standard (as in UNC and UNF).
The same for metric - but in this case they specify the pitch as the distance between threads. There are standard thread pitches, but there is nothing that prevents someone from using an unusual pitch.
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