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Can you teach me more about lug bolts & related tire tools?
On 18/02/2018 22:25, ultred ragnusen wrote:
> > That's strange that Europeans use a half-metric half-what-you-call-Imperial > standard of units. Not necessarily the rest of Europe but the UK. I'm now retired and during my schooling it was mainly the metric system that was taught. In the UK we still use a imperial units for some items. Beer in pubs is sold in pints and not litres. Vehicle speed and road signs are still in miles and not kilometres. Manufactures/dealers still refer to petrol consumption in miles per gallon even though petrol has been sold by the litre for 3 decades or more. I was an engineer by profession and only used metric my whole working life for the job. Some non-metric items are throwback to history - they have been that way for hundreds of years and haven't changed. > To us, Imperial is a strange word, where it often means Imperial Japan or > Imperial British (meaning before WWII in our vernacular), but we never use > the word "imperial" in terms of measurement units (at least I don't). > I have seen "imperial gallons" where I have to ask what they are, since we > just have gallons and liters and nothing else (similarly with regular tons > and long tons I guess). We only say gallons BUT when talking to the ex-colonies we have to say 'Imperial' because your pints and gallons are different from ours. 1 imperial (UK) pint = 1.2 US pint 1 imperial (UK) gallon = 1.2 US gallons There is also the tonne = 1,000 kg -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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