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February 19th 18, 12:23 AM
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Can you teach me more about lug bolts & related tire tools?
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>> 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. Do the Germans and French also use "inch" sizes for their ratchets? > 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 I see. Like you, we only speak of "gallons", where we don't ever need to distinguish between your gallons and our gallons, I guess.  
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