Anti-Imperial

[Pete.]

I find anyone who says they can't work in metric or imperial a bit weird. They are all formed from base ten numbers (even the fractions) and you have ten digits on your two hands so you should be familiar with the concept.

Fractions are basic maths, nothing more. If you can read a clock with hands you understand half and quarter and the relationship between them so eighth and sixteenth is just a further iteration of the same thing.

The only block to understanding it is in person's willingness to think, is my opinion.

 

[anto44]

Audi and vw quote repair times in their manuals in Tu (time units). 100Tu in an hour.

 

[zzr1200]

Audi and vw quote repair times in their manuals in Tu (time units). 100Tu in an hour.

Trust the Crouts to be bloodly awkward

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I find anyone who says they can't work in metric or imperial a bit weird. They are all formed from base ten numbers (even the fractions) and you have ten digits on your two hands so you should be familiar with the concept.

Fractions are basic maths, nothing more. If you can read a clock with hands you understand half and quarter and the relationship between them so eighth and sixteenth is just a further iteration of the same thing.

The only block to understanding it is in person's willingness to think, is my opinion.

I can work in imperial.
I dont like working in imperial.
Metric is second nature to me it's all ive ever really used until recently.
Born in the early 80s. Sure if I was brought up with imperial id feel differently about it.

Imperial is so unfamiliar im always doubting myself and double checking.

 

[8ob]

Trust the Crouts to be bloodly awkward

No fun it "metrics" or Germans Always puts a smile on my face when sub divisions of our imperial measurements are mentioned amongst old boys, for thickness we have the rizla, fag packet, fingernail , hacksaw blade and midgies gonads , for liquid we have a drip, splash,dash , dribble and a few more .

Bob

 

[bigegg]

, for liquid we have a drip, splash,dash , dribble and a few more .

Bob

"Glug"

 

[anto44]

Trust the Crouts to be bloodly awkward

Its great being in the office pricing up jobs.
"How long does the manual say it'll take?"
"460Tu"
Blank expressions for about 20 seconds while everyone does the conversion in their heads.
"Oh right"

 

[Greeves246]

I took my slide rule into work some years ago, nobody in the workshop had any idea what it was or how to use it. When I was an estimator it took 20 minutes to work out a price on one, down to a couple of minutes when I got the first calculator in the company, early seventies I think. Greeves246

 

[snoozer]

So where does a Gnats Knacker fall in the scheme of measurmenting then ? Cause i quite often get it within 1 or 2 of them when engerbogerneerin..

 

[Screwdriver]

When I am working on a precision item, I work to tolerances of thousandths of an inch.








Several hundred of them usually

 

[brightspark]

So where does a Gnats Knacker fall in the scheme of measurmenting then ? Cause i quite often get it within 1 or 2 of them when engerbogerneerin..

thought it was a midges d...ck

 

[Pete.]

When I am working on a precision item, I work to tolerances of thousands of an inch.

Must be a hell of a big lathe.

 

[God mode restorations]

I work in mm cm inches meters. What ever really.

 

[Screwdriver]

Must be a hell of a big lathe.

Doh! Bloody iPad!

 

[Seadog]

thought it was a midges d...ck

No no no, it's a gnat's cock hair...

 

[ronan]

I work in mm cm inches meters. What ever really.

Never worked in cm, its either mm or m.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I work in mm cm inches meters. What ever really.

Gas meters?

 

[WorkshopChris]

I am happy with both but my pet hate is online sellers who use rough conversions.
Something can not possibly be 6mm or 1/4" it must be one or the other.

 

[ronan]

Audi and vw quote repair times in their manuals in Tu (time units). 100Tu in an hour.

Metric time, they were trying to push that crap years ago, 100 mins in an hour, 10 hours in a day all that rubbish.

 

[God mode restorations]

Gas meters?

And parking meters