crazyb Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 No mate - BRITISH!!!! :approve: You and me alike. Can never understand why the media almost always state short distances in metres yet still talk in miles and not kilometres. I always calculate in imperial and fahrenheit but not centigrade (celcius). Hopefully we never go over to kilometres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy2706 Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Anyone involved in engineering will have seen apprentices coming into work and using centimetres instead of millimetres, a source of much aggravation because the teaching profession know nothing about the real world where centimetres are never used. Years ago I worked with a bloke who was good at heights. He would shout down trunking or conduit measurements, I would make the piece up and chuck it up to him. The trouble was, Jeff liked accuracy and I am long sighted, so he would want a piece making at 27 17/32" and I struggled to read the 32's scale on a tape measure. Worse, he had lost the first foot of his tape measure in an accident so I had to remember whether I should add a foot to his measurements, or take it off! Chaotic. Electricians went metric in 1971, so used conduit sizes approximately the same as the old imperial 3/4" and 1" i.e. 20mm and 25mm. The trouble was, the imbeciles at the Institute of Electrical Engineers and their cretin relatives at BSI had failed to understand that on the continent they used PG threads (you will never believe what PG stands for) so for years we never had the right thread adaptors for foreign equipment. Add to this the change in the cable colours made only to accomodate foreign electricians working here and you will wonder how anyone turning on a light stays safe! So, speedway bikes should weigh not less than 169lbs unfuelled and if you read American custom or hot rod magazines memorise 16.8. This converts cubic inches to cubic centimetres. Nearly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyb Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Anyone involved in engineering will have seen apprentices coming into work and using centimetres instead of millimetres, a source of much aggravation because the teaching profession know nothing about the real world where centimetres are never used. Years ago I worked with a bloke who was good at heights. He would shout down trunking or conduit measurements, I would make the piece up and chuck it up to him. The trouble was, Jeff liked accuracy and I am long sighted, so he would want a piece making at 27 17/32" and I struggled to read the 32's scale on a tape measure. Worse, he had lost the first foot of his tape measure in an accident so I had to remember whether I should add a foot to his measurements, or take it off! Chaotic. Electricians went metric in 1971, so used conduit sizes approximately the same as the old imperial 3/4" and 1" i.e. 20mm and 25mm. The trouble was, the imbeciles at the Institute of Electrical Engineers and their cretin relatives at BSI had failed to understand that on the continent they used PG threads (you will never believe what PG stands for) so for years we never had the right thread adaptors for foreign equipment. Add to this the change in the cable colours made only to accomodate foreign electricians working here and you will wonder how anyone turning on a light stays safe! So, speedway bikes should weigh not less than 169lbs unfuelled and if you read American custom or hot rod magazines memorise 16.8. This converts cubic inches to cubic centimetres. Nearly. So what does PG stand for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy2706 Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 So what does PG stand for? Panzergewinde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGT Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 Meanwhile, as speedway gently meanders into the 21st Century, in a far flung corner of old England, someone is weighing a speedway bike to determine a definitive answer to post #1. Hopefully the result will be in Kgs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 Panzergewinde Ahh yes 'Das Panzers'. Would these be Generaloberst Heinz Wilhelm Guderian's 'Panzers' by any chance? Meanwhile, as speedway gently meanders into the 21st Century, in a far flung corner of old England, someone is weighing a speedway bike to determine a definitive answer to post #1. Hopefully the result will be in Kgs. Deliberate 'Wind Up' remark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGT Posted March 11, 2014 Report Share Posted March 11, 2014 Well spotted! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*JJ Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 Ahh yes 'Das Panzers'. Would these be Generaloberst Heinz Wilhelm Guderian's 'Panzers' by any chance? Panzer actually means 'armour'. Armoured threads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy2706 Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I understand that stahlpanzerrohrgewinde means steel conduit thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 (edited) I understand that stahlpanzerrohrgewinde means steel conduit thread? WOW!!!! :shock: I'd NEVER have guessed. Edited March 12, 2014 by The White Knight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch958 Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 i sympathise with people who have problems dealing with metric but really it is much much easier centimetres you will see in shops, etc but not in engineering where its millimetres and metres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.V 72 Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 I dont think that we will ever totaly change over.I work as a catering butcher most items are sold in kg;s but we sell steaks (sirloin/rump} at an each price and they are sold and asked for at 8oz 12 oz etc even though the weight ticket on each one is in grams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 I dont think that we will ever totaly change over.I work as a catering butcher most items are sold in kg;s but we sell steaks (sirloin/rump} at an each price and they are sold and asked for at 8oz 12 oz etc even though the weight ticket on each one is in grams. Probably by 'old fogies' like Me. :approve: I strongly supported the 'Metric Martyr', Steve Thoburn in his campaign to keep Imperial Weights and Measures. I STILL shop for my Fruit in his Shop today. Sadly Steve Thoburn passed away a few years ago - the Shop, though, is still in the Family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 i sympathise with people who have problems dealing with metric but really it is much much easier centimetres you will see in shops, etc but not in engineering where its millimetres and metres Anyone who struggles to convert between metres, centre metres and millimetres should be shot tbf. It's so easy and thats why they use metres and not feet. Amazingly though we still measure our height in feet. And nobody buys 568ml of beer please. Thats 0.568 litres if you prefer. Or a pint. The most confusing one is I buy my petrol (or diesel) in litres. But my car tells me how many miles per GALLON it does. and I measure everything in metres but I drive in miles and no km. So I should surely be working out my fuel consumption in metres per litre right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Anyone who struggles to convert between metres, centre metres and millimetres should be shot tbf. It's so easy and thats why they use metres and not feet. Amazingly though we still measure our height in feet. And nobody buys 568ml of beer please. Thats 0.568 litres if you prefer. Or a pint. The most confusing one is I buy my petrol (or diesel) in litres. But my car tells me how many miles per GALLON it does. and I measure everything in metres but I drive in miles and no km. So I should surely be working out my fuel consumption in metres per litre right? NEVER - Miles to the Gallon is the only way for a Briton. We have got far too much foreign crap over here as it is - without changing everything for them. Apparently there are more French living in London, I believe, than live in some French Cities. THIS is GREAT BRITAIN - we need to remember that. :approve: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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