Hey Reddo me lad, It’s heartening to see you finally got 25mm on the right side of an inch.
You see, I toldya you’d like it once you got into it..
But I don’t think you should be slinging off at Col’s gozinta like that, it might upset him real bad.
Everyone has their favorite website for conversions I suppose,
here’s mine.
www.onlineconversion.comI’d forgotten all about quarters until groovy mentioned it, thanks for that mate..
But there’s about as much use for quarters now as a bushel and a peck, unless you’re reading old rego labels or wondering what those funny American coins are.
But it brings to mind one of the chants we did at school..
.. 16 oz equals a pound..
.. 14 pounds equals a stone..
.. 8 stone equals a furlong..
.. 16 furlongs equals a cup..(in Melbourne anyway)
.. and so on..
and how long is a cricket pitch.. by crikey..
Do you know why your nose is in the middle of your face?
Well, it’s like this..
Back in the 12th century King Henry 1 decreed that if you stretch out both arms and measure from thumb-tip to thumb-tip your nose would be in the centre.
(Scenter.. get it? Oh well..)
But from thumb-tip to nose, on Henry, is the origin of a yard.
I’ll leave the plumbing alone.. there’s no accounting for that, but what amazes me if how guys who profess to not having a clue about converting from one system to another can tell you in an instant how many MPG their car does.
And this is in an age when we’ve bought petrol in litres and had kilometres on our speedos for over 30 years.
Some of the rest of this is repeating some of what others have said, but Terry you’re both right and not right with your logic about a cwt (hundred weight) = 100 pounds.
We use(d) Imperial tons. One o’ them is 2240 pounds.
20 cwt to the ton so an Imperial cwt = 112 pounds.
But the American Short Ton is 2000 pounds.
They still have 20 cwt in their ton, so an American cwt is 100 pounds.
I hate to admit it but the American system always seemed more logical.
Maybe we got the extra 12 pounds as a bonus, sorta like a Baker’s Dozen?
Did you know, even though the UK has ‘officially’ been metric for many years it’s illegal to sell beer in any quantity other than pints or half pints?
Their speed limit signs are still in MPH, but that’s another story, it just means they need two scales on their speedos for when they chuff through the chunnel.
Do you remember the stick on conversion speedo labels we had back at change over time in the 70’s?
And one of the UK standard size milk bottles is 1.136 litres.. (work out what that is)
The troy ounce is exempt from metrication and is still a standard measure for jewellers and pennyweight (dwt), as a very small measure, is still used.
Why not ‘pwt’? It's ‘D’ as in penny.. Remember LSD before it was a drug?
Have you ever had a discussion with an American about when they might change to metric?
(America has been ‘officially’ metric since 1973, they just haven’t done anything since then)
Americans will tell you emphatically they will never use anything metric, then they give you a blank look when you mention dollars and cents..
The reason they won’t change is simple of course, it would put the price of petrol up.
Gallons are larger than litres, and we all know things are cheaper when you buy them in larger quantities.
I guess 600 cubic inches does sound a lot hornier than 4.9 litres
Won’t the confusion escalate when we change to metric time in 2020..
About registration Terry..
You’ll find the “No Brakes” requirement is for vans and trailers under 750 kg GTM, not 750 KG Tare.
Go here and check section 11
www.dotars.gov.au/transport/safety/road/bulletin/vsb1/index.aspx(Yeah yeah, I know whatcha thinking Reddo, Jim’s on about VSB-1 again, but there had to be some caravan content.. don't there?)