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metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 4:14:54 AM

adamkerrnz

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agree or disagree?

With the metric system it is a lot easier.

When i mix my fuels i dont need many calculations
e.g.
i want 15% nitro with 20% oil
ok... i want to make a litre of fuel so 1 litre = 1000ml

easy = 150ml nitro = 15%
200ml oil = 20%
650ml methanol =65%

All this adds up to 1000ml or a litre and wow we have 100%

i really do not get the imperial system at all!!!

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 5:45:06 AM

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Of course the metric system is easier but it's difficult to change old habits. The USA is the only country NOT using metrics (apart from two tiny African countries). Actually this isn't quite correct, the USA does use metrics in one area...money! It's only a matter of time before the USA falls in line with the rest of the world and converts fully to metrics and then there'll be a lot more home brewed fuels

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 12:52:17 PM

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adamkerrnz,

For a little amusement take a look at the "Making Fuel" thread elsewhere on this forum. Somebody was measuring with cups. I suggested the metric system. Then a Laboratory Scientist got involved and suggested measuring in "Glugs" Really, Glugs. It deteriorated from there.

Ed S

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 2:02:11 PM

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The U.S.A. is slowly converting to metric. Automobiles are built to the metric system for the most part. But many bolts such as the wheel lugs are American Standard. Some consumer foods are metric, soda is sold in liter's but milk is sold in quarts and gallons. The aerospace is converting to metric. I think consumer products partially swithched about 20 years ago and haven't changed since, but many hard goods are switching over with time. Metric is much easier, as long as you don't have to convert back and forth.

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 3:26:59 PM

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Totally topsie turvey here in the UK, you can buy a pint of beer but not a pound of fruit or veg. You drive in miles but the service intervals of your car are in Kms. Cable can be bought by the metre but cloth is sold by the yard!!

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/22/2004 11:05:05 PM

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For a long time the USA has been at the forefront of invention, innovation, and development of new ideas. "Why is this?", you ask. The answer is that the mental exercise we get from dealing with our nonsensical measurement systems has helped us to develop large, efficient fast brains. As the metric system becomes more and more common in the USA, we are getting mentally flabby and dropping down toward average level.

Please understand that I am joking, and mean no offense to anyone with a metric

brain.

Jim

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 9/23/2004 3:48:32 AM

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noo offins tayken

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/4/2004 10:27:11 PM

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ROFLMAO!!!!!!

Hey JIm even my metric brain found that hilarious

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/5/2004 8:48:00 AM

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Well you American still got it easier than us Europeans.
You're brought up using the Imperial system and many have easily learned the Metric system because of it's simplicity and logic.
We Europeans that are brought up with the Metric system do have soem difficulties converting things into Metric from Imperial.
Many posts on this forum is gallons, quarts, inches...Allright, that's OK, but then you start coding it like:

"3/16
"1-1/16
"3-1/8
.xx cid
15.7oz
1oz to a US pint

LOL, I ordered an engine from Tower and included some mounting hardware, I picked some bolts on random that looked OK in the picture, they were "4-40" and I thought, "Yeah, whatever!"
Got the engine and the bolts, the bolts were verry small

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/5/2004 1:09:03 PM

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This is one Amuurakin who likes and uses the metric system, I can identify an M4 bolt as easily as a 6-32. Occasionally the thread pitch gets me, my wife is a Pharmacy Technician so both of us find it easy.

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/5/2004 1:37:33 PM

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adamkerrnz,

How soon do you want that 1/4-32 glow plug thread to change?

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/6/2004 2:40:07 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: backfire
How soon do you want that 1/4-32 glow plug thread to change?

What's the thread size for the spark plugs in your car?

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 11/6/2004 6:16:55 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: downunder

quote:

ORIGINAL: backfire
How soon do you want that 1/4-32 glow plug thread to change?

What's the thread size for the spark plugs in your car?

Treads in car plug are M14x1.25

Metric glowplug treads will be M6.3x0.85, it will be same as "1/4-32.

Jens Eirik

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 12/2/2004 9:15:53 PM

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Actually, you don't have to go to metric to keep it simple. Just use ounces instead of percent when you measure the ingredients. For instance: when mixing fuel with 20% oil, and 10% nitro, use 20 ounces oil, 10 ounces nitro and the rest (70% or 70 ounces) alcohol. You end up with less than one gallon (100 ounces vs. 128 ounces). But it sure makes things a lot easier than trying to measure 1/4 ounce or .68 ounce.

Try it.

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 12/2/2004 9:30:20 PM

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I have to admit M6.3x0.85 is certainly easier to understand than 1/4x32, sure it is..........about as easy as women are to understand.

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RE: metric is easier!!! - 12/3/2004 5:17:40 PM