Captain Colonial Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Discuss. Imperial measurement review to mark Jubilee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 IME it's EU red tape that has never been enforced or adhered to anyway. Also inconsistent with volume and distance measurements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Everall Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Is it April 1st? Totally ridiculous waste of time and energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 The first time I went to Ireland in 1990, speed limits were in mph and distances in km. Or the other way round, can't remember which. At work, I use both imperial and metric measurements. Nuts and bolts are in mm, but screws are imperial. Not many people know what a 3/4, 8, panhead is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Our country is just odd. We buy fuel in litres, but measure consumption in mpg, drive miles, drink pints of beer, litres of juice, ml/cl of wine, etc etc. I struggle to think in imperial for things like weights and measures, but am hard wired to understand mpg, mph and road miles. We should have went fully metric back in ‘71 when the coinage changed and locked up the luddites 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I think we do (weather) temperature measurement the best, if it’s chilly, we use Centigrade, but then as soon as it gets a bit warmer, we swap to Fahrenheit! So it can be 70 degrees in the day, and -2 degrees over night! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Faulkner Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 No man has ever impressed the ladies with 225mm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenh Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 The really bizarre one is surely tyre sizes (ignoring racing sizes, at least) where the diameter at the rim is in inches, but the tyre width is in millimetres. So how crazy is that? and presumably it is the same on the continent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 17 hours ago, Stu Faulkner said: No man has ever impressed the ladies with 225mm. Plenty of EU expats over here (especially in London) who know exactly what they are getting in metric... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 On 29/05/2022 at 13:14, Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO said: The first time I went to Ireland in 1990, speed limits were in mph and distances in km. Or the other way round, can't remember which. At work, I use both imperial and metric measurements. Nuts and bolts are in mm, but screws are imperial. Not many people know what a 3/4, 8, panhead is. I do and buy them at work.. The trouble is that now a no.8 screw is saying being called 5mm but then gets called M5 which of course it isn't...! However nothing wrong with mixing units to suit ourselves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Mole said: However nothing wrong with mixing units to suit ourselves... I was once told that something measured 21 inches 3mm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SootySport Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 I grew up using both, just leave things as they are. Always thought it was strange buying wood, 2m of 2" by 4" seemed funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 12 hours ago, Mole said: However nothing wrong with mixing units to suit ourselves... Didn’t that get NASA into trouble a few years back? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288-story.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonWest - Chris Broster - Bristol & Bath AO Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 12 hours ago, Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO said: I was once told that something measured 21 inches 3mm. When we bought the first Apache helicopters from the US, UK required Rolls Royce engines to be fitted to US airframe - issue is US in inches and UK in mm - hence aircraft was delivered with 'fuzzy metric' i.e. distance is 101.6mm or in US terms 4" made for interesting reading of the tech pubs! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonWest - Chris Broster - Bristol & Bath AO Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Kingster said: Didn’t that get NASA into trouble a few years back? Aye, the straight conversions of a part were not an issue it was the multiple conversions and cumulative errors across assemblies and systems that got them into trouble. And in one case of too tight fit requiring an adjustment of ONE part, BOTH manufacturers adjusted (one smaller the other larger) leading to a loose fit and a LEAK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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