Other countries still use imperial units. Brits use miles & MPH on their roadways.
Swedes use "tum" (thumb) for lumber size. 1 tum = 1 inch. The Swedes I was chatting with had a shocked look in their face when they realized their timber units are inches.
Some Canadians along the border still use imperial units. They don't care much for the metric system.
I use a lot on non-metric sockets. For example, on the pellet stove during the yearly maintenance session. One could use metric sockets but that would ruin the heads of the bolts over time. Same in the pump house down at the pool.
RG-6 and F connectors and such did not morph, so whatever they were when conceived, they still are.
7/16 was the original, and will likely carry through for good.SMA = 5/16.
TNC = bigger still...
N = huge! :-)
Yep.
Buy a Breckwell pellet stove and you'll be surprised :-)
And yeah, it's made in America.
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That reminds me of the day i saw dA-dt on a licence plate.
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Maybe I should get this vanity plate: *PHUT* :-)
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And that competes directly with "A pint's a pound, the world around."
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A pint of what? Scotch, maybe? 20 ounces Imperial is 1-1/4 pounds of water, more or less exactly. 16 US ounces of water is about 1.04 pounds.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Between pan folding the line and my Agent 6 reader the carets did not preserve the link. I could pick it up with a bit of shift key and cursor keys.
So much for that.
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Sorry about the broken link, hopefully the shortened one works now.
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No asterisks. Maybe you could get "PHUTTER". ;-)
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Sure, if you have a metric pinkie and a metric thumb.
Do those sizes take into account the inevitable dimensional changes that result from any mention of catheters?
Sylvia.
Oh, I forgot the best one: we are still donating blood by the pint.
Part of the reason is that one nautical mile is (about) 2000 yards, making lots of mental calculations much easier. It's formally defined as 1852 meters but that's kind of unwieldy for most people trying to do math in their head.
Also a nautical mile is 2000 yards to within 1% or so (6080 feet).
Cheers
Phil "Naval history fan" Hobbs
Strangely, in the UK we give a US pint of blood instead of the larger imperial measure.
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That's so you could go for a beer afterwards and come out ahead. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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