US imperialists and torque drivers

Yes. Ounce/inch is what is used most often for small fasteners.

Most that are used for small electronic assemblies.

There is a mil spec for US sizes,and I am fairly certain there would be US declared specs even for metric sized fasteners.

I found this, but it isn't the one I was looking for. It is the test method, which might have some values declared in it.

kgf? cm? The SI units are newtons and meters!

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John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc

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Kgf.cm? And you're trying to tweak us for not adhering to MKS?

Kgf is a bastard unit, for sure, and cm isn't exactly a meter on some even exponent of 1000 thereof.

So what's kgf?

That's not SI. SI would be newton-meters.

Kilogram force - the force of the weight of a kilogram, about 10 Newtons. It was also called a kilopond.

Hey, we knew that.

John Larkin, President Highland Technology, Inc

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Interesting that n-m is a unit of torque and a unit of energy.

John Larkin, President Highland Technology, Inc

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But not interesting that ft-lb is as well?

Newton-meters is torque, like pounds-feet.

Meter-newtons is energy, like foot-pounds.

You don't have that confusion in SI, because 1m * 1N = 1J. A number specified in newton metres is always a torque.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Why does all this metric stuff keep on changing and changing? Why can't they just keep a unit? IIRC the metric unit of pressure has had at least three designators over the last 50 years. Atmospheres, bars, pascals, whetever. You might not like the imperial units but a PSI has been a PSI pretty much since the pilgrims came over.

VA is a measure of energy and of power. Same thing, just the angle between the multiplied quantities.

Tim

What units do they fill tires/tyres/pneus with Over There?

John Larkin, President Highland Technology, Inc

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I suppose Joerg was tweaking you.

John Larkin, President Highland Technology, Inc

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