So what's 60mm in old money?

[Raggle]

Good news for those who are mathematically challenged. This Hong Kong firm has provided a conversion for you

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/60mm-2-4-11-OD-1mm-Thickness-72T-HSS-Circular-Slitting-Saw-Blade-/200837073666?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item2ec2d28b02

Ray

[Pete49]

Good news for those who are mathematically challenged. This Hong Kong firm has provided a conversion for you
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/60mm-2-4-11-OD-1mm-Thickness-72T-HSS-Circular-Slitting-Saw-Blade-/200837073666?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item2ec2d28b02

Ray

Beats 2.362198" I guess
Pete

[mattinker]

I'm sure that 2 4/11ths is going to be invaluable for my mental metric conversions!

[Rob.Wilson]

    you never used 11ths before Ray 

Rob

[Raggle]

Funny thing is, I'll always remember it! And by dint of simple arithmetic I'll know 30mm = 1-2/11",etc,etc...

Ray

[mklotz]

Why introduce such complexity when they could have used the patently obvious 2 & 46/127 ?

[trevoratxtal]

Has anyone realized that the standard imperial system is binary and can be represented directly in ones and zeros. the metric system cannot and has an inherent error try to give a third of one in decimal.
1/2, 1/4, 1/16,1/32,1/64,1/128. or any part thereof, is binary.
 
The world screwed up when it opted for Decimal, Octal would have been better.
Trev

[Raggle]

Ah, yes, the heady days in junior school (UK) adding up columns of pounds shillings and pence, Yards, feet and inches, Tons, hundredweights, stones, pounds and ounces, all with a vulgar fraction column if appropriate. Get beyond school and your employer would have one or more of these

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/comptometer.html

somewhere working out your wages (or you may be the operator of it, as my first wife was)

Even copying down your homework question from the blackboard was a herculean task and prone to error.

Marv rightly refers to this as the inferial system. Quite why the US grimly hangs on to it for linear measurement is a mystery. But then, we thought it was normal in those days.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, I must continue my search for that old school wooden rule marked in 11ths.

Ray

[Jonny]

Some industries still work in imperial in UK.
Having worked in it i used to convert over to metric unless thous up to 1" What gaffer didnt know, couldnt complain about.
I remember the old 50 bob note, threpenny bit etc and did pounds shilling and d at school.

Aluminium is still made and sold in imperial, thought that was pushing it 28 years ago.

I get dimensions from customers in US, i always convert to metric though theres an ever increasing amount that are changing to metric.

[mattinker]

We learnt all sorts of useful tables of measurement, from the back of the notebooks we had,

10 chains in a a furlong,
 8 furlongs one mile.

 A furlong being a a furrow-long, the distance that Oxen could plough without stopping for breath! I've never bothered to work out what a metric furlong is, I've only lived in France for thirty three years and I haven't needed it yet!

[lordedmond]

what about a rod , pole or perch , a bushel


a chain is easy its the distance between three wooden rods with two bits on top the same at the other end then some people in white come out and do a rain dance   

[mattinker]

A chain is 22yards, the length of a cricket pitch

[mklotz]

Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones?  Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge.

My favorite unit has always been the perch.  It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}.

The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide.

[mattinker]

what about a rod , pole or perch , a bushel


a chain is easy its the distance between three wooden rods with two bits on top the same at the other end then some people in white come out and do a rain dance   

Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the uptake some times! Didn't get you 'till the third time I read it!

[lordedmond]

Sorry about that its a warped Derbyshire Engineer's humour



Stuart

[Bluechip]

Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones?  Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge.

My favorite unit has always been the perch.  It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}.

The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide.

In Stones, Pounds or kg. Depends where the switch is if they're digital.
 
It's 'Plough' BTW   
Ellishly complicated, sorry ... 
http://www.sizes.com/units/ell.htm
Dave BC
 
 
 

[mklotz]

Aren't bathroom scales in the UK still calibrated in stones?  Stones always seemed such a perfect unit for the folks who built Stonehenge.

My favorite unit has always been the perch.  It evokes a mental picture of crazed, Monty Pythonesque, rag-clad peasants madly measuring a field with an enormous fish [named Wanda, no doubt}.

The acre, supposedly the area of land a man could plow in a day, was 40 perch long and 4 perch wide.

It's 'Plough' BTW   
http://www.sizes.com/units/ell.htm
Dave BC

which you lot undoubtedly pronounce as "pluff" so it rhymes with "tough".

But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?

[mattinker]

[/quote]

which you lot undoubtedly pronounce as "pluff" so it rhymes with "tough".

But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?
[/quote]

It's a bit like you pronounce Solder "soder" and "soldier" soldier idiomatic! Plough on!

[75Plus]

Trying to figure out the old French Ligne and Pouce explains why France invented the metric system.  The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne) which is 1/12 of a pouce.

Joe

[Bluechip]

Matt .. I pronounce solder as just that, solder ...    with an 'L'
Marv .. 'plough'  is ploff, rhymes with 'cough' ... 
Don't know if you are aware of this, I believe attributed to G B Shaw ..
'GHOTI'  is ' FISH'
'gh' is 'f' as in 'enough'
'o' is 'i' as in 'women'
'ti' is 'sh' as in 'nation'
Dave BC
 
 
 
 
 

[Pete W.]

SNIP

But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?

As someone once said : 'Who but the English would write "FIRE" on a bucket and then fill it with water?'    

Best regards,

Pete W.

[Raggle]

Marv said:

But then what can one expect of a country where "hundredweights" weigh 112 pounds?

Easy enough. A weight is 1lb 1 & 23/25 ozs. Just a hundred of 'em.

Ray

[DMIOM]

....
As someone once said : 'Who but the English would write "FIRE" on a bucket and then fill it with water?'    

Best regards,

Pete W.

And who would have a button on a computer marked [Start] that you had to click to Stop the computer?

Dave

[lordedmond]

which USA company put up the error code on a DOS  Os

"keyboard not connected press F1 to continue"   


Stuart

[Deko]

 F1  Is'nt that going round in circles very fast ????.

Cheers Dek.