Imperial Measures - Page 4

torque2me · 30th May 2022, 09:12

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Originally Posted by mbev51

Better for maths means harder for kids to do. Maby kids struggle with the .uch watered down GCSE maths as it is without making things unnecessarily harder.

Well, I took maths exams in 1972 and it was, I believe, the first paper to refer to metric for Q's & A's.

Kev

YHT · 30th May 2022, 16:56

We use a mix; the pipe threads are imperial (I think), the metric ones some 60 years ago were odd. Better to use BSP or API tapered on pipes. Oil is still traded internationally in Barrles and gas in therms.

macafee2 · 30th May 2022, 21:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by YHT

We use a mix; the pipe threads are imperial (I think), the metric ones some 60 years ago were odd. Better to use BSP or API tapered on pipes. Oil is still traded internationally in Barrles and gas in therms.

Is BSP (British standard Pipe) used anywhere other then the UK?

macafee2

mbev51 · 31st May 2022, 07:44

I cannot really see much of a reversal in our current situation.i suspect most of it is hot air, we have enough on our plate at the moment.
Im just about to order 5l of castrol and will shortly be filling up with 45l of expensive diesel.

torque2me · 31st May 2022, 08:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbev51

I cannot really see much of a reversal in our current situation.i suspect most of it is hot air, we have enough on our plate at the moment.
Im just about to order 5l of castrol and will shortly be filling up with 45l of expensive diesel.

Agreed, IU will slowly reduce in practice and us 'old un's' stop (hem, hem) using them. That is what any common sense person would have done had they been allowed to. All one had to do was introduce it into education and everything else would fall into place, albeit it slowly.

Personally, I prefer 8 pints of oil for my oil changes as it leaves a few mm (

) over for a final top-up.

Kev

Borg Warner · 31st May 2022, 09:08

Electricity cable has been in metric since well before the EU, from domestic installations all the way up to distribution and transmission networks. Somehow doubt sparkies will be reverting to a little bit of 7/.029 T&E or mains cable jointers booking out 50 yrds of 0.1Cu SWA.

The Government said it would revue quite a number of EU "stuff" ages ago, suspect this just more winding folks up by their political enemies and not least the media.

Clearly it's working.

KWIL · 31st May 2022, 10:44

Surely the simple solution is to permit the use of Imperial alongside Metric rather than the previous EU dictat of Metric only.

I have never really understood why motorway signs are in metric (300 m to turnoff etc) when the speed limit is Imperial.

mbev51 · 31st May 2022, 11:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by KWIL

Surely the simple solution is to permit the use of Imperial alongside Metric rather than the previous EU dictat of Metric only.

I have never really understood why motorway signs are in metric (300 m to turnoff etc) when the speed limit is Imperial.

Yes its just stupid, we need to have one cohesive system that is taught in schools and used by all.

Mick Brownhill · 31st May 2022, 11:13

I have always believed - if it is not broken don't fix it. Exports and inports are difficult enough at present without complicating it.

macafee2 · 31st May 2022, 11:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by KWIL

Surely the simple solution is to permit the use of Imperial alongside Metric rather than the previous EU dictat of Metric only.

I have never really understood why motorway signs are in metric (300 m to turnoff etc) when the speed limit is Imperial.

Are you sure, I thought they were in yards.
Still yards on the Give Way signs when there is the distance underneath.

macafee2

31st May 2022, 11:13	#39
Mick Brownhill Regional Secretary, Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire 75 Saloon Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sheffield Posts: 342 Thanks: 119 Thanked 52 Times in 28 Posts	Metric I have always believed - if it is not broken don't fix it. Exports and inports are difficult enough at present without complicating it.

30th May 2022, 16:56	#32
YHT Loves to post Rover 75 Saloon Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: suffolk Posts: 264 Thanks: 46 Thanked 25 Times in 23 Posts	We use a mix; the pipe threads are imperial (I think), the metric ones some 60 years ago were odd. Better to use BSP or API tapered on pipes. Oil is still traded internationally in Barrles and gas in therms.

31st May 2022, 07:44	#34
mbev51 Banned Removed Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Removed Posts: 1,343 Thanks: 171 Thanked 315 Times in 223 Posts	I cannot really see much of a reversal in our current situation.i suspect most of it is hot air, we have enough on our plate at the moment. Im just about to order 5l of castrol and will shortly be filling up with 45l of expensive diesel.

31st May 2022, 09:08	#36
Borg Warner I really should get out more....... None Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Suffolk Posts: 2,579 Thanks: 494 Thanked 657 Times in 402 Posts	Electricity cable has been in metric since well before the EU, from domestic installations all the way up to distribution and transmission networks. Somehow doubt sparkies will be reverting to a little bit of 7/.029 T&E or mains cable jointers booking out 50 yrds of 0.1Cu SWA. The Government said it would revue quite a number of EU "stuff" ages ago, suspect this just more winding folks up by their political enemies and not least the media. Clearly it's working.

31st May 2022, 10:44	#37
KWIL Precise Rover 75 Tourer 2.5KV6 Connoisseur SE Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Fleet Posts: 2,954 Thanks: 630 Thanked 617 Times in 480 Posts	Surely the simple solution is to *permit* the use of Imperial alongside Metric rather than the previous EU dictat of Metric only. I have never really understood why motorway signs are in metric (300 m to turnoff etc) when the speed limit is Imperial.