Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?

It's just as bad for me! All I ever use is metric so trying to estimate
things like diameters and such in imperial is nigh on impossible, that's not
even including the fraction side of things. Wasn't there some big mistake
recently where a probe was given it's co-ordinates in imperial by one team
and then metric by the other... darn conversions. I bet that was embarrasing
for them.
'So... what's are 30 million dollars worth of probe found this week? I hope
it's good, it'll be the only one we can afford to send this year.'
'Well... erm... err... I sort of lost it sir.'
It's obvious, we should all use metric! : )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?


> Hmmm., Next time I go to the newsagents for a quarter pound of toffees
I'll
> ask for a Newton of toffees instead and see what reaction I get. These
> newfangled measurements are all right in a laboratory I suppose but some
of
> us old 'uns are still working in pounds, stones and pecks! (Except for my
> watchmaking where I use milligrams, carats, grains and nanometres,
> millimetres and lignes - now you want me to add to the confusion??? I feel
> another Apollo 13 coming on ;o{
> )
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <e.heritage@...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: 21 February 2001 22:02
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?
>
>
> > 10 Newtons is a kilo, they're 100 grams each. And a newton meter is just
> the
> > measurement of torque on a lever's pivot. I thought it'd be easier
because
> > more things would be rated for their max. torque (Distance x Mass). I
hate
> > levers anyway, no matter how essential they are to life.
> >
> > John
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
> > To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: gm-cm to oz/inches conversion?
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <e.heritage@...>
> > >
> > > > Why aren't steppers measure in newton meters of torque? It'd be
easier
> > for
> > > > everyone wouldn't it?
> > >
> > > So what's them then??? I know what an ounce is and an inch and I can
> make
> > an
> > > arm 'x' inches long and hang a weight of 'y' ounces on it but I'm
damned
> > if
> > > I've ever seen a Newton I could hang on a metre long bar. Might as
well
> > use
> > > Btu's per fortnight - just as understandable as Newton metres.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian
> > > --
> > > Ian W. Wright
> > > Sheffield UK
> > > www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
> > >
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