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Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Level42 on March 10, 2007, 06:39:30 pm ---Fozzy, Metric is the word's standard. Get used to it.
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Actually NO! It isn't the worlds standard..... It's a crappy European standard.
The USA Uses Imperial Feet and Inches.... Most of the UK with half a brain uses Imperial Feet and Inches... India uses Imperial Feet and Inches, and mostly so does China by the way, along of course with Russia. Also along with numerous other countries. So given that that covers most of the worlds population, you can't describe metric as a WORLD standard.
As for Euros HA! HA HA!!! :laugh2: Don't make me laugh.... you're welcome to those as well. How are your Euros doing on the world market at the moment??? No good eh?? LOL ROFLMAO :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :cheers:
And what do you mean, "Fozzy's indications are correct (at least, close enought for every day's practice)" !?? My indications were EXACT, not just close enough... He asked what size T-molding to use for specific metric timber thicknesses. As T-Molding ONLY comes in imperial sizes the answer I gave him was EXACT. For 18mm MDF you use 3/4" T-molding.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
blueznl:
Sorry, but China is metric. And so is Russia.
You may want to have a peek at this: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: blueznl on March 11, 2007, 07:19:24 pm ---Sorry, but China is metric. And so is Russia.
You may want to have a peek at this: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm
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Sorry to inform you more accurately than that site.... But I'm afraid a lot of the information in there is plain wrong.......
China actually use the imperial measurement system as well as their original weights and measures system. That accounts for over 70% of their weights and measures. They do use metric when they are exporting to Japan and Western Europe. Internally in general they don't.
Russia, that's an interesting one...... they use metric about 50% of the time but only when what they are doing is impacted on by the need to use foreign components. The figures on that site are just plain wrong.
The site you pointed at has very very distorted figures, that are mostly based on who has legislated that a country should use a particular system. That doesn't mean that the people of that country actually use it.
If you believe that site, then I wouldn't use Imperial measurements and neither would anybody I work with. It simply isn't the case that the UK uses Metric as a measurement system. Except when we have to! which should tell you something about how popular it is, given that we were supposed (according to legislation) to have been using it for the last 37 years!
On top of that... that site is published by the US Metric Association... a bunch of cretinous lunatic lobbyists who are trying to get the whole of the USA to use metric measurements..... SO Which way do you think their figures will be overly biased?? :cheers:
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Grasshopper:
I did mechanical engineering at school and if we'd had to use imperial instead of metric, it would have massively complicated matters because of all the conversions you have to keep doing between the imperial system's many arbitrary and illogical bases like 8, 12 and 14. You don't have to worry about any of that crap with metric because everything is based on powers of 10.
It really makes little difference what measuring system you choose to use for everyday things. For example I still think in terms of miles per hour, pints of beer etc. But for science and engineering calculations, the imperial system is an archaic joke.
That being said, I do get very irritated over the way that the EU attempts to force metric on everyone. Prosecuting people who insist on using the imperial system (even if they are misguided) is bloody ridiculous, draconian, and a waste of police resources in my opinion.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on March 11, 2007, 07:58:24 pm ---I did mechanical engineering at school and if we'd had to use imperial instead of metric, it would have massively complicated matters because of all the conversions you have to keep doing between the imperial system's many arbitrary and illogical bases like 8, 12 and 14. You don't have to worry about any of that crap with metric because everything is based on powers of 10.
It really makes little difference what measuring system you choose to use for everyday things. For example I still think in terms of miles per hour, pints of beer etc. But for science and engineering calculations, the imperial system is an archaic joke.
That being said, I do get very irritated over the way that the EU attempts to force metric on everyone. Prosecuting people who insist on using the imperial system (even if they are misguided) is bloody ridiculous, draconian, and a waste of police resources in my opinion.
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Your statements above are based on total and complete missunderstanding of the Imperial system.
In engineering we measure in 1000ths of an inch..... 0.001 of an inch. you don't have to do any conversions between bases whatsoever. It's already a decimal system. BASE 10
You are confusing Metric and Decimal..... Imperial is ALSO a decimal system. BASE 10
1/16th of an inch = 0.0625"
1/8th of an Inch = 0.125"
1/4 of an Inch = 0.25"
In science and high level engineering, we measure in Microns... Microns are an IMPERIAL measurement not a Metric one... But they're still Decimal. BASE 10
As for using Base 8, 12, and 14...... Not sure where you got the 14 one from. SINCE WHEN! the only thing that used that was the monitary system, and we certainly don't use that any more.
Imperial has some major advantages over Metric... One of them is that it has the choice built in to it, not to be a Base 10 system... Metric does not. In fact so much so, that I can give you some mathematical puzzles that CAN'T be answered in Metric, but can easily be answered in Imperial.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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