Re: in the USA - The Southern Part


"Joe" <nobody@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Joe" <nobody@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Luke Webber <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>>> > Peter McMurray wrote:
>>> >> Ah you noticed my deliberate mistake as Miss Kilmartin used to say
>>> >> when blackboard errors sneaked by :-) Liquid in bags now there's
>>> >> a thought. Ah yes! Adelaide Milk.
>>> >
>>> > Not necessarily liquid, Pete. The litre is a measure of volume, not
>>> > specific to fluids. It's not uncommon for potting mix to be sold in
>>> > bags measured by the litre.
>>> >
>>> > Luke
>>>
>>> Even here in the states, automobile engine displacement is measured
>>> in liters ("American" sp?), although it didn't used to be that way...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joe
>>
>> Hi Joe
>> If you want a real contradiction in that area, the UK that was
>> fiercely imperial until recently always measured engines in cubic
>> centimetres or litres in the '50s- so my Rudge Ulster was 500cc and my
>> Jag was 3 litre. However in Australia when I aarived they frequently
>> used cubic inches - probably because they were importing US engines to
>> build monsters like Alan Moffat's Bathurst winning Ford.
>> Now of course we have to worry about US measure and SI, my system has
>> to cope with imported oils in US quarts and local oils in litre packs.
>> Regards
>> Peter
>
> Peter, I believe you're correct with regards to cubic inches down under,
> but I've always wondered where the kW rating (rather than horsepower)
> came from.
>
> Regards,
> Joe
Hi
Technically it is Systeme Internationale which is colloquially known as
Bruce pointed out as Metric but causes great confusion to a lot of Europeans
who grew up with the French Napoleonic Metric. It gives precise unambiguous
international values for measurement. What a pity the NASA Mars probe guys
didn't check that they were all singing from the same song book - plop went
a billion bucks.
I do a lot of volume and pressure calculations for sorting out my farm
pumps, and constantly confuse myself between psi and bar and kilopascals or
horse power and kilowatts so I always write it down and double check it. It
is not aided by some old firms still talking about gallons (imperial) and
horsepower. A recent stuff up was caused by the delivery of a pump which
some bright spark in Melbourne put a 600 kpa limiter on. We installed it to
pump up to a tank 75 vertical metres above on the hill. Lo and behold the
pump worked but the water never arrived then we saw the tiny print on the
limiter! Replace limiter with one of the proper size and bingo water
appeared at the other end.
Regards
Peter


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