Fuel Economy

[opus]

I have an 8.3 and get 8-9 on the big road, mountains and all. I run it about 2000rpm which gives me 62mph-ish.

[crazycal]

Originally Posted by nat_ster

We all hate metric.

A friend calls the metric side of a tape measure the french side. Lol

Nat

Originally Posted by jazty

Edit: Obligatory Oatmeal comic (he's American, btw )

http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/science

Both very funny.

[Tango]

Hey...CONVERTING things is what we are all about here!

[nat_ster]

However, I do use metric when doing chemistry projects.

Nat

[crazycal]

I don't know if anyone saw the equation in the cartoon. 5 medium sized gerbil penises = 1 inch.

[Scooternj]

Originally Posted by crazycal

I don't if anyone saw the equation in the cartoon. 5 medium sized gerbil penises = 1 inch.

It's The Oatmeal. He does weird $h!t like that. Or this

[EastCoastCB]

I will say that for MACHINING and fine measurements, the inch is still king. It can be divided many more times than the millimeter.

[texasrednek]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

I will say that for MACHINING and fine measurements, the inch is still king. It can be divided many more times than the millimeter.

Being a machinist and having worked with both metric and standard metric is much more accurate. .001 inches is 25.4 times larger than .001 millimeters. Or .001mm = .00025"

[EastCoastCB]

Not according to my Welsh machinist.

[family wagon]

Oh yeah, well MY lithografist (what do you call the people who work in the lithography part of semiconductor manufacturing, anyway??) says they always use meters. It was microns, aka um or micrometers for a long time, but people got tired of saying things like .023 microns and finally started calling it 23 nm/nanometers when referring to the minimum feature size on an integrated circuit process node.

Electronics is a funny industry. It's mostly done in SI units, including meters for measuring everything about integrated chip sizing... the one stand-out exception is connectors/package sizing. 0.1 inch pitch for pin spacing is, or was, extremely common.

I think what the machinist friend might really mean is that most of his work comes dimensioned in inches, and it's therefore most convenient to do his work in inches too. Inches aren't inherently more easily divisible; what's really going on is that it's just a pain to do processing in one unit for a deliverable that's specified in the other unit. It might also be the case that most of the tools a machinist uses have their primary scale in inches, so there's a preference to keep the work in inches throughout.

[texasrednek]

I just say 23 microns probably a Cary over from saying 23 thousandths or 23 grand.....we talk funny I know. I won't dispute some one told you that east coast but math can't be wrong. And microns are a much finer measurement than thousandths. I will say I prefer working in standard but that's because I used standard for 15 years before I had to use metric. Working at caterpillar all of their prints are metric to make them all the same in all the manufacturies. It was a nightmare at first but you get used to it after a while.

[Stu & Filo. T]

I usally go by the just a smigen or go yay much or just a hair

[family wagon]

Originally Posted by allwthrrider

I usally go by the just a smigen or go yay much or just a hair

My family (father and grandfather) measures with smigens mostly, but we measure with whiskers too sometimes. I'm actually not certain between whisker and hair which is larger..

[Timelord]

Originally Posted by family wagon

My family (father and grandfather) measures with smigens mostly, but we measure with whiskers too sometimes. I'm actually not certain between whisker and hair which is larger..

Depends if you are talking Metric Whiskers or Standard.

[Stu & Filo. T]

Originally Posted by family wagon

My family (father and grandfather) measures with smigens mostly, but we measure with whiskers too sometimes. I'm actually not certain between whisker and hair which is larger..

Just a tad bit is used the most

[M1031A1]

Originally Posted by family wagon

My family (father and grandfather) measures with smigens mostly, but we measure with whiskers too sometimes. I'm actually not certain between whisker and hair which is larger..

My now deceased grandpa used to say "Give it a tap", or if more aggressive, "Give it a nudge", or if a REAL adjustment was needed he'd say "Give 'er a good shove". If none of that worked, he'd get what he called his BFH, Big F****** Hammer (25 pounder (11 kilo for those "frenchies")) and give it a good pounding, um, "kilo"ing??? PCBS can be hilarious at times......

BTW Family Wagon, a hair is actually just slightly smaller in diameter than a whisker due to the fact whiskers are usually tactile in origin giving the whisker a stiffer construction to alert via the nervous system of an environmental stimulation.... Oops, I went into medic AND teacher mode...........

[Tango]

Hmmmm....then based on what I've read, an "RCH" must belong to the Imperial system?

[crazycal]

Originally Posted by Tango

Hmmmm....then based on what I've read, an "RCH" must belong to the Imperial system?

Maybe not. Could mean Redhead.

[jazty]

Hahah.. this has all become SOOOOO off topic, but I love it. An educational and funny read!

[nat_ster]

Originally Posted by texasrednek

Being a machinist and having worked with both metric and standard metric is much more accurate. .001 inches is 25.4 times larger than .001 millimeters. Or .001mm = .00025"

We don't use standard in machining here at all.

All the CNC machines here use nothing but metric.

The millimeter can be divided far more times than any inch.

Nat