Are you still imperial?

[dbulmer]

Kompressor,
We do have a cunning plan however. In order to get to a dive site your car may have to be filled in gallons BTW not the US gallon ! and while you're thinking of the difference you may indeed have driven many miles.

Alas Kompressor we do have less enlightened souls who use the A clamp but at least the depth of their misery can be measured in metres - note the spelling BTW - someone who is English and spells litres/metres incorrectly deserves time in hell or failing that, a dive in Wraysbury (a site which has lots of muck and very little to see- a real muck fest!).

Of course, I say this tongue in cheek but the UK is moving ever closing to full adoption of the metric system. It's only a question of time before some cheap yukky Frenchman decides we have to drive on on the wrong side of the road

 

[Kim]

Kim,
That would be litres old bean

Not in America!

Trying to argue the metric case would become impossible if we expected them to stomach English spelling as well!!! :11:

(by the way....I teach English, so I do know exactly what I'm doing here! You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get decent British English text books for students. I positively refuse to use the American English ones!)

 

[Don Burke]

Sorry to disappoint you Don ...

Actually, the point was that just because something is decimal does not make it metric.

I have no idea where you got the idea that I think there is no metric in the automotive or firearms worlds.

The truck with the aforementioned spark plugs requires me to own two full sets of tools. Changing the oil takes a 9/16 wrench, but removing the rocker arm covers takes a 10mm wrench. The majority of repairs are going to involve a 15mm wrench at some point, unless it is front brake work which requires a 3/4 socket and a 3/8 Allen wrench. There are also many Torx fasteners, but that is another thread.

The scope on the aforementioned .30-06 has an objective lens diameter specified in millimeters. If you are especially curious about the number, I will go look for you.

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

I just noticed the caliber of my new Marlin 356 is 30-30! :06: Can I still fire it at the cute little brown deers, although I live here in Norway you think?

Will it be "enough"?...

 

[Wayward Son]

Only if you convert it in your head before taking the shot

The USA tried to convert in the 1970's. Didn't take.

Metric is a logical system. Easier to work with to do math in your head. But only if the units mean anything. This thread is the 1st time I've seen the term BAR explained, or what the liter capaity of a tank is (I though it meant so many liters of air, which is meaningless to me). I still have no feel for them, diving for me has been cubic feet & PSI for over 30 years. BARs and liters are not how I think.

While I know the metric system (I lived in Turkey for 5 years), I don't use it day in & day out. I think in imperial units bc that's what we use. The fact that I do know those units, they mean something to me, makes the imperial system superior to me, for my day in & day out use. Not bc it's any better, but bc that's the map that exists in my brain.

I wouldn't be totally opposed to making the conversion to metric here, but if we did chaos would reign supreme for quite a while. Sometimes we're doing good to get people to do simple math with their shoes on, so going to a base 10 system is not a guarantee that they'll do any better than they do now

 

[Don Burke]

I just noticed the caliber of my new Marlin 356 is 30-30! :06: Can I still fire it at the cute little brown deers, although I live here in Norway you think?

Will it be "enough"?...

As long as you are not asking for very long range shots, the .30-30 is fine on deer. Many around here refer to a .30-30 as a "brush gun" since it is usually light enough to lug for hours on end and has enough punch for shots out to the two hundred yards or so the brush allows. People who know no better think "brush gun" means the bullet can punch through brush well.

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

Litres/liters are really easy! Just think of a 350 cui engine. Now that's 5,7 liters/litres. Nothing to it really...

The engine of my truck is 6,2 litres/liters... Now what would that be? Yes, 1,3 liters pr 10 km = Expensive to drive!

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

As long as you are not asking for very long range shots, the .30-30 is fine on deer. Many around here refer to a .30-30 as a "brush gun" since it is usually light enough to lug for hours on end and has enough punch for shots out to the two hundred yards or so the brush allows. People who know no better think "brush gun" means the bullet can punch through brush well.

Our deers are really small, so 30-30 is plenty good

 

[dbulmer]

Kompressor,
Oh My God - you wanna shoot Bambi - tut - course you'll need to learn how to do it the deer (DIR) way

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

Shoot it and eat it too!