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Posted by RAB on August 06, 2003 at 01:10:10 from (195.93.50.8):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Belarus tractors - posted by Rod F. on August 05, 2003 at 21:25:40:
Hi Rod,
Hectares to acre conversion is 2.471. So I should have said 2.5, I suppose - no need for a precision of 1 in 2500 for a practical topic like that, I suppose.
Btw the 2.54 is inches to centimetres conversion.
However, this post is now getting too far down the page to continue, so I'll find one a bit nearer the top with which to be controversial!
I too am not regarded as 'normal' but slightly eccentric as I collect Olivers, Cletracs (one I call Alice 'cos the commentators keep referring to it as an Allis Chalmers as it's orange) and stationary engines, along with the odd motorbike, sock knitting machine etc. etc.
I too use the Imperial or American Standard systems, as most of my stuff is non-metric, but with bolts in Whitworth, UNC, UNF, Standard US, BA, BSF, cycle thread, Acme, Miniature engineering thread, Metric and others, I find a thread gauge as important as the 'digi' for sorting them out!
I just like to reply to those who refer to viable alternative systems as 'crap', instead of admitting their bias to the one they grew up with, or whatever.
I don't get uptight about it, just fight my corner, whichever it might be. When it's gone I move on. Life is too short. These old machines used the best technology available at the time (well most did). An awful lot of that technology has been re-invented by modern-day manufacturers and claimed as 'new', not 'improved' now that technology allows these old inventions to be better designed/utilised. Now, how many of these get uptight when you remind them it was invented by someone else 75 years ago, or whatever, and suggest they have just copied and updated it?
Regards, Have fun and happy engineering, metric or otherwise. RAB
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