^ I think Catalina WOW is referring to another superfan of metric when he said that. The one from UK. Another country that changed from imperial to metric in recent history.
Maybe you guys are jealous that America still uses imperial and no one other than you guys care, lol.
yes, I looked up the conversion factor to gallons, after I posted last time.
And reason you did not know this is because it is not very important to you.
I wouldn't have known that one, back in the day, because we used different gallons.
I probably could have worked it out by looking at an old (1940s) "44 gallon" drum, which often had the US gallon equivalent marked on it as well
That said, I wouldn't have been able to pull the cu ft to Imp gallon conversion out of my head, either.
Your country changed to metric, officially, and what did that do for you guys? Is your country enlightened, spiritually? Is it now the center of science and commerce as a result? Did this improve your education rate and standard of living?
It meant a few less things for kids to have to learn, It did help business, as every conversion costs time.
It was a bonus for trade, as we can, for instance, sell a product in a 200 litre drum to both the UK, India, the EU, & the USA, without having to specially mark the thing in litres, Imperial, & US gallons.
The customers only need to know one conversion, no conversion, & one conversion respectively.
You have life so good now, right? Your kids walk just km to school. Your grandpa had to walk miles.
I'm probably the same generation as your grandpa!
You can now convert cubic meters to liters without a calculator
Anyone always could, or cu ft to gallons (or "customary" gallonettes').
They could either do it the long way or use log tables---- it just took a little longer!
OMG, so nice. No more, you wake up in the middle of the night when you realize, "Oh, sheet. Did he mean imperial gallon or dry gallon?"
The answer is obvious to anyone brought up in the real Imperial system.
The dry gallon was obsolete even back in the dark ages when I went to school!
This new world of yours must be amazeball.
New?---- we changed over 42 years ago only old farts like myself remember working things out in Imperial!
You wake up and your square meters of lawn in so much greener than feet. And the best part? Penis. Now 2.54x bigger!
I was depressed, today. But now, I am optimistic for a metric future. Every single day, I have been oppressed by inches and pounds. It will be so good to leave these imperial problems behind and assimilate into the utopian metric future of human enlightenment. Soon we will have world peace and a flying car in every garage.
I think half of the metric fans think that US converting to metric will mean they don't need to buy SAE wrenches anymore. And even if American did, that will not happen.
The weird thing is that spanners (wrenches) in Oz stopped being marked "SAE" back in the 1950s
They are commonly known as "AF"(across flats).
Of course, not only SAE nuts & bolts use those sizes---UNF & UNC, which are, at least "semi-compatible" with SAE use the same sizes
Metric spanners are "across flats", too, but we don't call them "AF".
By the way, why am I the "nasty commie Metric person"?
I set out to show
Zero999 that it isn't at all hard to work on feet & inches, given the incredibly easy dimensions in his example.
I only needed one conversion to get my answer, so it is easy enough to work in Imperial, provided you stay in one level of units, preferably the largest ones appropriate.