carbonboy Posted August 18, 2011 Report Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) ^^^ Just top up the tank & give her a quick oil & filter change would ya mate? :wink: Edited August 18, 2011 by carbonboy Quote
Redwarf Posted August 18, 2011 Report Posted August 18, 2011 They use 3 quarts a day per engine, oil tank holds 18 quarts. Gets an oil change by itself every 6 days. :) Quote
Evan G Posted August 18, 2011 Report Posted August 18, 2011 quarts? imperial? fractions? what is this? m12X1.5 ahh i understand, 3/4UNF20 :blinks: Quote
Redwarf Posted August 18, 2011 Report Posted August 18, 2011 Live in jet land and you use nothing but imperial. Even the French Airbus' (Airbusii?) have imperial nuts and bolts through them. My work box contains no metric tools at all. Quote
carbonboy Posted August 18, 2011 Report Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) They use 3 quarts a day per engine, oil tank holds 18 quarts. Gets an oil change by itself every 6 days. :) quarts? imperial? fractions? what is this? m12X1.5 ahh i understand, 3/4UNF20 :blinks: My brain just imploded... 8/ Edit: It's not the existence/use of Imperial that gets me, it's the having to do the conversions on the fly. Where's that damn conversion table? :wink: Airbuses? :P Edited August 18, 2011 by carbonboy Quote
7shades Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 Live in jet land and you use nothing but imperial. Even the French Airbus' (Airbusii?) have imperial nuts and bolts through them. My work box contains no metric tools at all. I'm curious to know why that's still the case. Can we just blame the yanks (as per usual) for stubbornly clinging to their arbitrary and increasingly irrelevant system of measurement instead of adopting the globally recognised and universal base-10 metric system? I mean its just them and Burma really. Surely the rest of the planet could politely tell them to get a wriggle on. PS. How many rods to the hogshead does one of those bad boys get Quote
ke70dave Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 its the same in the piping industry. we still use the original imperial systems, we have even added metric tags to the imperial sizes. eg: a DN100 pipe, is a common size, that has an overall diameter of 114.3mm (4"). not 100mm OD as you would expect. a DN15...is 21.3mm OD...go figure. who knows why it is, i guess there was SOOO much crap built when imperial was the norm, that is still running (eg both refineries in brisbane are built in the 60's) changing everything to metric is just not an option. even if you started by saying "right, any new stuff will be metric", how do you join to the old stuff? then you will need twice as many spare parts (both metric and imperial) while we wait for everything imperial to be decommissioned... not to mention that anyone that produces anything for these industries (that is currently in imperial) would need to modify their machinery etc, sounds like its just been put into the "too hard basket" Quote
Spencer[RL] Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 I thought imperials were for gypsy's?? what is the wizardry you speak of? :happy: Quote
Taz_Rx Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 eg: a DN100 pipe, is a common size, that has an overall diameter of 114.3mm (4"). not 100mm OD as you would expect. a DN15...is 21.3mm OD...go figure. Hmm, so our rolla's actually have an imperial stud pattern! Quote
7shades Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 Hmm, so our rolla's actually have an imperial stud pattern! PCD around the world is a headf*ck. Early rollas, metric. (4x110) Late rwd, imperial (4x114.3/4.5") FWD, metric. (4/5x100mm) Then if you head over to Europe its all over the place... 108 is 4.25", but then there's 120mm, 112mm, 98mm... Quote
Redwarf Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 PS. How many rods to the hogshead does one of those bad boys get In cruise they do about 980kg of fuel per hour per engine. On take off about 3 tonne per hour per engine. BNE- SYD is about 3.2 tonne trip, or about 4000 litres total. Quote
irokin Posted August 19, 2011 Report Posted August 19, 2011 Is my maths right... that works out to 2.1L/100km/PAX when full? Prius whaaat? Quote
SLO-030 Posted August 20, 2011 Report Posted August 20, 2011 Edit: It's not the existence/use of Imperial that gets me, it's the having to do the conversions on the fly. Where's that damn conversion table? :wink: Have to do all that at work day in/day out. Using both imp and metric drills helps when something needs a little clearance :P Just remember the basic ones and for the rest refer to the comparison chart 1/4" = 6.35mm 5/16 = 7.9mm 3/8 = 9.5 mm 7/16 = 11.11mm 1/2 = 12.7mm 9/16 = 14.2mm 5/8 = 15.875mm 3/4 = 19.05mm 7/8 = 22.2mm 1" = 25.4mm don't give me that >> :huh: look :P Quote
carbonboy Posted August 20, 2011 Report Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) Using both imp and metric drills helps when something needs a little clearance :P Just remember the basic ones and for the rest refer to the comparison chart don't give me that >> :huh: look :P Amen to that man! :wink: I've got the basics, it's when the 1 3/4" (for example) stuff comes up my brain has a cough, splutter & fart so I stop using my head & have to start writing: 1 25.40 + 19.05 = 44.45 Now, where's my nutfuc......I mean, shifter? :laff: Edit: Forgot to carry the 1. Edited August 20, 2011 by carbonboy Quote
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