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gallons?
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One gallon is 3.785 litres.
One litre is 0.264 gallon
One litre is 0.264 gallon
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One should remeber that United Kingdom has a diff measurement for gallons than americans
Best conversion site to use would be IMO
http://www.onlineconversion.com
Converst anythng... including shoe sizes! LOL
Best conversion site to use would be IMO
http://www.onlineconversion.com
Converst anythng... including shoe sizes! LOL
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Metric vs. English Sytem of Measurement
Please pardon my ranting, but when I was in grammar school, circa 1812, we were taught the metric system because the US was "supposed" to switch systems. Well, my friends, it's 2003 and we are still saddled with an antiquated system of weights and measures that even the seminal English abandoned years ago!
Wouldn't it be much easier if the US conformed to world standard?
Thank you so tolerant souls.
Randall Kohn
Please pardon my ranting, but when I was in grammar school, circa 1812, we were taught the metric system because the US was "supposed" to switch systems. Well, my friends, it's 2003 and we are still saddled with an antiquated system of weights and measures that even the seminal English abandoned years ago!
Wouldn't it be much easier if the US conformed to world standard?
Thank you so tolerant souls.
Randall Kohn
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conversion tool
Hi,
you can also go there:
http://www.aquaquebec.net/outils/
txs to la belle province.
regards
Hi,
you can also go there:
http://www.aquaquebec.net/outils/
txs to la belle province.
regards
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Randall,
You and me both wish that would happen, in 1976 when I was 10th grade they said in 2 years we would be switching over. How I wish that would have happened. We are now and have been sloooooooooooooowly switching over, so slow that it is very costly to us. On the farm we have to stock bolts and nuts in SAE and in metric, have wrenches in both. Weights for seed containers are in both, chemicals and fertiilzers in both units. Much of the equipment I have are both metric and SAE. Some cars and pickups are metric on the body and frame, then SAE on the engine. So we are working on equipment with both sets of tools. What a mess. :roll: :roll:
You and me both wish that would happen, in 1976 when I was 10th grade they said in 2 years we would be switching over. How I wish that would have happened. We are now and have been sloooooooooooooowly switching over, so slow that it is very costly to us. On the farm we have to stock bolts and nuts in SAE and in metric, have wrenches in both. Weights for seed containers are in both, chemicals and fertiilzers in both units. Much of the equipment I have are both metric and SAE. Some cars and pickups are metric on the body and frame, then SAE on the engine. So we are working on equipment with both sets of tools. What a mess. :roll: :roll:
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hehe, canada switched, then got half way through and stopped. i buy pipe in feet, then the wiire i pull in, i buy in metres. some blue prints are in metric, and others are in feet. i can work in both pretty easily, but the younger kids have a really hard time in feet and inches, since they never learned the british system in school.
metric is a lot easier when you get the hang of it. and yes, it would be easier to just get it over with and change it all.
we all talk about gallons. in fact i never worked in u.s. gallons till i got into fish. canada uses imperial gallons.
the one thing you guys in the states HAVE to get into, is robertson screws. (square head screws.) they are the best, but i believe that the original robertson wouldn't give up the patent. phillips and flat head are pretty crappy in comparison. torx is not worth the effort, imo.
rick
metric is a lot easier when you get the hang of it. and yes, it would be easier to just get it over with and change it all.
we all talk about gallons. in fact i never worked in u.s. gallons till i got into fish. canada uses imperial gallons.
the one thing you guys in the states HAVE to get into, is robertson screws. (square head screws.) they are the best, but i believe that the original robertson wouldn't give up the patent. phillips and flat head are pretty crappy in comparison. torx is not worth the effort, imo.
rick
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We've been into square head for quite a while, they are the best, you're right. I use mostly #2, but some #3.
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We have switched!!!! In teh medical profession and on highways withing 30 miles of the Mexican border.Metric is still taught and used in the schools. All my students use it.
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In Aus I thought we all used the metric system, that was. untill I started working at the shop. Now when people come in and tell me that their tank is so many meters long, I'm like "...and that's how many feet?" Personally, I thing the old measurement is better, and I've only been using since I finished high school. It's more easy to visualise if you ask me.
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