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Willem.
I drive a Ford F 150 Heritage 2004, in The Netherlands and half of the bolts and nuts are Mertic, the other half Imperial, I don't care, got my tools to do either.
Willem.
Then, there was the Gimli Glider... A happy ending at least.
"Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 to an emergency landing that resulted in no serious injuries to passengers or persons on the ground, at a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, that had been converted to a motor racing track.[1][2][3][4][5] This unusual aviation incident earned the aircraft the nickname "Gimli Glider".[6] The accident is commonly blamed on mistaking pounds for kilograms, which resulted in the aircraft carrying only 45% of its required fuel load.[6][7] However, the units error was the last in a series of failures that aligned in a Swiss cheese model to cause the accident.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Wasn't the Austin 7 the first car with "ABC" (accelerator, brake, clutch) peddles combined with floor gear leaver?
I have to deal with 200 year old stuff, tapers held in by pins (when you expect a thread...) and some threads don't match anything. You'll never round off a square head - every nut should be square with a whitworth thread, a quarter turn on an age old part, and you can do the rest by hand.
I have to deal with 200 year old stuff, tapers held in by pins (when you expect a thread...) and some threads don't match anything. You'll never round off a square head - every nut should be square with a whitworth thread, a quarter turn on an age old part, and you can do the rest by hand.
I've rounded off square heads... It all comes down to how tight the fit of the tool is and how tight the fastener is. A MAPP gas torch helps.
Canadians seem to have a knack for turning jetliners into gliders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
No metric / imperial mixup involved, just not identifying a fuel leak and actually taking action to pump extra fuel down the leaking line. The captain received a hero's welcome nontheless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
No metric / imperial mixup involved, just not identifying a fuel leak and actually taking action to pump extra fuel down the leaking line. The captain received a hero's welcome nontheless.
Hey, that's two flights full of people who didn't crash and die because the pilots both had glider experience. That's a win to me. WTF with the fuel leak though? Improper maintenance indeed! And you know with all the money they spend on all the controls and gauges, they don't fit a fuel gauge. If I was losing fuel, I'd notice my mileage climb and the gauge drop - the computer would think the car used ¼ tank in 20 kilometres and think I was getting 100L/100km.
What's really crazy is the US Virgin Islands which is a US territory that drives on the left side of the road. The cars that they rent are all left side drive and they often neglect to tell the customers which side of the road to drive on.
I owned several mustangs that were a mix of metric and imperial, and used to work on them a lot. I solved the problem by buying an all metric car and taking it to a mechanic.. LOL My last CJ-7 was all imperial and that was the last vehicle I ever worked on. (Sold on in 2003)
I remember going to the Bahamas where all the vehicles were American made left hand drive driven on the wrong 😉 side of the road. I remember my dad driving his left hand drive car in the UK, that wasn't great. (Everyone knew we were foreigners, and expected the worst. British drivers in those days were the most polite motorists I can remember anywhere.)
I remember going to the Bahamas where all the vehicles were American made left hand drive driven on the wrong 😉 side of the road. I remember my dad driving his left hand drive car in the UK, that wasn't great. (Everyone knew we were foreigners, and expected the worst. British drivers in those days were the most polite motorists I can remember anywhere.)
In sweden we actually changed driving side from left to right in 1967. In spite of driving in the left side most cars
had left side wheel, which actually was strange. We had a huge ad campaign at the "shift day" and in spite of
forecast very few accidents occurred.
had left side wheel, which actually was strange. We had a huge ad campaign at the "shift day" and in spite of
forecast very few accidents occurred.
Yeah... Gotta love the Murican system. Let's just assign random numbers to stuff. Take drill bits as an example. Any metric machine shop will have one set of drills. One! It typically covers 1-13 mm in 0.1 mm increments. The number on the drill bit is the diameter. If it says 2.2 (or 2,2) on the bit, it's a 2.2 mm drill bit. What a concept!
Contrast with a Murican machine shop that typically has three sets of drill bits to cover the same range: Fractional drills that are marked, say, 1/16 for 1/16th of an inch diameter. OK. That actually makes sense. Granted, fractions are not the most intuitive to work with, but at least the number of the drill corresponds to the diameter of the drill. The next set is numbered/gauge drills. Similar to Murican wire gauge, number drills get smaller as the number on the drill gets larger, but that aside there doesn't seem to be any sort of logical connection between the number on the drill and its size. It's probably based on some natural logarithm or something. And then there's letter drills. These are drill bits of about the same size that are marked A-Z. I guess they ran out of numbers?
To keep all this straight any Murican machine shop I've ever been to has had lookup tables posted on the walls that sorted the drill bits by size and indicated which drill to use if you needed to pre-drill for a tapped hole or create a slip fit for a screw. In a metric machine shop you can just subtract the thread pitch from the nominal diameter of the screw to get the drill size for a threaded hole.
Most everything I do is metric. I can type the numbers directly into a calculator and make fewer mistakes. My PCBs are still in inches, but I use decimals rather than fractions.
Tom
You just need the right drivers, a red & a yellow cover the most but a just right flat blade across the diagonal can mostly work
dave
I had a 75 900, a bad year for the manual transmission, but otherwise I loved the car
dave
Let us settle on the nomenclature.
Square head:
Square drive:
I've stripped both.
Square head:
Square drive:
I've stripped both.
