I wish we still used the old UK round pin plugs. Much less painful than the current 13 amp plugs! https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/88...6900&msclkid=2970c9f92d26170787baaa9759dc910e
We do now, we didn't use to. And see post #226.
(It may be apparent I have just found this thread, which explains my consecutive posts.)
I think you'll find the UK islands are on the European continent...
From the Wikipedia article on the UK:
"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[k][15] is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland.[16]"
I think you don't understand the English!
BTW, my grandson gave me a book token, so I bought this. 😆
Exactly, but he said "the English" so I assume that means English people, not language. I'm North American but would never refer to my self as American.
etymology
Million = 1E6
Billion = bi-million = 1E12.
Trillion = tri-million = 1E18.
But now we all follow the US definitions.
Million = 1E6
Billion = bi-million = 1E12.
Trillion = tri-million = 1E18.
But now we all follow the US definitions.
Younger I met a USA 5.77 feets tall girl... not all is bad there ! We can agree on food but they progress, learn to make cheese and try to avoid fat and sugar...but halas not in industry food yet.
too bad for us, we could find cheap screws and bolts for the MG cars before you filled up the channel with water again! Btw MG now are chineese and electric, I miss the cabs ! Had a MG midget 🙂 ! I always thought you have the speed pedal of the wrong side cause Nelson lost his rigth leg !
Sometimes I just eat popcorn at watching some threads... If I have only to eat frencch saucisses, I would had winn few kilos since ! But I avoid ketchup with the popcorn !
So had I!
It ran off the road and up a tree.
I blame the nut behind the steering wheel! 😀
When Harry met Mamy ! So conservative... btw as a french I loved his first book that begins in Dordogne in a car with his french girlfriend ! Very cliché !
joke a side I have to take a picture of my screw from my american loudspeaker, cause I think you must live outside Europe to understand where to buy some !
I don't really care, I can machine or work with either and the occasional odd ball thread pitches too. But I do draw the line at metric screws with imperial heads and imperial screws with metric heads.... GM was famous for that, as well as propitiatory sized hex head fasteners. Someone too lazy to change out a socket on an assembly line!
At the moment I am working on some British bits and bobs all BA Whitworth... thankfully I kept all my Whitworth tools and have access to a roll around with nothing but Whitworth wrenches.
We humans love standards..... that is I suppose why we have so many conflicting systems.
We humans love standards..... that is I suppose why we have so many conflicting systems.
My electric toothbrush is in conflict with the Euro adapter I bought for it. Exactly what is this two pronged Braun plug?
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I think there was more to it than laziness. I rebuilt a GM turbo 3.8L V6 engine from 1980 sometime in the late 80's. The intake manifold bolts all had the usual 9/16 SAE bolt heads, except for one. It was Torx back when large Torx bolts only came in sizes divisible by 5. The 40 was too small and trying to use it risked rounding out the hole in the bolt, the bit, or both. A 45 would not go into the hole. Sears (Craftsman) had nothing, but the GM dealer could order the "proper tool" for something like $20. What does the Tubelab guy do? He busts out the angle grinder, makes the entire head on the bolt disappear, lifts off the manifold, then removes the remaining stud with a pair of Vice Grips. A normal SAE 9/16 bolt went into that hole when the engine went back together.