OT: Why the US will never go metric....

[StickThatInYourPipeAndSmo]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:10:45 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC), Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the like.

It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.

Bulk beer here comes in kegs and, for quiet get-togethers, half-kegs.

A keg is 15 gallons. Or maybe 10.

John

Idiot. In the US they are called barrels. There are quarter barrels,
half barrels and barrels.

A 'keg' is an advertising term. Nothing more. No breweries work in
kegs. You brain is 15 milligrams... Or maybe 10. Either way, it has
fermented into rancid vinegar.

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Jun 14, 8:23 am, Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry

pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish.  Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches.  What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?

  Sorry, but a 'rough cut' 2x4 DOES measure 2 inches by 4 inches.

  If yours didn't your mill house was off.

Mine (just measured) are 1.5 x 3.5 smooth and 1.75 x 3.75 rough.
Perhaps there is a "rougher" grade?

No, AlwaysWrong is wrong, again. It's amazing that he can't get *anything*
right.

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:21 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomerado@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 10:41 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
As I recall, it's a 50x100, even though theirs are also smaller...


What are the dimensions of a full-size plywood panel?

"Richard Henry" <pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish.  Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches.  What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?
4 feet by 8 feet.

Falls into place with other industries, like roofing and siding.

Roffing "squares".

"Roffing" squares? ROTFL!

DimBulb, what a flaming hypocrite!

Easy for any grunt to carry two on their back too.

Much wider, and only tall folks can frame houses.

Standard US room size is an eight foot ceiling.

Nine foot ceilings are also quite normal, AlwaysWrong (no DimBulb, not you,
the ceilings). ...standard enough that sheetrock comes in 54" widths.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:31:56 -0500, "krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
<krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Jun 14, 8:23 am, Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry

pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish.  Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches.  What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?

  Sorry, but a 'rough cut' 2x4 DOES measure 2 inches by 4 inches.

  If yours didn't your mill house was off.

Mine (just measured) are 1.5 x 3.5 smooth and 1.75 x 3.75 rough.
Perhaps there is a "rougher" grade?

No, AlwaysWrong is wrong, again. It's amazing that he can't get *anything*
right.

According to Tim Watts, I am right on the money, and a third mode is
available and being used. You fucking retarded twit.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:39:03 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wibbled:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:09:41 -0700, John Larkin

Torque is not force. The units are different.

John


Torsion is a specifically applied rotational movement across an axis
due to the application of a specific type of force known as torque.

Torque is the quantification, and measure of that movement of that
force and utilizes two factors to determine and declare quantification
of it. One is the applied FORCE unit and value, which coincides with
weight or mass measure, and the other is the distance from the
centerline (perpendicular to) of the item you are applying the torque
to.

Go back to school.

Force is usually measured in pounds or newtons, torque in foot-pounds (or
is that pounds-feet) or newton-metres.

In what way are they the same?



--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:20:52 -0700, Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com>
wibbled:

In my first few years in college, when I was a physics major, I laughed
at my mechanical engineering roommate's struggles with poundals and
slugs.

Don't remind me... I made a moderately big-assed[1] electromagnet in
school metalwork yonks ago (well, I bent 1.5" steel bar into a U - did
the 10,000 turns of 1A (don't ask me to remember what the SWA guage was!)
enamelled wire at home.

[1] OK - it wasn't a scrap yard magnet, but it would hold >100lbs and
lift cast iron manhole covers out of the ground.


I had to do all the calculations using my father's ancient (British)
engineering textbook to decide how many amp-turns were needed to saturate
1.5" of mild steel, then double it to compensate for air gaps.

All in bloody dyns, ergs and feck knows what. Bearing in mind I'm
English, so I was being taught SI and nothing else at school.

OTOH, try to serve me beer in anything other than a pint measure or get
me to make a cake in gram and ml units and I'm less than pleased! I rue
the day we were made to buy petrol by the litre - my 3 year old german
built car still has it's consumption gauge in Miles per Gallon and I like
it

SI rules for science, imperial rules for everyday living. Except
carpentry - I hate fractions!

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
<Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the like.

It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.



--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:08 -0700, Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com>
wibbled:

On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in our
mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish. Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches. What are the
metric dimensions for the equivalent products?

Funny you should ask... I am fixing a 1950's house. Most of the
structural wood is true 3x3", 4x2" or 8x2" with a bit of 6x3".

I had to match some of this for repair purposes. Our wood is still
supplied in roughsawn as the imperial nominal - eg 2x4". But, getting
untreated roughsawn is hard these days - most of it is now PAR (planed
all round) or CLS regularised.

The 4x2" PAR is made from 4x2" stock but is actually (usually) 47x95mm.
This worked for one bit of wood due to 1/4" variations in the original
timber, but for another bit I had to have some thicknessed down at the
wood yard where they basically planed 3/4" off some 5" nominal PAR wood.
Glad I don't need much of that!

In fact the woodyards are still happy to sell me some "4x2" PAR because
it's easier to say that than "47x95".

For outside treated rough timber, the inch measurement is pretty much
spot on and builders will still use those terms.

And we order skips and bulk materials by the yard (meaning cubic yard).


--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
<pomerado@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 4:36 pm, "k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:21 -0700, Archimedes' Lever



OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 10:41 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
As I recall, it's a 50x100, even though theirs are also smaller...

What are the dimensions of a full-size plywood panel?

"Richard Henry" <pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:cf950c18-e846-4159-906f-3713e26fa14b@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish. Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches. What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?
4 feet by 8 feet.

 Falls into place with other industries, like roofing and siding.

 Roffing "squares".

"Roffing" squares?  ROTFL!  

DimBulb, what a flaming hypocrite!

 Easy for any grunt to carry two on their back too.

 Much wider, and only tall folks can frame houses.

 Standard US room size is an eight foot ceiling.

Nine foot ceilings are also quite normal, AlwaysWrong (no DimBulb, not you,
the ceilings).   ...standard enough that sheetrock comes in 54" widths.

Still have my ruler here on the table - This room is 8 feet, the
kitchen over my shoulder is 7.5, the laundry room next is 7.

Standard enough that lumber is stocked in 8 foot cut lengths, but NOT
nine foot. Ten footers have to be bought, and then one gets scrap.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:17:41 -0700, VWWall <vwall@large.invalid> wibbled:

Tim Watts wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the
like.

It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.

And the answer to: "Are you getting any lately?" has always been given
in furlongs per fortnight!

Incidentally, that brings up a question:

When you americans talk of "a butt load of <blah>" - does that derive
from the "butt" as in 144 gallons? I always mentally associated it with
butt=ass - but the former makes more sense...



--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[VWWall]

John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC), Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the like.
It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.

Bulk beer here comes in kegs and, for quiet get-togethers, half-kegs.

A keg is 15 gallons. Or maybe 10.

See: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/keg/keg.html

--
Virg Wall

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:57:06 -0700, VWWall <vwall@large.invalid>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC), Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the like.
It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.

Bulk beer here comes in kegs and, for quiet get-togethers, half-kegs.

A keg is 15 gallons. Or maybe 10.


See: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/keg/keg.html

We once did a bar-top taste test of Michelob vs Bud. Nobody could tell
the difference. All these A-B rice beers give me a headache.

John

 

[Richard Henry]

On Jun 14, 4:36 pm, "k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
<k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:21 -0700, Archimedes' Lever



OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 10:41 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
As I recall, it's a 50x100, even though theirs are also smaller...

What are the dimensions of a full-size plywood panel?

"Richard Henry" <pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:cf950c18-e846-4159-906f-3713e26fa14b@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com....
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish. Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches. What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?
4 feet by 8 feet.

 Falls into place with other industries, like roofing and siding.

 Roffing "squares".

"Roffing" squares?  ROTFL!  

DimBulb, what a flaming hypocrite!

 Easy for any grunt to carry two on their back too.

 Much wider, and only tall folks can frame houses.

 Standard US room size is an eight foot ceiling.

Nine foot ceilings are also quite normal, AlwaysWrong (no DimBulb, not you,
the ceilings).   ...standard enough that sheetrock comes in 54" widths.

Still have my ruler here on the table - This room is 8 feet, the
kitchen over my shoulder is 7.5, the laundry room next is 7.

 

[Tim Watts]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:35 -0700, Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com>
wibbled:

Mine (just measured) are 1.5 x 3.5 smooth and 1.75 x 3.75 rough. Perhaps
there is a "rougher" grade?

Two mediaeval peasants and a sawpit?


--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:41:34 -0700 (PDT), George Herold
<gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 3:56 pm, John Larkin
jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:09:23 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry





pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 13, 8:48 pm, John Larkin
jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:28:52 -0700, Winston <Wins...@bigbrother.net
wrote:

On 6/13/2010 1:45 PM, k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:33:13 -0700, Winston<Wins...@bigbrother.net>  wrote:

(...)

It saddens me to think of all the bright technical minds in
'imperial measurment' countries that got turned off to applied
physics because of our insistence on awkward, self-
destructive measurement systems.

Complete nonsense.  Because you can't figure this stuff out, and aren't bright
enough to find a calculator that can, doesn't mean the average college kid
can't.

By the time the young person reaches college age the battle
has long been lost.  Let's agree to disagree that it is
a shame we refuse to supply a logical set of measurement tools
as a basis for learning.

Beijing must be very happy about this.

--Winston<--Slugs? Poundals? Foot-pounds?  You're joking, right?

I don't remember ever using slugs or poundals, except as curiosity.  Seems
you're the dense one here.

I am *far* from the sharpest knife in the drawer, that is true.

However, it is not a good defense to insist "we always did it
that way".

There's nothing wrong with marking roads in miles (UK) or drinking
beer by the pint (Ireland) or measuring the distance to a first down
in yards. All real physics and electronics math is done in SI units in

Give or take an interplanetary probe or two.

It is shocking that anyone in the aerospace business would still be
using pounds-force, or pounds-anything, any more. I think mechanical
engineers and architects are still behind the curve on this.

The only thing we use pounds for is UPS shipments.

Don't the Brits still use stones? Gold is still traded in troy ounces,
I think, and diamonds come in carats.

John- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I need my torque wrench to measure foot pounds when I crank the nuts
on the head of my tractor. "nuts, crank, head. snert... 'south part
snigger'

George H.

Does this mean that we get to 'kill Kenny'?

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:42:15 -0700 (PDT), George Herold
<gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 4:21 pm, Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:32:45 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit...@gmail.com
wrote:

and torque is
not exactly force.

  Read what I said Torque is a specifically applied force.
  It IS exactly a force.  An applied force.  Just look at the units with
which it needs to be quantisized with.  duh.

What?

Ounce-inch

One ounce of FORCE applied to a lever one inch from the center axis of
the device one is applying the torque to.

foot-pound

One pound of FORCE applied against a one foot long lever attached to
the center axis of the device one is applying the torque to.

It is a measure of 'torsional force', or a force applied in such a
manner that the point to which it is applied rotates around an axis.

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:04:39 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:57:06 -0700, VWWall <vwall@large.invalid
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:21 +0000 (UTC), Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:31:13 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
Zarathustra@thusspoke.org> wibbled:

At least we are not measuring things by 'curling stones' or the like.
It is still possible AFAIK here to go to a small time brewery and buy a
firkin (8 gallons) of beer. Or a barrel (4 firkins). If you're areal
pissartist, you'd probably want a hogshead, butt or tun though.

Bulk beer here comes in kegs and, for quiet get-togethers, half-kegs.

A keg is 15 gallons. Or maybe 10.


See: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/keg/keg.html

We once did a bar-top taste test of Michelob vs Bud. Nobody could tell
the difference. All these A-B rice beers give me a headache.

Bud is a rice beer. Michelob is not. I can, or at least could, tell the
difference, easily.

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:37:13 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:31:56 -0500, "krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com
wrote:

On Jun 14, 8:23 am, Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:41:08 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry

pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish.  Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches.  What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?

  Sorry, but a 'rough cut' 2x4 DOES measure 2 inches by 4 inches.

  If yours didn't your mill house was off.

Mine (just measured) are 1.5 x 3.5 smooth and 1.75 x 3.75 rough.
Perhaps there is a "rougher" grade?

No, AlwaysWrong is wrong, again. It's amazing that he can't get *anything*
right.

According to Tim Watts, I am right on the money, and a third mode is
available and being used. You fucking retarded twit.

A 2x4 you find in a lumber yard was *never* 2" x 4". They're not about to
waste 35% of the tree for shavings. You'll never get anything right,
AlwaysWrong.

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Jun 14, 4:36 pm, "k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:21 -0700, Archimedes' Lever



OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 10:41 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
As I recall, it's a 50x100, even though theirs are also smaller...

What are the dimensions of a full-size plywood panel?

"Richard Henry" <pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:cf950c18-e846-4159-906f-3713e26fa14b@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish. Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches. What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?
4 feet by 8 feet.

 Falls into place with other industries, like roofing and siding.

 Roffing "squares".

"Roffing" squares?  ROTFL!  

DimBulb, what a flaming hypocrite!

 Easy for any grunt to carry two on their back too.

 Much wider, and only tall folks can frame houses.

 Standard US room size is an eight foot ceiling.

Nine foot ceilings are also quite normal, AlwaysWrong (no DimBulb, not you,
the ceilings).   ...standard enough that sheetrock comes in 54" widths.

Still have my ruler here on the table - This room is 8 feet, the

Less than 8' is not standard and against code in many areas of the country. 8'
and 9' ceilings, OTOH, are quite standard and meet code everywhere in the US.

kitchen over my shoulder is 7.5, the laundry room next is 7.

My Vermont house, other than the living and family rooms (cathedral ceilings)
had 7' 2" ceilings; definitely not standard.

This first floor of this house has 9' ceilings and the two bedrooms upstairs
8', with the great room 18', and higher. ;-)

 

[krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:16:53 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomerado@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 4:36 pm, "k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:21 -0700, Archimedes' Lever



OneBigLe...@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 14, 10:41 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@charter.net> wrote:
As I recall, it's a 50x100, even though theirs are also smaller...

What are the dimensions of a full-size plywood panel?

"Richard Henry" <pomer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

A question for woodworkeres/carpenters in purely metric countries:

In the USA, a "two-by-four" is the most common type of construction
wood, and can be purchased in two different dimensions, depending on
degree of finish. Neither measures exactly 2 by 4 inches. What are
the metric dimensions for the equivalent products?
4 feet by 8 feet.

 Falls into place with other industries, like roofing and siding.

 Roffing "squares".

"Roffing" squares?  ROTFL!  

DimBulb, what a flaming hypocrite!

 Easy for any grunt to carry two on their back too.

 Much wider, and only tall folks can frame houses.

 Standard US room size is an eight foot ceiling.

Nine foot ceilings are also quite normal, AlwaysWrong (no DimBulb, not you,
the ceilings).   ...standard enough that sheetrock comes in 54" widths.

Still have my ruler here on the table - This room is 8 feet, the
kitchen over my shoulder is 7.5, the laundry room next is 7.


Standard enough that lumber is stocked in 8 foot cut lengths, but NOT
nine foot. Ten footers have to be bought, and then one gets scrap.

So tell me, AlwaysWrong, why does sheetrock come in 54" wide sheets? Do you
get your 8' lumber free? What a dummie.