Just starting out in G gauge

PhilP said:
..............Oh, and when did they start supplying PAR timber with rounded corners? - Bet it is a health and safety thing?? :giggle:
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You wouldn't want one of the precious little dears to get a splinter in their finger, would you - they'd just be after a compensation payout..... :mad:

Jon.
 
TLR said:
We are able to buy food by the ounce / pound / inch [ black pudding ] and drink, all depends wether we want to use imperial units or not, as the saying goes use it or lose it

Shaun
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Currently, only beer, cider, milk and precious metals can be sold solely in imperial measures. Manufacturers must use metric measurements - grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres - when selling packaged or loose goods. You can display an imperial measurement alongside the metric measurement but it must not stand out more than the metric measurement. That's the law. And remember, too, imperial measurements haven't been taught in the UK since the 1980s, it's SI units only.
 
Quote: "Oh, and when did they start supplying PAR timber with rounded corners? - Bet it is a health and safety thing??" :giggle:

CLS - Canadian Lumber Standard.

Over here, for many years, distances on road signs were in Kilometres. However, speed signs were in MPH. The switch-over was completed in a weekend when all the speed signs had the black bin liners pulled off to reveal Kilometres. Even some boreens had speed signs erected.

Its a PITA switching from Metric awareness to MPH when going to see our son with an all metric dashboard.

The only (mental) consolation is that the metric weight standard used to measure the Kilogram is British Made! Even this has to be replaced after a number of years because of escaping electrons or atoms.

So how do they know the replacement weight is up to standard?
 
Keeping the thread drift alive.... just finished watch Air Crash Investigation.
Canadian 767, first Boeing with all metric fuel gauges. Turns out that the refueller told the Capitan that he had so many kg of fuel. And fuel gauge was broke.
Refueller did his sums wrong, actual load was in pounds. Plane ran out of fuel way up there. Apparently, 767s are pretty good gliders.
So with no fuel, man at the pointy end drops it down using glider techniques from his engineless days. Nose wheel collapsed on hitting the Drag Strip (that used to be an Air Force Base).
All survived, and so did the drag racers who were still there. Two days later, they patched it up, stuck in some gas, and flew away for repairs. That plane went on for another 15-20 years service.

Sarah, nobody makes 767s in G scale, so you are safe (until someone does).
 
So with Brxit do we go imperial again :D :D
 
Zerogee said:
You wouldn't want one of the precious little dears to get a splinter in their finger, would you - they'd just be after a compensation payout..... :mad:

Jon.
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I think it's more to do with the choice of machining at the point of origin - originally the round corner stuff came from Canada, but that was in the days when there was a plastering side and a decorating side to plasterboard :devil::devil::devil::devil:

Anyhow, in answer to Jimmy's question - I sincerely hope so. Millimetres are ridiculously small, Centimetres are not an SI unit (so I don't understand them and cannot visualise them) and we still go down to the timber yard for 2.4 metres of 4" x 2" 'cos we all know what that looks like :swear::swear::swear: an' we can remember that 2.4 metres is 8ft (give or take)

As we may have mentioned before, the alternative measure in the building industry is the firkin, mostly in multiples of two. Timber is usually either two firkin short or two firkin long. At least this is an international unit of measurement :cool::cool::cool:
 
Ply is STIlL in 8 x 4 foot sheets - but plasterboard is metric - so build for one and the other wont fit.
It only seems the 'sheds' that have started describing timber by the finished size. The timber yards still call it by its original cut from size - but in metric.
 
And what about thread sizes.

For example 3/8" BSP, I'll be long deceased before that changes if ever. Nor 7/16" JIC. Yes there are metric threads but the military is still strongly imperial.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Keeping the thread drift alive.... just finished watch Air Crash Investigation.
Canadian 767, first Boeing with all metric fuel gauges. Turns out that the refueller told the Capitan that he had so many kg of fuel. And fuel gauge was broke.
Refueller did his sums wrong, actual load was in pounds. Plane ran out of fuel way up there. Apparently, 767s are pretty good gliders.
So with no fuel, man at the pointy end drops it down using glider techniques from his engineless days. Nose wheel collapsed on hitting the Drag Strip (that used to be an Air Force Base).
All survived, and so did the drag racers who were still there. Two days later, they patched it up, stuck in some gas, and flew away for repairs. That plane went on for another 15-20 years service.

Sarah, nobody makes 767s in G scale, so you are safe (until someone does).
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We call it the 'Gimli Glider'..................

tac
 
Right, not really a thread drift, but while we are discussing metrics, I'd like to offer a couple of sets of tables that I produced a while back for use by modellers in the common LARGE scales.

They are -

1. Combined 1/20.3 - 1/22.5 - 1/24th - 1/29th scales to FEET.

2. 16mm to the foot to metric.

If anybody is interested, please email me and I'll send them by return.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Port Orford coast RR - Eastern sub.
 
Sarah Winfield said:
And what about thread sizes.

For example 3/8" BSP, I'll be long deceased before that changes if ever. Nor 7/16" JIC. Yes there are metric threads but the military is still strongly imperial.
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That's odd. I was military for thirty-years, all of it metric, except for flying heights/speeds and British-made long-lensed photo-recce film-based cameras.

tac
 
tac foley said:
That's odd. I was military for thirty-years, all of it metric, except for flying heights/speeds and British-made long-lensed photo-recce film-based cameras.

tac
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Ammunition?
Were you issued with '303' or '762'? - I am assuming you were in the Mob long enough ago to use real bullets, not the small-calibre stuff they use now?

Now, if someone can post a picture of a rail-mounted gun, we can read the first ten threads, and get back to starting a 'G gauge' layout.. ;):rofl::rofl:
 
Canada went ll metric in three months; the UK has taken what so far, 40 plus years and still hasn't got there.

Metric as people call it is the Standard International Unit, so if the UK is going to sell abroad, it has to use it. And, yes, the millimetre is a stupid base unit, it should have been the centimetre.
 
PhilP said:
Ammunition? Were you issued with '303' or '762'? - I am assuming you were in the Mob long enough ago to use real bullets, not the small-calibre stuff they use now?
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You, Sir, are treading on dangerous ground. Have a care.

tac
 
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