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| SwarfnStuff:
So should I mention the disparity we have with liquid / volumetric measures? Like, one Imperial gallon being about 4.5 Litre, the US Gallon being about 4.2 Litre. Not to mention tuns, barrels. pints n stuff. OH bother this is too taxing for my poor 72 solar orbit brain. :hammer: I'm gunna make swarf of indeterminate size and quantity then see what's left. :Doh: :doh: John B |
| mklotz:
--- Quote from: Anzaniste on November 29, 2013, 09:23:55 PM ---It's much easier to divide by eye something into half and thus a quater, an eighth, sixteenth etc than it is to divide things by tents. --- End quote --- If powers of two are so fascinating why aren't micrometers calibrated in units of 1/1024 of an inch? |
| DavidA:
ieezitin. It’s funny how a timing belt snaps at 100,000 miles on a VW Diesel engine. Yes, hilarious. Thing is, a quick search brings up the replacement periond for VW Diesel timing belts as 100,000 miles or four years. How old is yours ? Dave. |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: philf on November 30, 2013, 04:52:24 AM ---Just to add my tuppence worth...... (I'm sure someone, somewhere will have a lathe or mill with fractional divisions to contradict me!) :beer: Phil. --- End quote --- But 'Two Pence' worth was 1/6th of a shilling and a shilling was a 1/20th of a pound which was 16 ounces :bang: which was a 1/14th of a stone. All this was before the pound was used to keep sick animals- I think :lol: :scratch: Those were the ones which couldn't fly which needed rods, poles and sometimes perches which lastly swam about. Apologies to Matt Tinker and Elgar for the Enigma Variations Norm- who has to be three standard deviations from anywhere. |
| ieezitin:
Dave... my one is a 2007 Jetta.... its been pure murder of an experience owning it. I got it two years ago when it had 86,000 on it, its very clean and ran like a champ, my main reason for getting it was it gets 50miles a gallon. I took it back around 97,000 miles to get the oil done and have a little check up and then that's when they informed me the belt needs changing for a cost of $1200, the dealership did it and left out 3 engine mounts, so it was no surprise when the engine lurched out of the brackets and twisted forward and smashed the radiator hoses and other stuff. After that shower of 5hite episode and breaking balls with VW i had a problem with the LED dash cluster, when the sun hits it and raises the temperature its fails and just goes blank, low and behold when i went to now a different dealership and explained what was happening he immediately roared out " Aha!!!!!! they normally go around 100,000 miles or so" " but for a fee of $1200 we can throw a new one in" naturally i said *****lks. I have calculated to the penny via a spreadsheet the savings i make on fuel charges being that its a diesel i give straight back in parts that are designed to fail. Its a shame because i drive 95 miles per day 6 days a week so the fuel consumption was a major factor in buying it, coupled with that being an ex-pat living in the USA and having driven VW cars all my life while i was at home i knew that VW is a fantastic product, changed my mind now though, There not even built in Wolfberg anymore, at least the ones in the US are not, they all come from mexico. Now the boot gets a bit funny when trying to close it.... a little bit like the wife really..... sorry for the rant........... didnt mean to take over the post... Anthony. |
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