can somebody please f!@#$% help me!!

[Termite]

Peter,

I think it should be spelt waiting if you are talking about dining and French Cuisine.

Ever come across a French waiter? Then you will learn all about waiting, and arrogance, and rudeness. :mad:

[silentC]

I understand that only the most patient and polite of Frenchmen get to be waiters....

[bitingmidge]

What about a Bachelor of English Spelling?

Are you still jet lagged, BM?

Bugger! Yep...er no....prop-jet lagged this time (but the headcold is what did it....)

P

[Wood Borer]

I understand that only the most patient and polite of Frenchmen get to be waiters....

Waders if they are sourcing frog legs

[Iain]

I understand that only the most patient and polite of Frenchmen get to be waiters....

Someone better explain to Mr C what an oxymoron is

[Wood Borer]

So people don't think this thread has been hijacked, the metric system started in France and the metric unit of pressure was named after him.

"Genius with a Heart of Faith; French Scientist Blaise Pascal Finds God and the Answer to Life's Deepest Mystery"

Did he find a way of convincing SWMBO to buy him more tools?

http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Gl...glmps002.shtml

[zenwood]

Speaking of hijacking, Pascale made this point, which is interesting in relation to modern terrorism:

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

[AlexS]

Think metric...it's a dozen times easier.

[Gingermick]

So what is the conversion factor from Imperial degrees to Metric degrees???

It's all a matter of degrees.

32 PSI = 220.6324026 kPa.

Are you sure its not 220.63240264 kpa

Think metric...it's a dozen times easier.

Not the same as making it 1/12 as difficult.

[joseph84]

I double checked my tyre inflater today and yes im correct! On the measuring stick (if thats what you call it), one side has KG and the other POUNDS. Im just as confused as everyone else. I thought KGS was a measure of weight??

...and stop hijacking my thread!!

[vsquizz]

A pound in pressure talk is actually pounds per square inch

Kilograms in pressure talk is actually kilograms per square centimetre.

1 kgf/cm2 = 14.2233 PSI (=lbf/in²)

I recommend you download this gizmo, it takes up bugger all space and is as handy as....as.....a spellchecker that works:confused: .

http://katmarsoftware.com/uconeer.htm

Don't leave home without it.

Cheer

[JDarvall]

I double checked my tyre inflater today and yes im correct! On the measuring stick (if thats what you call it), one side has KG and the other POUNDS. Im just as confused as everyone else. I thought KGS was a measure of weight??

...and stop hijacking my thread!!

So, Joesph.....when you line up by eye, on that measuring stick, what does 32 Psi equate to

if 1 kg = approx 14 psi.

1/14 = ?/32 ....... ? = 32/14 = about 2.3 kgs....

2.3 kgs ???? Does the measuring stick give you about that ?

Just curious how correct the conversion is.

[zenwood]

This is just a guess, so don't take it as gospel. I imagine the "Pounds" is an abbreviation for "pounds per square inch" and "KG" is an abbreviation for "kg per square metre". These are the standard imperial and metric units of pressure. You are right that literal pounds and kg are units of weight, not pressure, which should alway be expressed as "force per unit area".

Actually pounds and kg are not units of force, but are themselves shorthand for the force of a 1 pound (or 1 kg) mass acting under gravity. The force of 1 kg acting under gravity (9.8 m/s^2) is 9.8 Newtons, and the pressure of 1 Newton per square metre is called 1 Pascal: 1 kg/m^2 = 9.8 N/m^2 = 9.8 Pa.

Upshot: I suspect all of this is a non issue: the "pounds" scale on the pressure guage would be measuring imperial pressure, and the "KG" scale would be measuring metric pressure, kg (or Newtons) per square metre, or Pascals. Presumably you read off the required pressure from the side of the tyre (or wherever) and add air until the guage measures that amount (in the same units).

Clear?

[Wood Borer]

Actually pounds and kg are not units of force, but are themselves shorthand for the force of a 1 pound (or 1 kg) mass acting under gravity. The force of 1 kg acting under gravity (9.8 m/s^2) is called 1 Newton, and the pressure of 1 Newton per square metre is called 1 Pascal: 1 kg/m^2 = 9.8 N/m^2 = 1 Pa.

1Kg exerts a force of 9.8N in the earth's gravitational field at the earth's surface.

[zenwood]

1Kg exerts a force of 9.8N in the earth's gravitational field at the earth's surface.

You're right: post corrected.