Use different size wire in electro clutch?
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From: Eeyore on 20 Dec 2009 22:57 bg wrote: > Metric is for people that have to count on their fingers ! What an absurd comment. Do you have 12 fingers so you can count in inches to the foot ? Graham -- due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my email address
From: Eeyore on 20 Dec 2009 22:59 Ron wrote: > of course as any fool knows it should be either SWG or thousanths of an > inch ;) LOL ! Give me a thou over a 'mil' anyday. Only the Americans could confuse a metric prefix with an old unit. Not to mention that if you use the word 'mil' in the UK it means a millimetre. Graham -- due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my email address
From: Eeyore on 20 Dec 2009 23:02 John Fields wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)removethishotmail.com> wrote: > >DaveC wrote: > > >> The coil in an industrial electromagnetic clutch (connecting the flywheel to > >> the drive mechanism) has gone open-circuit. So it is being rewound by a motor > >> rewind shop. > >> > >> I was just informed that the original wire was about 12 ga. (maybe slightly > >> larger; original was metric) but it was rewound using 10 ga. > > > >Why do Americans persist in using stupid AWG that no-one else in the > >world uses except to entertain you ? > > --- > Because we like to be entertained by watching loons like you go bonkers > when we force you to step outside of your wretched little comfort zones? I didn't go bonkers at all. I just picked an easy target to stir you up. > America: "Hello, Europe, we'd like to buy 50,000 pounds of #10 AWG OFHC > double formvar magnet wire. > > Europe: But... but all we have is metric sizes, in kilograms, boo hoo. We can convert too, you know. Thankfully only an issue for you lot. > >Have you never heard of mm^2 ? > > --- > Sure we have. > > So what? Why don't you use it ? Graham -- due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my email address
From: Eeyore on 20 Dec 2009 23:04 "Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote: > That's enough arguing already! Lets compromise and use the FFF units system. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system > > -- > Paul Hovnanian paul(a)hovnanian.com I don't see cubits mentioned there. Graham due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my email address
From: Eeyore on 20 Dec 2009 23:07
Fred Abse wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > DaveC wrote: > > >> The coil in an industrial electromagnetic clutch (connecting the flywheel to > >> the drive mechanism) has gone open-circuit. So it is being rewound by a motor > >> rewind shop. > >> > >> I was just informed that the original wire was about 12 ga. (maybe slightly > >> larger; original was metric) but it was rewound using 10 ga. > > > > Why do Americans persist in using stupid AWG that no-one else in the > > world uses except to entertain you ? > > > > Have you never heard of mm^2 ? > > Metric magnet wire (enameled copper wire to you) Well, it IS used for things other than magnets. To be pedantic it's *enamelled* btw. http://wires.co.uk/acatalog/cu_enam.html > is usually specced in diameter, rather than cross sectional area. Or both. Graham -- due to the hugely increased level of spam please make the obvious adjustment to my email address |