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From: R. Mark Clayton on 10 Nov 2009 14:21 "Neil Harrington" <secret(a)illumnati.net> wrote in message news:qOKdnbg9Q7TZDmTXnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> wrote in message > news:5qCdnZYI57wUg2TXnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> >> "Neil Harrington" <not(a)home.today> wrote in message >> news:FJKdnbcsb5IrbWXXnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> >>> "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message >>> news:w5GdnQbD2PUH_mXXnZ2dnUVZ8m2dnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>>> >>>> "Larry Thong" <larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in message >>>> news:yPSdndov5ssc12rXnZ2dnUVZ_rZi4p2d(a)supernews.com... >>>> >>>> Of course the tripod mount thread is 1/4" Whitworth. >>> >>> Really?! I always just assumed that was SAE too. >>> >> I think he's kidding.....Mine's 1/4-20 SAE. > > That's what I thought. But I don't think he's kidding. > > As far as I know, Whitworth sizes were only used on British products. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitworth_thread "Within the United States, the Whitworth thread that most people encounter is the quarter-inch thread on the bottom of most cameras for mounting on a tripod." Touch�! Even though the Yanks left the Empire they still won't join the rest of the world.
From: (PeteCresswell) on 10 Nov 2009 17:48 Per Neil Harrington: >However, despite all the bad publicity given the Pinto, apart from those two >final-assembly problems mine was a good car and never gave me any further >trouble. I owned it about five years, took it on trips to Canada and to >Florida, never had another complaint with it. Was Pinto the one where the occupants were incinerated if somebody hit it from behind? > When you say "suburban" you mean the Chevy Suburban, >right? (I don't know whether the term is used for any other vehicle.) How >old is yours now? > >I didn't even know Chevy was assembling cars in Mexico. Yes, Chevrolet Suburban. Suburbans are also marketed by GMC, but I think it's the same vehicle except for the badge. I didn't know they were assembling them in Mexico either until I drove this one home and saw something somewhere in the documentation or something that said where it was assembled. -- PeteCresswell
From: Bill Graham on 10 Nov 2009 18:02 "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:OLmdnQWi2eLSIGTXnZ2dnUVZ7rudnZ2d(a)bt.com... > > "Neil Harrington" <secret(a)illumnati.net> wrote in message > news:qOKdnbg9Q7TZDmTXnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> >> "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> wrote in message >> news:5qCdnZYI57wUg2TXnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> >>> "Neil Harrington" <not(a)home.today> wrote in message >>> news:FJKdnbcsb5IrbWXXnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>>> >>>> "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message >>>> news:w5GdnQbD2PUH_mXXnZ2dnUVZ8m2dnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>>>> >>>>> "Larry Thong" <larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:yPSdndov5ssc12rXnZ2dnUVZ_rZi4p2d(a)supernews.com... > > > >>>>> >>>>> Of course the tripod mount thread is 1/4" Whitworth. >>>> >>>> Really?! I always just assumed that was SAE too. >>>> >>> I think he's kidding.....Mine's 1/4-20 SAE. >> >> That's what I thought. But I don't think he's kidding. >> >> As far as I know, Whitworth sizes were only used on British products. >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitworth_thread > > "Within the United States, the Whitworth thread that most people encounter > is the quarter-inch thread on the bottom of most cameras for mounting on a > tripod." > > Touch�! > > Even though the Yanks left the Empire they still won't join the rest of > the world. > > Actually the Whitworth 1/4" size also uses 20 threads per inch, so it will probably fit into a 1/4-20 nut for some limited number of turns without any trouble.....
From: Bill Graham on 10 Nov 2009 18:07 "(PeteCresswell)" <x(a)y.Invalid> wrote in message news:q8rjf51hosqqt7ukn3gt713u971c30v299(a)4ax.com... > Per Neil Harrington: >>However, despite all the bad publicity given the Pinto, apart from those >>two >>final-assembly problems mine was a good car and never gave me any further >>trouble. I owned it about five years, took it on trips to Canada and to >>Florida, never had another complaint with it. > > Was Pinto the one where the occupants were incinerated if > somebody hit it from behind? > > > >> When you say "suburban" you mean the Chevy Suburban, >>right? (I don't know whether the term is used for any other vehicle.) How >>old is yours now? >> >>I didn't even know Chevy was assembling cars in Mexico. > > Yes, Chevrolet Suburban. Suburbans are also marketed by GMC, but > I think it's the same vehicle except for the badge. > > I didn't know they were assembling them in Mexico either until I > drove this one home and saw something somewhere in the > documentation or something that said where it was assembled. > -- > PeteCresswell My daughter used to use a Suburban with 4 wheel drive to carry oxygen bottles and wheelchairs to her patients in the winter snow, but she stopped buying them a few years ago because of poor reliability.
From: Neil Harrington on 10 Nov 2009 19:32
"(PeteCresswell)" <x(a)y.Invalid> wrote in message news:q8rjf51hosqqt7ukn3gt713u971c30v299(a)4ax.com... > Per Neil Harrington: >>However, despite all the bad publicity given the Pinto, apart from those >>two >>final-assembly problems mine was a good car and never gave me any further >>trouble. I owned it about five years, took it on trips to Canada and to >>Florida, never had another complaint with it. > > Was Pinto the one where the occupants were incinerated if > somebody hit it from behind? That's the one. Probably something of an exaggerated problem, but never having been hit in it from behind I can't speak from experience. Of course those who *were* incinerated in Pintos wouldn't have considered it an exaggeration. > > > >> When you say "suburban" you mean the Chevy Suburban, >>right? (I don't know whether the term is used for any other vehicle.) How >>old is yours now? >> >>I didn't even know Chevy was assembling cars in Mexico. > > Yes, Chevrolet Suburban. Suburbans are also marketed by GMC, but > I think it's the same vehicle except for the badge. > > I didn't know they were assembling them in Mexico either until I > drove this one home and saw something somewhere in the > documentation or something that said where it was assembled. > -- > PeteCresswell That's interesting. I knew some American electronic stuff has been assembled in Mexico for many years, but I guess they never advertised the fact about cars. I've read about quality differences between specific GM plants, but never saw a Mexican plant mentioned. |