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From: (PeteCresswell) on 10 Nov 2009 19:34 Per Bill Graham: > >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. This one, the first new car I've ever owned, has stranded me a total of six times so far. That's more times than I've been stranded (once) by 30+ years of driving beaters. But go in the snow, it does. In a nice heavy snowfall, I make a game out of seeing how long I can go with using 4wd. Usually it's until I do something stupid like stopping at the bottom of a hill or going into a rutted area without enough momentum. -- PeteCresswell
From: Neil Harrington on 10 Nov 2009 19:51 "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." That's interesting. But the chart on that page shows 1/4-20 to be a standard Whitworth size, so a 1/4-20 SAE bolt still fits, even if not perfectly. I believe the shape of the threads is slightly different between the two. For American mechanics working with Whitworth bolts, nuts and wrenches, the main problem is the difference in wrench sizes -- which is only because SAE measures size across the flats while Whitworth measures point to opposite point. > > Touch�! > > Even though the Yanks left the Empire they still won't join the rest of > the world. And go metric, you mean? There'd be no point to it. Metric is silly for most ordinary purposes, and it would cost billions to change everything. Hexadecimal really makes far more sense than metric, and that is closer to the old familiar English systems of measure. You blokes should have stayed with what you had. (Well, except for currency I suppose. But even that had the advantage of being charmingly quaint.)
From: Allen on 10 Nov 2009 20:24 (PeteCresswell) wrote: > 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? A neighbor, a retired engineeyu ring prof, served as an expert witness in auto liability cases back in the Pinto days. One day one of his daughters came home driving a Pinto. His comment: "If you're in a bad wreck, I hope you're killed in the impact". Answer your question? Allen
From: J�rgen Exner on 11 Nov 2009 01:38 "Neil Harrington" <secret(a)illumnati.net> wrote: >And go metric, you mean? There'd be no point to it. Metric is silly for most >ordinary purposes, Yeah, right. That's probably the reason why 200+ countries are using it where there are only 3 that don't. >and it would cost billions to change everything. "Those who are late will be punished by life itself." >Hexadecimal really makes far more sense than metric, You got 16 fingers? Amazing! And you are fluent in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing them, too? Like 3A4F + BE3 * 2D5? Even more amazing! Besides, what does the radix of a numeral system have to do with metric or not? >and that is closer to >the old familiar English systems of measure. ??? What? Where except for small liquid quantities? >You blokes should have stayed >with what you had. (Well, except for currency I suppose. But even that had >the advantage of being charmingly quaint.) How many cubic inches are in a gallon, again? How many tea spoon are in one cubic foot of water? And how many inches are there to a mile? And how high can I lift 1 pound with the energy provided by 1 BTU in 1 hour? And do you even know how a furlong by a chain is commonly called today? Now tell me again, that that nonsense makes any logical sense. jue
From: Bill Graham on 11 Nov 2009 03:36
"(PeteCresswell)" <x(a)y.Invalid> wrote in message news:oe1kf596b0n1h84vi0dhj9j7m2541njgeq(a)4ax.com... > Per Bill Graham: >> >>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. > > This one, the first new car I've ever owned, has stranded me a > total of six times so far. That's more times than I've been > stranded (once) by 30+ years of driving beaters. > > But go in the snow, it does. In a nice heavy snowfall, I make a > game out of seeing how long I can go with using 4wd. Usually > it's until I do something stupid like stopping at the bottom of a > hill or going into a rutted area without enough momentum. > -- > PeteCresswell Yes. My daughter owns a home health care business in Wyoming, and she needed a big warm truck (like the suburban) but now she uses something else.....( I forget exactly what it is) She has to carry heavy equipment, and sometimes the patients themselves around in the snow..... |