Author Topic: 'mericans and being imperial  (Read 2663 times)

Re: 'mericans and being imperial
« Reply #25 on: 04 July, 2015, 06:01:12 pm »
<CDO ON>
4.546 litre = 1 gallon
<CDO OFF>

Except if you're on the wrong side of the Atlantic, in which case it only takes 3.785 litre.  ;D
What's this bottom line for anyway?

hellymedic

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Re: 'mericans and being imperial
« Reply #26 on: 04 July, 2015, 06:13:05 pm »
That's me down to a tee.
I go back and forth all the time.
 
Me too. Estimate a distance in feet, as 6' just seems easier than 1.8m. Same with 6" instead of 150mm. But if I'm actually geetting a tape out to  measure it - mm all the way.
Volumes I tend to do in litres or buckets as most buckets are about 10 litres which isn't that far off a gallon as a rough estimate anyway. I also have a mental picture of 25litres (small oil drum) 200litres (big oil drum) and a tonne is a cubic metre of water.

Rig side of the oil industry makes no sense to me at all.

<Cough>

If a bucket holds two gallons, that's around 9 litres, I would have thought.

But your buckets may vary.
I am talking BRITISH units.

Piemaster

Re: 'mericans and being imperial
« Reply #27 on: 04 July, 2015, 11:43:51 pm »
Oops. It is of course 2 gallons. A proper British gallon too, even if it's only a (very) rough estimate.

Of course it all depends on if its a metric or imperial bucket, much the same way I have both a metric and imperial adjustable spanner.