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Continental europe has been metric for so long I doubt they would even
recognise the term the way you use it.
Stuart
You're a fucking idiot.
Continental europe has been metric for so long I doubt they would even
recognise the term the way you use it.
Stuart
Sorry but it is you who are wrong.
I have been involved in engineering in the UK for 40 odd years.
0.001 inch was always referred to as "thou" for thousandths of an inch.
As the metric system came into use the term mil was and is used as
shorthand, in speech, for millimetres because no-one can be bothered to
say millimetres every time you want to pass someone a dimension.
I cannot speak for other english speaking countries but I don't even know
which have gone metric.
Continental europe has been metric for so long I doubt they would even
recognise the term the way you use it.
Stuart
Interesting, we have 250Kwatt 100khz oscillators that require 260 amps @Stuart said:Well, I'm not going to argue with you Spehro but, as a young "Technical
assistant" in the BBC's transmitter department, when we were assembling
the capacitors for the final stage grid transformers on the Marconi SWB18
HF transmitters, we always measured the Mica sheets (if you can call
something around 4"x3" a sheet) in "thou". Throughout my entire career as
an electronic engineer with the BBC, I don't recall anyone using the term
"mil" instead of "thou".
Of course, in those early days, we frequently "rubbed shoulders" with the
mechanical engineering technicians. Those old pre-war transmitters
required a range of skills. 10mW of audio in, 100kW of amplitude modulated
carrier out. 11kV HT was from continuously pumped, steel tank, mercury arc
rectifiers; bias and filament from motor-generator sets and lots of water
and air for cooling. Maybe their use of terminology "rubbed off" on us
electronic bods.
Regards
Stuart.
I certainly have, though you're obviously too stupid to remember.Peter Hucker wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:32:54 +0000, Peter Hucker wrote:
Mil is confusing. A lot of folk in metric countries say "mil" short for
millimetre.
Wrong. A mil is 0.001 inch (short for milli-inch); metric countries would
have no reason to use it.
Thanks,
Rich
Wrong. Being in a metric country mil means millimeter.
Some day the US will catch up with the rest of us?
That would be like getting an STD, just to prove you can.
You object to the metric system? [scoffs]
Small minds always scoff.
I take it back, you are even more childish than Ian Field. You can sit next to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.
Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up his
newsreader.
My newsreader works just fine. Any problems you are experiencing are up your end.
No, dumbass, you are simply too stupid to realize you're phucked up.
You haven't even stated the problem you're having. That's like putting your car into a garage and saying it's broken.
The only thing you've said in the last month is that up there: "Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up his newsreader."
I said THE REST OF THE WORLD, idiot. If I only meant the US, I wouldThe US of A is not "the rest of the world" even if you are so
geographically challenged as to think so.
Stuart said:Those are the facts, sunshine, whether you like them or not
A 300 MW brown coal unit which I visited in Kozani (east Macedonia-area ofÏ "Stuart said:The original valves in those transmitters (CAT29 triodes in push-pull
class C for the final) had pure tungsten filaments running at 20V DC. By
the time I saw them they had CAT30s with thioriated (sp?) tungsten and
were fed at 9V. Same MG set, just lower field current. IIRC the filament
generators were capable of 2000A. DC was used to avoid hum modulation of
the output and the polarity was reversed every week. Later transmitters
used AC fills, usually two phase derived by Scott connection of the supply
transformers.
The last HF transmitters I worked on before moving on to "domestic
services" were Marconi 300kW using a single Thomson Tetrode for the output
- Hypervapourtron (tm) cooling and Pyroblock (tm) grid. Apart from the
output valve pretty well everything was solid state, including the 25kV
rectifier stack.
The rapid descent into insults, when you've lost an argument or cannot
come up with reasoned argument, is usually a sign of immaturity so I
ignore them.
This can do it, in fact it could do it in Windows 3. Update your newsreader.
Peter Hucker wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:32:54 +0000, Peter Hucker wrote:
Mil is confusing. A lot of folk in metric countries say "mil" short for
millimetre.
Wrong. A mil is 0.001 inch (short for milli-inch); metric countries would
have no reason to use it.
Thanks,
Rich
Wrong. Being in a metric country mil means millimeter.
Some day the US will catch up with the rest of us?
That would be like getting an STD, just to prove you can.
You object to the metric system? [scoffs]
Small minds always scoff.
I take it back, you are even more childish than Ian Field. You can sit next to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.
Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up his
newsreader.
My newsreader works just fine. Any problems you are experiencing are up your end.
No, dumbass, you are simply too stupid to realize you're phucked up.
You haven't even stated the problem you're having. That's like putting your car into a garage and saying it's broken.
I certainly have, though you're obviously too stupid to remember.
The only thing you've said in the last month is that up there: "Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up his newsreader."
Like I said, you're a stupid Brit and can't be expected to
understand. Hint: Your line length is phucked up. Of course being
a stupid, arrogant, Brit, you don't care.
http://www.hucker.plus.com/temp/notepad.jpg
This can do it, in fact it could do it in Windows 3. Update your newsreader.
Peter Hucker wrote:
snip
I didn't think you were smart enough to use a kill filter. There
might be a tiny bit of hope for you. That is, after hell freezes over.
If you don't like the sigs, ignore them. That's what the delimiter is for.
Says the idiot limey who doesn't even know how to set up hisPeter Hucker wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:32:54 +0000, Peter Hucker wrote:
Mil is confusing. A lot of folk in metric countries say "mil" short for
millimetre.
Wrong. A mil is 0.001 inch (short for milli-inch); metric countries would
have no reason to use it.
Thanks,
Rich
Wrong. Being in a metric country mil means millimeter.
Some day the US will catch up with the rest of us?
That would be like getting an STD, just to prove you can.
You object to the metric system? [scoffs]
Small minds always scoff.
I take it back, you are even more childish than Ian Field. You can sit next to him in my killfile. Go snuggle up, you'll get on well together.
newsreader.
My newsreader works just fine. Any problems you are experiencing are up your end.
Get back to your paded cell.
My screen is wide enough for 160 characters. Yours is probably 120? At any rate, if your newsreader is working properly, my lines will wrap to your screen size, whatever that may be. Why the hell would you want it in a neat column with blank space to the right, and have to scroll further down to read the whole message?
Line length is nothing to do with sig delimiters. One is a guideline, the other is a command to strip the text below.
As in pieces of shit like you... Yes.Lever: As in a flush lever?
When WILL you learn to spell properly? it's ARSEWIPE, you dullard!
I'll explain to you again, as you obviously aren't listening. Not everyone wants the same width.