[Land-speed] Fun things...

[Bryan Savage]

I use inch ounces and get real big looking numbers.
It's wonderful!!

Bryan Savage


On 4/2/2014 11:00 AM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
> Very Good!   And I think I know why the people who use newton meters use it..
> It makes their cars sound much more powerful than they are! Yup, a 100 newton
> meters is only 73 ft-lbsb&.  Yeah, that must be it! Ego involved?
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> Mayf
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> Having fun with thisb&
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> From: Jim Volgarino [mailto:volgarino at mail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:13 AM
> To: Jim Volgarino; Jon Wennerberg; Larry Mayfield
> Cc: land-speed at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...
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> Menat to send this attachment earlier...
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Jim Volgarino
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> Sent: 04/02/14 12:07 PM
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> To: Jon Wennerberg, Larry Mayfield
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> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Wennerberg
> Sent: 04/02/14 11:06 AM
> To: Larry Mayfield
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...
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> Foot pounds forever! Jon a/k/a SSS On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Larry Mayfield
> wrote: > Ok, so I woke the list up with my simple what's going on message to
> the > list, eh? How about some fun thinking. One of my pet peeves is the not
> so > subtle change from the way we talk about the units of torque, i.e. lbs-ft
>> versus ft-lbs. I have a hard time understanding a) the necessity of that, >
> b) the reasoning of it, and c) the who gives a crap of it. > > The rules of
> arithmetic (math) are pretty well known, and when the > associative laws are
> used then it does not matter one whit. And we all grew > up using it as ft-lbs
> so let's start a movement back to the way things were. > > > Reasoning is
> thusly... think about a dyno, say a water brake one. It has a > lever that
> measures from the center line of the brake to the load cell and > that is
> usually measured in feet not centimeters, millimeters, meters or > yards. The
> load is measured at the end of that lever. The associative laws > say that
>   you can use any order in multiplication of numbers and by that I > mean it
> does not matter if you multiply the length of the lever by the load > first or
> the load times the lever. One way gets you ft - lbs, the other > gives you
> lbs-ft. The order of units is not material. And ft can stand for > foot or
> feet. > > Who's with me? Let's take our heritage back! Ft-lb ers unite and
> arise! > Time we reclaimed our way of life.. Hell Yeah! > > mayf
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