Grams to ounces or pounds.

Yvsa

Yvsa

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I have been having a hard time with the differnce in grams to pounds or ounces. I finally got out my old machinist helpbook and thought that others mught be interested in the formulas also.

The formula for grams to ounces is Grams X 0.03527

The formula for grams to pounds is
Grams X 2.205 X 10-³

686 grams comes out to 1.5146451 pounds.

I can also post the other way around if anyone needs it.ie Pounds to Grams. I have found it is easier for people who are familiar with the metric system to know about what the equivelent in pounds is.
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I hope this helps some of you that may be like me when it comes to weights and measures in the metric system.
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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
 
Thanks Yvsa. I finally had to master all this when I lived in Nepal plus they had a few local measures I'd never heard of like "tola" and "ropani" which I also had to learn in order to survive.

Uncle Bill
 
Yvsa,

It might be easier to remember whole numbers.

i.e.

454 g = 7000 gr = 1 lb = 16 oz.

Here in Canada we use both Metric and Imperial.


Will
 
Some years back there was an effort to convert everybody to metric as I recall. What happened? Metric is easier.

Uncle Bill
 
The US is the only country still using neolithic measures; has been for some years now. IMHO it's up to us to do the conversion and give modern as well as neolithic era measurements in our posts; you'll notice I always give metric equivalents in parentheses in my posts. I think it would be unreasonable to expect the rest of the world to learn an obsolete system just so they can translate posts from us in the United States.

Maybe someday the US will join the modern world, too, but don't hold your breath waiting. You can get a lot of entertainment from the metric versus neolithic flame wars on the net, especially on rec.crafts.metalworking. There's an amazing number of machinists who believe the metric system is a communist plot to weaken our moral fiber and take away our god-given freedom to waste our time converting inches to feet to yards to miles....

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
You will find metric measures used in almost every field involving the sciences. And cola bottles. In my opinion it is a matter of ingrained habit in the U.S. to use the english system of measure. I mean who wants to order a 112 gram'er with cheese at the local McDonalds? Its the system Americans grew up with and if anything it makes sense to us. I know what an acre is but if you tried to sell me a hectare of land I wouldn't even know if I could park my boat on it.

Sam.

...Only slightly xenophobic about measures
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Thanks Will.
That s handy,saves me from digging out the calculator.Math wasn't one of my strong points.
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Do you have an easy method for lengths also ? I was on a site the other day using centimeters for knife lengths.
I guess I am going to have to dust off that part of my brain.
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Uncle Bill.
I think metric is easier to. I have been out of the machine shop for five years now and I have lost a lot of the numbers in my head. I was just beginning to be able to think a little in metric length measurements.
When I had to quit work more and more companies were having to convert to stay in the international market.
We had even started to make metric concrete anchors.
I started this because I noticed several people making references to the Kukris in grams.
I thought some others may be having the same problem I was with the wieghts.

Cougar.
I have to agree with you about old machinists and "The Plot."
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Many indeed believe just that !!
The other problem was replaceing all the measureing tools to metric. That would have cost a lot of us a bunch of money. I shudder today thinking about what the new tools cost compared to the old ones,even though wages were comparable I think.
I was really pleased with the last tool gift my wife bought me. It was a Brown & Sharpe 6" Digital Calipers.
It also had the metric measurement available on it as well as the inch.

Sam.
You are right. I think over time that will change as more and more people become familiar with the metric system. I guess you could call it
"Creeping Metricism."
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I guess that means a really big knife or small Kukri will be 42 - 45 centimeters long.? ")

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®
 
Yvsa,

For lengths:

3.2808 ft = 1 m = 100 cm

A simpler one to remember but introduces about 1% error (which will propagate for multiple measurements) is:

39 in. = 1 m

This pretty well gets me all my metric converstions for length.

Bill,

As well as conversion cost there are a few memorable errors. For example, the Bren gun is designed to hold 30 rounds but due to an error in conversion some magazines hold only 28 rounds. Less common today are errors due to specs. sent to the US in metric but constructed with uncoverted Imperial dimensions.

Will
 
HI Bill and Greetings all,

May I suggest a superb program that automatically converts many values with elegant ease for pc users running Win 95.
It's called Madison Convert, I have been using it for a while, and if you try it, you'll wonder how you ever did without it.
Cost? Absolutely free. Almost 75000 people have downloaded it from ZDnet. Give it a try, and I bet Bill,Cliff,Cobalt and all will love this one.
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P.S. The Bulletin Board Software is pruning the url above,leaving out the last 10 characters to autocreate the clickable link,which of course is wrong,unless one adds the last ten characters above that are not blue highlighted. Unfortunately, I can't rectify it now. If you don't feel like manually copying said link, type in Convert Madison in the search field when the bogus url takes ya to Microsoft Fighter Ace download page instead of Convert.

Been busy chopping logs(branches) with my BAS. It performed superbly as expected.

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[This message has been edited by Phil Squire (edited 10 June 1999).]
 
I agree that the US is way behind in converting to metric. The US Army teaches you the max effective range of your weapon in meters, likewise, map work is done in meters (therefore artillery fire direction and target acquisition is in meters) yet the speedometer of military tactical vehicles is predominently in miles per hour. What a crazy mixed up system. It would take less than a generation to get smart but we won't take the plunge. I bet there are those with a political agenda behind this! On the other hand, most would panic if they realized it would take 80 liters to fill their gas tank! I wonder how many centimeters long my BAS is--I'll have to go measure it. Bruce Woodbury
 
Interesting post, Bruce. Guys in the motor pool who work on the vehicles use a different system than those who ride in the vehicles.

I am surprised the major oil companies don't get behind the metric system. Then they could say, "Look how we've cut our prices! Only fifty cents per liter."

Uncle Bill
 
Eh Bruce,

Artillery fire would not be where I would want to make a coversion error.

Thanks for the info Phil. The older designers around here like to use inches and fractions. They also come up with a few obscure units of measure. That program might come in handy.

Will
 
Come to think of it, when I was flying every cockpit instrument read in Imperial. I have never flown in a foreign made aircraft (in the cockpit, at least) and I wonder if they read in Imperial, too. Does anybody know for sure? John Powell, input please!

Uncle Bill
 
I just gotta respond to Cougar's comment about machinists who think the metric system is a commie plot to weaken our "moral(????) fiber"...

You gotta be kidding. As an apprentist machinist the most common unit of measurement I heard was based on the hair, i.e.:

"Mill off just a hair more"

"OK, now take off just a c--- hair more."

"Almost got it, now just an rch ( red c--- hair ) more and that's it!"

Try converting those units to metric - ROFLMAO! Rusty
 

Hey Rusty.
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Me too ROFL !!
It has been about 5 years since I last worked and I hadn't heard that for a long time. You probably know what a B.M.F.H. is to,or a L.B.M.F.P. ,and then I had my pet name for my little brass hammer that I just moved things by pecking them over a c- hair at a time.
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I had a large bronze hammer that I was weighing one day because the boss wanted one just a bit smaller.
This youngster came by and asked why I was weighing the hammer.I told him that it was a precision hammer and if it lost a certain amount of weight then it had to be sent in to be recalibrated. We carried him high about that for a long time.Kinda like that "Sky Hook" thing.
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I don't know what this has to do with Kuhkuris,but it has turned into a informative fun thread.
I wish I could download that sight Phil posted.I may be able to save it though,if it will work like that.
Thanks for the laugh. I needed
that.
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;---¥vsa----&gt;®
 
What does this all have to do with khukuries? Why splitting hairs as a standardized measurement of sharpness, of course. Do you mean to tell me you DON'T keep all your khukuries sharp enough to split an r.c.h. in two lengthwise?

( *edit* P.S., stick around this forum long enough and you'll learn why we keep hip waders around for when it starts getting deep! )

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 12 June 1999).]
 
Laughter is good medicine and makes us feel good. If we don't feel good how can we use our khukuris? It all ties together.

Uncle Bill
 
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