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    Free Rec Room Couch or maybe an Upgrade

    If you want to pay for fuel, I'm halfway there....
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    Utah travel tips?

    WY- take 191 north from Rock Springs to 28 over to Riverton, then 20 to Thermopolis, then up to Cody. If you have time either 14 or 16 over to I90 are very scenic mountain driving too In Cody there's a Wild West museum @historicalarms was telling me about, as well as a Sharps museum or factory...
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    Spade connector question

    I prefer using a Weatherpac fitting. Plugs and unplugs, but both sides seals with o-rings
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    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I have zero idea what you just said
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    2002 VW Golf refurb

    Hydraulic?
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    Air compressor not restarting

    Dumb question - are there ammeters for AC and DC? Or is an ammeter neutral?
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    Rain in Edmonton

    Right, I knew there was 3 different tons. We commonly use the short ton. Where would you use a long ton?
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    Rain in Edmonton

    Well the ship I'm referring to would've been around the same time you're referencing them making a metric standard, in the 17-1800's There is something to that, I think legally the states can use metric if they choose Big trucks must follow different rules then? Mine is probably 80% imperial...
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    Rain in Edmonton

    Did that book mention why the USA isn't metric? I don't know all the facts but there was a ship sailing from Europe with some metric standard rods, it either sank or was pirated, the standards were lost. So the USA stayed (mostly) imperial.
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    Rain in Edmonton

    Well no, an imperial ton is 2000 pounds, so to me that's more logical than a metric tonne being 2200 pounds. That's why I say metric is never round numbers. Maybe if you stay working in metric it's ok but it's the converting to imperial that makes metric messy? What the heck is a decimeter...
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