Can odd parts be bought through Caswell individually

[Kazzer]

Ha! No takers?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

(I'm ignoring you!)

[Subculture]

Four pounds, two shillings, nine pence and three farthings
Five pounds, nine shillings, eleven and a half pence
Seven pounds, seventeen shillings, six pence and one farthing
Seven pounds, one penny, one farthing
Nineteen pounds and eleven shillings

Price out 12 for two shillings nine pence and one farthing.

No one tackled the o-ring question then?

[Kazzer]

(I'm ignoring you!)

You lot are pitiful!


Try this - add these up Pounds shillings and pence - the fractions are farthings

4/2/9 = 4 pounds 2 shillings and 9 pence the 3/4 = 3 farthings - there are 4 farthings in a penny the 1/2 = a half penny or 2 farthings

(Good grief - this is so easy)

4/2/93/4
5/9/111/2
7/17/61/4
7/0/11/4
19/11

Lets add the farthing first - = 7 farthings which equals 1 penny and 3 farthings carry the penny
3/4
Next add the pennies. There are 12 pennies in a shilling. =38 plus the penny carried = 39 = 3 shillings and 3 pennies. Carry the 3 shillings
33/4
Next add the shillings. There are 20 shillings in a pound. = 39 + the 3 shillings carries = 42 = 2 pounds 2 shillings. Carry the 2 pounds.
2/33/4
Are you still here?

Next add the pounds = 23 + the carried 2 pounds = 25

£25/2/33/4 or 25 pounds, 2 shillings and thruppence three farthings

You all got that, didn't you?

Next - price out 12 @ 2/91/4

Now this one is easy. Do it in your head!

12 x 1/4 = 3 pennies. carry them
12 x 9d (pence) = 108 = 9 shillings. carry them
12 x 2 shillings = 24 shillings = 2 pounds 4 shillings and the three pennies = £2/4/3

The British Empire was built on this. This currency stretched the mind, and even the dullest **** could add up his pay packet and do these simple maths problems. So what have you lot been doing all your lives? England went into serious decline as soon as they decimalized the currency.

[Kazzer]

Four pounds, two shillings, nine pence and three farthings
Five pounds, nine shillings, eleven and a half pence
Seven pounds, seventeen shillings, six pence and one farthing
Seven pounds, one penny, one farthing
Nineteen pounds and eleven shillings

Price out 12 for two shillings nine pence and one farthing.

No one tackled the o-ring question then?

You didn't add them all up, AND it's not
Nineteen pounds and eleven shillings, its 19 shillings and eleven pence!

And it's not a 'half pence' it's a ha'penny!

You're showing you age here Andy! (I mean the lack of it)

Good grief - stand in the corner!

[Kazzer]

I forgot! We can further reduce the farthing to MITES. There are 8 mites in a penny, and therefore two mites in a farthing.

So the price could be

£4/2/97/8

Had enough now?

[Subculture]

You do realize that decimalisation occurred about 18 months before I was born.

You didn't put the correct symbols in front of the pounds, so I took it that you put 19/11 in there was pounds but no pence. If you put the £ in before the other parts but left it off the last bit, I'd have accepted that as 19 shillings and eleven pence.

[Kazzer]

You do realize that decimalisation occurred about 18 months before I was born.

That was obvious! :biggrin:

You didn't put the correct symbols in front of the pounds, so I took it that you put 19/11 in there was pounds but no pence. If you put the £ in before the other parts but left it off the last bit, I'd have accepted that as 19 shillings and eleven pence.

I didn't need to put anything in front. That was a given, and the fact that 19/11 was written so, was correct. There were only two figures, so you'd have known there were no pounds.

These young whippesnappers! Ah well! I show my age!

[vital.spark]

Now where the High Wheeler got the name Penny Farthing!

My first visit to the UK was in 1968 and I can tell you that it would have been great if the a currancy conversion calculater had been invented!

Actually it's a great time for the US to go metric. What a great form of stimulis, every mechanic, home handy man etc. would have to go out and buy Metric tools!!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I'll go metric the day they pry my old-school (battery not required!), fractional micrometer from my cold, dead hand!

M

[Subculture]

I used to own a 1984 mini 1000, that had a mixture of metric and imperial fittings (as built by the factory BTW), so I used to have to wheel out both my metric and imperial toolsets when working on the little rascal. That car was the spawn of satan. An earlier 1978 car was a lot easier to work on, being all one standard.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I used to own a 1984 mini 1000, that had a mixture of metric and imperial fittings (as built by the factory BTW), so I used to have to wheel out both my metric and imperial toolsets when working on the little rascal. That car was the spawn of satan. An earlier 1978 car was a lot easier to work on, being all one standard.

My Navy bought some mine sweepers in the 60's from you guys. All metric. What nightmares they were, not only had the tools had to be metric (not the norm for us), but many of the tools carried on board had to be non-ferrous.

M

[Subculture]

Surprised you got metric kit from the UK in the '60's, don't think we really started to seriously convert until the 1970's. When I was in technical college back in the late '80's I still had to produce about 35-40% my work to imperial tolerances and measurement, even though the machines were calibrated in metric.

[Kazzer]

Andy

You'd appreciate my son's business www.britishfasteners.com with BA BSF BSW ME BSC and BSP threads and tools! Right here in America too!

[greenman407]

We have the same problem making Hydraulic hoses for all this Heavy Equipment out here from all manner of manufactures. First of all you have NPTF(national pipe thread fuel), NPSM swivel thread, JIC 37 degree,SAE 45 degree, SAE Oring, Flat Face, Inverted Flare, Compression Thread, Code 61, Code 62, BSPP(British Standard Pipe parallel), BSPT(British Standard Pipe Taper), Japanese Pipe tapered, Air Brake Thread. Then to boot you have the 5 major Metric threads: Witworth, MDL, MDH, Komatsu, French. Then of course Caterpillar has their own as well. OMG!!!Give him a soapbox!

P.S. After I wrote this I thought of a few others