Can odd parts be bought through Caswell individually

[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!!

[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!

[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]

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?

[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'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.

[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?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

(I'm ignoring you!)

[Kazzer]

Ha! No takers?

[Kazzer]

Bin there -- dun all that! It sucks!

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


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

Next - price out 12 @ 2/91/4


You should be able to do these in your head.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I don't know about you guys, but I feel that any base number system founded on the count of human extremity digits (male genitalia don't count) is just plain cheating!

Real men use the Imperial number system. It ain't supposed to be easy!

M

[greenman407]

Rubbish System??? In 1826 in Seven Sisters, London, the British themselves crafted the present units of measure that the US uses today. If I am not mistaken the United Kingdom still ,by law, still uses the Imperial system of measurement as well as the Metric System.
I dont know,.........the Metric System seems......so............so, I dont know..........foreign?:pop

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Andy

Let 'em suffer. The USA is the only country still using this rubbish system. No wonder we're going backwards here!

How the hell did we let all these Brit's in here, anyway!?....I WANT ANSWERS, damit!

M

[Subculture]

You made it easy for us Andy. Thanks

Have I? Good stuff.

Here's a little test then for anyone that wants to take it. Found a really good US based website for o-rings, and they have a chart.

http://www.oringsusa.com/html/o-rings.html

On the far left of the chart, there is a column of numbers relating to AS568, which I would take a guess is your equivalent of our BS (ahem,that's British Standards btw, not the other 'bs'!).

Tell me me what AS number you would order for the end cap spec I detailed in my last post, also if I reduced the pipe to 2.5" diameter with 1/8" wall thickness and about the same internal tolerance, what size o-ring would I order then?

[greenman407]

You made it easy for us Andy. Thanks