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Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:02 pm
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At my local Shell station 89 non ethanol is priced the same as 93 (with up to 10% ethanol). |
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #45Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #44 Wanna talk about Brexit? Seriously, the BTU's thing is my bad. It is an antiquated unit of measure, much like the Imperial gallon. I should have used Joules, but that seems too "engineering" for polite conversation. Believe it or not, when I did my undergrad engineering degree all my textbooks were written in metric (SI or System International) units. Within a few years of graduation, the administration in power called metrification a bunch of BS and the country has been in "unit of measure" limbo ever since. Anyone building products for an international market is doing their work in metric. Stuff for the domestic market can be either metric or old fractional. Sadly, fractional units are now called SAE (Soc. of Auto. Eng.) which is a real misnomer, since domestic vehicle production has used metric for decades. Old Forum Orphan |
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #47Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #45Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #44 the EU does not mean universal use of metric units - France and Spain still use plumbing fittings in inches and you can often buy a pint of beer.
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #48Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #47Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #45Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #44 Imperial pint or US pint?
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #49Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #48Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #47Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #45Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #44 mostly you will still get a half litre, sometimes in a UK Nonic pint glass with a 500ml white line on the side it's not unusual to get half a litre in the UK but that is because they are robbing you by serving a very frothy head
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #50Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #49Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #48Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #47Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #45Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #44 I prefer a glass that holds 1/2 liter in a single pour. Of course, Guinness cheats with their 14.9-ounce widget cans. They don't even fill a 16-ounce, at the rim, glass...... Sad, I say!
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I never thought I’d pull this stunt again, but today was the day.
Carpe Diem!
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Zitat von Boxerboy55 im Beitrag #52 Well, the pump meter at the petrol station is never going to undermeasure how much gasoline they sell you.... That said, glad you made it, well done; that's closer to 18 l than I'd ever want to see.
“A good man always knows his limitations.”
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In my experience plug will / should be ok until tyre replacement due. A friend of mine recently suffered a puncture on his GS plugged it with a string to get home when he then removed rear wheel and took it to local specialist to have a mushroom internal type plug fitted as the nail was in bottom of trend grove and the tyre is almost new condition. |
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My wild guess is the exact volume of the fuel tank may be close to 19L, but we’re rightly advised not to overfill to allow a sensible expansion space. It’s a funny shape when you see the black plastic tank without the external bodywork.
Carpe Diem!
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Copied here from another thread regarding my return from europe, pre-covid- Fuel consumption on my European trip |
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