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[r.tec]

Is the water and oil temperature on a Mini measured in Celsius or Fahrenheit? Well there are more: Kelvin, Rankine and certainly even more...

Edited by r.tec, 22 June 2025 - 04:45 PM.

[sonscar]

What about C,N,H are they metric?or imperial?Steve..

[Spider]

There was a book I read a couple of years back which still seems to be in print, given where this discussion is going, some may find it interesting;-

 

 

I thought it was a good read.
 

[Steam]

Given that all the actual parameters are the smae it really makes no differemce what you measure it in. The only issue is with spanners and sockets etc. My 8 inch pliers are the same as my 250mm pliers. And a car is the same length and width etc regardless of which measure you choose to use.
You pay your money, you make your xhoice.

[68+86auto]

Although entertaining, the replies have gone off-topic and are only going to confuse the people who use metric tools on a mini.

[Quinlan minor]

 

The Concorde, being an Anglo-French project had the fuselage, including the droop nose, dimensioned in Imperial and wings were in metric.
The fuselage was designed in Bristol, the droop nose in Cambridge, hence Imperial, and the wings were designed in France, hence Metric.
Still, it did fly very well.

And its 50,000 litre fuel tanks, were loaded with Lbs of fuel.

 

And, when we're flying: Visibility is in kilometeres, Height in feet, Windspeed in knots. 

[Designer]

Hi,

 

And, when we're flying: Visibility is in kilometeres, Height in feet, Windspeed in knots. 

 

That just ties everything together.

 

Paddy

[TeddytheSpoon]

I've used metric tools plenty on my mini. But only because some of the fasteners were so rusty or rounded that I needed to interference fit a slightly smaller socket...

[Spider]

Is the water and oil temperature on a Mini measured in Celsius or Fahrenheit? Well there are more: Kelvin, Rankine and certainly even more...

 

When I ran a host of worry gauges, I had coolant temp in C and Oil Pressure in PSI.

[Steam]

I used to work for a US company and the MD once asked me, referring to the length of a piece of equipment, "what is 14 meters plus 5 foot". I replied "that's easy, its 14m 5ft."

Was that the moment, that triggered the "Used to work for them"  ?

No actually but it was just 1 more nail in the Aussie / US battlefront.