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Re: Air line piping: Part Deux...er...Trois

To: pethier@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Air line piping: Part Deux...er...Trois
From: ScottyGrover@aol.com
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:17:58 EST
In a message dated 1/3/2007 10:57:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
pethier@comcast.net writes:

>  >From: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
> > > So if a  gal is .158 Cu Ft
> At 04:49 03/01/2007, Phil Ethier wrote:
>  >It's not.  It's closer to .134
> >One gallon is about 7.48  cubic feet.
OOPS.  One cubic foot is about 7.48 gallons.  I  really must slow down...

From: nick brearley  <nick@landform.co.uk>
> It depends. According to Pocket Ref   1 US Dry gallon is  0.15556 cu 

I don't know anyone who uses US  Dry gallons for anything.

>1 US Liquid gallon is 0.13368 cu  ft.

Yes.  That's pretty close to .134, like I said. 

>  Perhaps the gallon/cu ft figures should be transposed?

Yeah, I fixed  that typo above.  Thanks for catching it.

> Nick  Brearley
> Wont muddy the waters any further by bringing real gallons  (imp) into 
> the equation.  : ^) 

It's all Thomas  Jefferson's fault.  If he could have put his ego in "Park" 
for five  minutes, we'd be all metric.

--



Or at least change the definition of a yard from 39.37" to 40"---but I  don't 
think there was a National Bureau of Standards in Red Tom's time.  
 
Scotty




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