[Mg-mmm] Head Stud Torque and Checking

[spook01]

can you imagine French designed plumbing with metric coarse pipe thead?  ;-)
Ray

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From: "Lawrie Alexander" <lawrie at britcars.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Mg-mmm] Head Stud Torque and Checking


> And it amuses me that, in the UK, petrol is sold by the litre and most 
> cars have their speedometers in kph, yet fuel economy is still measured in 
> miles per gallon!
>
> Lawrie
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>> In the UK we refer to Metric or Imperial (not English) and the plural of
>> Foot is Feet.  It is interesting to note that while France is supposed to 
>> be all
>> metric the French still use British Standard Pipe Taper thread (BSPT) for
>> their plumbing.
>> Paul Duncombe
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