Unit conversion

[Admin Jaap]

I've noticed we sometimes have problems with US units vs. European ISO units. I found a freeware program that converts every thinkable unit to ISO or vice versa.

 

The online version is here: Versaverter Online

The downloadable version (2Mb) is found here: Versaverter (self extractable file-Windows only)

[jrt]

Hi Jaap,

 

Thats a great idea- for those of us who use macs, a great freeware program is balancepro

http://www.macdev.ca/macos/Freeware.html

For OS X. Did I mention it was free?

 

cheers,

Jason

[Guest captain nemo]

Thanks Jaap. Since the manual is in metric, (and since you are the host of the forum), it would probably be good form for the rest of us to use metric. I'd like to start thinking in those terms anyway because a lot of what I read is in metric measure. Metric makes sense anyway and what we use does not.

 

By the way, the web site is really moving slowly tonight. (just for your info if there is some problem)

[gthyni]

And for the Palm then:

Matt Marsh' Converter

freeware

[Admin Jaap]

By the way, the web site is really moving slowly tonight. (just for your info if there is some problem)

It wasn't me! I couldn't get on the forum at all last night. My guess is there was a server problem, because my email and FTP didn't work too...

[Admin Jaap]

I'd like to start thinking in those terms anyway because a lot of what I read is in metric measure. Metric makes sense anyway and what we use does not.

To be honest, Captain, you were the cause of me looking fot this software. I read "pounds per inch" in one of your posts. I thought that was too difficult to calculate to Nm so I started Googling for some freeware. So thanks!

[Guest captain nemo]

Yea, we measure torque in 'foot pounds' and 'seventy foot pounds of torque' is meaningful to any American biker. But I don't even know what Nm stands for - Newton meters? I'll get the hang of it in time.

 

I knew I had caused your concern with this funny talk.....

[emry]

If I recall seventy foot pound is equal to "pretty darn tight."

 

or

 

If I recall ninty four newton meters is equal to "pretty darn tight."

 

[emry]

Convert

 

This is the one I have used for a ahwile.

 

This site is dedicated to computer calc's, I have also used Calc98 with a good degree of satisfaction. Sure beats that Windows piece of junk.