Wes806 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Why does almost everyone use k. Example I rode 1k mile this week oe it will cost you 25k to fix it. WHATEVER happened to useing the mile or hundred or thousands for mileage or repair costs. Call me old school or whatever but this k / km I don't get it / understand it all. My rant for the day LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Whole world metric, US standard system. Guess they all think we wrong… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Minded Farmer Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Que? 😁 Mike 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtfireman85 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 because on a cell phone it is much easier to type 1K than it is to type one thousand dollars or $1,000.00. if you want to know why people use KM instead of miles, it is usually because that's what they use where they are from. pretty sure that US and Mike Newman are the only people who use Miles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Cause the fewer buttons I push with my fat fingers there is 100k less chance of making a typo. K?😁 1 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoshoe Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 3 minutes ago, iowaboy1965 said: Cause the fewer buttons I push with my fat fingers there is 100k less chance of making a typo. K?😁 But my stupid phone will fill in the blanks and make it total gibberish anyway. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Yours too? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillman Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 54 minutes ago, Wes806 said: Why does almost everyone use k. Example I rode 1k mile this week oe it will cost you 25k to fix it. WHATEVER happened to useing the mile or hundred or thousands for mileage or repair costs. Call me old school or whatever but this k / km I don't get it / understand it all. My rant for the day LOL. doesn't make sense to me either 25k for a car? the K is 1000s not distance, so they should be putting 25k -km? or 25k-miles stupid I still use miles like Mike and you guys another one that drives me nuts it ft/lbs why are the kids calling it pound feet ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Because they are confused with pound sand which they would probably hear if they were near me. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsaIHCs Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 K is the abbreviation for kilo. In metrics, kilo means one thousand. Kilometer means one thousand meters. Kilogram means one thousand grams. So it has become almost universally accepted that no matter what your talking about, k of anything is 1,000 of that thing. $10k is $10,000. People also commonly call (for example) a 5,000 meter race a 5k, which technically would be a 5km race. When I was in 4th grade, in the late 70s, we were told that within 5 years, everything in the USA would be measured in metric. Obviously, we have devolved into a confusing hybrid of metric and imperial measurements. IMHO! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 8 minutes ago, lotsaIHCs said: in the late 70s, we were told that within 5 years, everything in the USA would be measured in metric. 7 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 The one that really ticks me off is people saying “202” instead of the year “2002”. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoshoe Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Pounds/feet is just as wrong as foot/pounds. Supposedly the correct term would be pounds/foot as you are measuring force on a one foot lever. As long as it is written ft/lbs I will know how to set my torque wrench. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 We had it drummed into us in college (yes, inCanada, mechanics go to school and have to write a government certificate of qualification exam) that it is lb/ft. As is pounds at the radius of a foot. It may have been just a couple of the profs though. I have seen it written that way in tech manuals too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I graduated HS in 81 and metric was introduced in the mid to late 70's, that said it was a phased approach and I don't recall much math being metric and we were still buying Imp gallons for fuel when it was driving in 79, when I went to technical school in 83 it was full bore so you know had to know both systems and convert back and forth, some things metric is a more logical system other things it has no place like our surveyed land parcels and road grids, if you ask me it was a beurocractic nightmare that never needed to occur and must have cost a huge amount of K 😁 for what? Like a first learned language I still fall back to the old way. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Fan Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Baseball counts strike-outs in "K's". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillman Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 13 minutes ago, Farmall Doctor said: The one that really ticks me off is people saying “202” instead of the year “2002”. you forgot your fav one- see below I 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Oh, good grief! I will NEVER stop correcting people on that! Piss be upon c@$e! 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillman Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Its ft/lbs 'til death for me give me a 70 Chevelle with a 454 cubic inch internal combustion engine with 500 ft/lbs of torque I am am happy .whatever 454 is in litres does not matter to me 3 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Someone was talking about fuel mileage in their new truck and thought that they were doing good at getting “9”. I said “ you effing hypocrite! You made fun of me driving my 79 because you thought it was a pig on fuel”. And then he said “ not 9 mpg, 9 litres per 100 km.” Metric is stupid. It was a liberal that forced Canada into it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just Dave Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Younger Machinists, than me anyway, picked up a habit of calling thousands of an inch mils it is some kinda bad when you start confusing precision measurement in inches with slang terms that sound metric. I must note that Machinists have been breaking down inches in base ten since way back. Go Chiefs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjf711 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 5 minutes ago, Farmall Doctor said: Someone was talking about fuel mileage in their new truck and thought that they were doing good at getting “9”. I said “ you effing hypocrite! You made fun of me driving my 79 because you thought it was a pig on fuel”. And then he said “ not 9 mpg, 9 litres per 100 km.” Metric is stupid. It was a liberal that forced Canada into it. Every single thing about the metric system is more intuitive and easier in calculation than si except for the fact that we have an experience and comfort level with si and habits are hard to break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsaIHCs Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 49 minutes ago, hillman said: doesn't make sense to me either 25k for a car? the K is 1000s not distance, so they should be putting 25k -km? or 25k-miles stupid I still use miles like Mike and you guys another one that drives me nuts it ft/lbs why are the kids calling it pound feet ? I guess it's a matter of perspective. I've always used ft./lb. As in 1 foot lever @x lb. pressure. I suppose pound feet would be 1 pound pressure on a lever of x feet. It's the same measurement. 1 foot lever with 20 pounds pressure is the same as 1 pound of pressure on a 20 foot lever. I see it both ways in service manuals. In my work most everything is listed in newton meters, which confuses the heck out of me. I have a general idea of how much torque 20 pounds on a 1 foot lever is but I have no concept of how much torque 20 newtons on a 1 meter lever is. Ft./lbs. just makes more sense to me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillman Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I just checked Snap On's torque wrenches. they list them as ft/lbs. I guess its what your used to. I have heard it ft/ibs a longtime The one that is the worst is the media reporting a murderer or the like as a " gentleman" Omg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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