Re: misc.metric-system

"Ed Huntress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Tom Cular" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Sometimes it's better to be silent and be thought of as a fool, rather
> than
> > open your mouth and confirm the fact.
>
> Whoops. I'm getting my dry measures mixed up with liquid measures. Dry
> measure, a US quart equals 1.01 liters. Liquid measure, a US quart
> equals ).9463 liters.
>
> However, an Imperial quart...<g>
>
> Ed Huntress
>
Just got back from working on my watering/spraying machines out west.  The
customer mentioned that they have never gotten the expected results from any
of the various pesticides they've been using.  They were hoping my machine
would solve the problem.  In order for them to use the machine I had to look
at all the various chemicals and how they were to be applied, and how that
would relate to the way the machine will do it.  What an eye opener that
was!  Only one or two of the twenty chemical companies saw fit to indicate
whether their unit of measure was ounces weight or ounces volume when the
chemical was a powder.  Most of them were powders, most of the ounces were
weight, and the customer didn't own a scale!  They also provided no
application rate, say gallons per acre, but only mixing ratio, one ounce per
hundred gallons.  The good news is that the machine may drastically reduce
the amount of chemicals used through extremely accurate coverage.  The bad
news is that these guys are using WAY to much really dangerous chemicals,
and it still doesn't work because the concentration is wrong.  Of course I'm
no help, I'm out of business and won't be selling any more machines.

Gary H. Lucas