The weight of a stone

[guest1726]

How much does a stone weigh what the hell is a quid?

[SteveC#222]

It's easy!
16 ounces = 1 pound

14 pounds ( proper UK ones ) = 1 stone

4 .. ...8 stones = 1 hundredweight

20 hundredweights = 1 ton

Easy! 

Now a quid is a British Pound ( no not the same as the one above) which is now worth only 100 pennies ( pence) but use to be worth 240 pennies unless it was a Guinea when it was worth 252.

12 pennies = 1 shilling ( also called a Bob) ( a 6 penny piece was called a Tanner a 2 shilling coin was called a 2 bob bit or Florin,
                                                                       2 shillings and 6 penny coin was a half Crown and 5 shilling coin was a Crown)

20 shillings = 1 (old) Pound (Quid)                ( we also had a 10 shilling (bob) note which led to the British saying of " Bent as a nine
                                                                         bob note" meaning something that isn't quite genuine  )

Unless it was a Guinea which was 21 shillings

it easy really.....

.....of course if you have 6 quid you have a poorly Cephalopod......

[themoudie]

Aye SteveC#222 and Svenster48,

And the 'Joey' = silver thrupenny bit worth 3d and used in Xmas puddings, or the later bronze thrupenny bit worth 3d and 12 sided in shape.

Farthing = Quarter of a penny (1/4d), with a 'Jenny' wren on it and a hapenny bit (1/2d), can't remember the name of the ship.

However, enough of my rambling, go and have a look at this site, it is very clear and with good images of the coins + all the language/slang etc. The National archive currency convertor link on the site really makes the eyes water      Pass me another sack of decimal dross! 

Pre-decimal_UK_currency

My regards, Bill.

[Steve Lake]

And of course...not forgetting the Florin, or two bob, which in old money was 24 pennies and in new money is 10 pence...which of course leads onto ..... the half a dollar (which has nowt to do with the horrible American unit of currency) .. better known as half a crown... or two and sixpence... 30 old pennies or.... as you young'uns have worked out by now... 12 & a half new pence....
pip pip

[Andy M]

And all are way easier to use for day to day tasks than metric because we can all visualise halves and thirds.

The trouble comes with calculated units. Lots of fiddle factors to look up when trying to calculate horse power , British thermal units etc.

The whole world uses imperial pipework BTW, they just hide the decimals after the mm number in the "metric" standards. DN25 is 25.4 or bang on the inch.

Andy

[SteveC#222]

I have to say I'm a little disappointed that no-one mentioned the Cephalopod......

[Propellor]

..............The whole world uses imperial pipework BTW, they just hide the decimals after the mm number in the "metric" standards. DN25 is 25.4 or bang on the inch.

Andy

Do the Germans still recognise the whitworth thread in DIN standards? More accurately the whitworth form. As in BSP. in their rohrgewinde.

The nominal bore pipe system is weird.

Do the hydraulics industry use a true metric system for pipe, or tube, and use the od as the datum rather than a "nominal" bore?

[wellesleyboy52]

Steve C#222,
     
                     just a small adjustment to your typing error,although 4 stones to a hundredweight

 would have been very profitable to the local coalman,he would have had to use the correct

 calculation of 8 stones to a hundredweight i.e 112pounds,to save himself from being tarred and

 feathered by the local housewives . By the way I like the Sick Squid definition of £6.

                                                                                                                      Cheers,Mel.

[SteveC#222]

Steve C#222,
     
                     just a small adjustment to your typing error,although 4 stones to a hundredweight

 would have been very profitable to the local coalman,he would have had to use the correct

 calculation of 8 stones to a hundredweight i.e 112pounds,to save himself from being tarred and

 feathered by the local housewives . By the way I like the Sick Squid definition of £6.                                                                                                                      Cheers,Mel.

Doh!.....ok ..ok....it was late...my brain is feeble and I'd had my Horlicks...at least thats my excuse....it was a looong time ago!

[guest1726]

Thank you for the replies. Very helpfull. Although I feel like a doughhead. I should have enough brains to know that a quid is a sea creature.Duh

 

[Andy M]

..............The whole world uses imperial pipework BTW, they just hide the decimals after the mm number in the "metric" standards. DN25 is 25.4 or bang on the inch.

Andy

Do the Germans still recognise the whitworth thread in DIN standards? More accurately the whitworth form. As in BSP. in their rohrgewinde.

The nominal bore pipe system is weird.

Do the hydraulics industry use a true metric system for pipe, or tube, and use the od as the datum rather than a "nominal" bore?

They have a DIN standard for it but I've never seen it used. The worst thing with Germany is that the likes of BASF get stupid on measuring. If they say 10mm and you don't counter with DN10 (actually 3/8 inch) they get silly over the fractions and you end up making ********ised fittings. Real metric pipes and fittings were drawn up.

I've never really done hydraulics in that detail. I think like everyone one else they could label the common sizes A-Z and stop pretending the numbers relate the ones on the package to the ones on the vernier.

Andy

[Propellor]

..............The whole world uses imperial pipework BTW, they just hide the decimals after the mm number in the "metric" standards. DN25 is 25.4 or bang on the inch.

Andy

Do the Germans still recognise the whitworth thread in DIN standards? More accurately the whitworth form. As in BSP. in their rohrgewinde.

The nominal bore pipe system is weird.

Do the hydraulics industry use a true metric system for pipe, or tube, and use the od as the datum rather than a "nominal" bore?

They have a DIN standard for it but I've never seen it used. The worst thing with Germany is that the likes of BASF get stupid on measuring. If they say 10mm and you don't counter with DN10 (actually 3/8 inch) they get silly over the fractions and you end up making ********ised fittings. Real metric pipes and fittings were drawn up.

I've never really done hydraulics in that detail. I think like everyone one else they could label the common sizes A-Z and stop pretending the numbers relate the ones on the package to the ones on the vernier.

Andy

I'm going from memory (risky!), back to the late 80's/early90's when I worked for a German gearbox company. The whitworth thread cropped up a few times in their rohrgewinde (pipe thread), but confusingly it referred to BSP threads. They use the term "whitworth" as defining the thread form, ie 55deg.

It would crop up in things such as tappings for oil sight glasses or drain plugs etc. Strange but true!

[Oldtimer]

And of course...not forgetting the Florin, or two bob, which in old money was 24 pennies and in new money is 10 pence...which of course leads onto ..... the half a dollar (which has nowt to do with the horrible American unit of currency) .. better known as half a crown... or two and sixpence... 30 old pennies or.... as you young'uns have worked out by now... 12 & a half new pence....
pip pip
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Not forgetting the silver threepenny piece was a threepenny "Joey" and a 4d piece was a "Wagon wheel" because of it's size