what the heck is an imperial gallon?

[vash]

and who is still using this unit of volume? it gets me in all the owners manuals.

[Randy Webb]

I think that is the UK gallon -- they'd be imperial right?

It is equal to 1229.765 drams.



OK, 1.20095 "real" gallons.

[KobaltBlau]

yes, UK gallons. if you see 20 imperial MPG it's worse than 20 "regular" MPG.

[Paulporsche]

It was used up here in the great white north for a long time. Now the gas is measured in litres.

[tsuter]

Imperial gallon

In Great Britain, 1824–20th century, a unit of capacity, about 4.546092 liters, approximately 277.274 cubic inches. The unit was defined by Act 5 George IV c 74 1824 as the volume of 10 Avoirdupois pounds of water at 62°F.

Is this a trick question??

[john walker's workshop]

isn't 5 litres an imperial gallon in the land of labatt's?

[Purrybonker]

Here we go - another America-the-centre-of-the-universe-thread.

Man, you poor bastards really should try and get out a little more often - there's a big world out there and it ain't really that scary once you give it a try...

The US gallon is only used in the US - no where else in the world. Everywhere else in the world the gallon is the same imperial gallon that is part of the imperial measurement system that includes junk like feet and inches and miles and such.

But then, most of the world has evolved to that much more efficient system - the metric system. Some day the US will catch on to that too...

Then you can post on here...

WTF is this litre crap?

But in the meantime - your question would make more sense to about 99% of the population of the planet if you asked..

WTF is this US gallon crap and who in the world is still using it?

LOL, wink, wink...

[efhughes3]

It's what Darth Vader filled up his Death Star with.

[maxnine11]

John, an Imperial gallon of Labatt's equals 4.5 liters ( and a large headache ) A U.S. gallon equals 3.8 liters.

FWIW, an Imperial gallon = 1.2 US gallons.

[tsuter]

I thought he was gonna ask how much is 10 Avoirdupois pounds.

[JNadal]

Originally posted by Purrybonker
Here we go - another America-the-centre-of-the-universe-thread.

You mean America is the CENTER of the Universe


and

Originally posted by Purrybonker
WTF is this litre crap?

Yeah, what is a litre? In America we use LITERS



Not only do we have our own measurement system that we took from the Brits, we stole English from them and changed it too. haha

[jazzbass]

Originally posted by Purrybonker
Here we go - another America-the-centre-of-the-universe-thread.

Nice chip! Where'd you get it?

Originally posted by Purrybonker

But then, most of the world has evolved to that much more efficient system - the metric system. Some day the US will catch on to that too...

Yeah like the British, huh? Houses measured in sq feet, speed limits in miles/hour, and weights in stone.

I do think the US needs to go metric, if for not other reason than I could walk into Home Depot on a Saturday and buy a damn M6-1.00 bolt in any size, shape or material I wanted. Cheers!

[jazzbass]

Originally posted by JNadal
..we stole English from them and changed it too. haha

The funny part about that is the reason Amerian English is different than SRE is because we didn't change it, at least not that much. Most of the pronunciation in the US very similar to 18th English* spoken back when English in both places was the same. In the UK it changed, here it didn't.


* Western PA, New England and Upper Midwest not withstanding.

[autobonrun]

A few months ago, I was running into issues where my calculations were not matching my actual measurements. Since gallons is a volumetric unit, it is also related to temperature. As stated earlier, the imperial gallon is different than the US. This link gives a definition and some history. I won't even get into actual gallons versus standard gallons.

http://www.free-definition.com/Gallon.html

[jazzbass]

Personally, I try to avoid all confusion - US gallons, imperial gallons, etc. As long as my 911 gets 529 leagues/hoghead, thats all I care about.

[JNadal]

Originally posted by jazzbass
Personally, I try to avoid all confusion - US gallons, imperial gallons, etc. As long as my 911 gets 529 leagues/hoghead, thats all I care about.

Cheerio then good sir!

[kepperly]

OK< OK I don't mind useing metric wrenchs but screw the rest of the metric and old English crap. Its like how may rods long is it.
relax and drink a 12oz coors.

Keith Epperly 87 slant nose turbo look carrera cabriolet

[Zeke]

Last time I was in Canada, a can of oil (you see how long ago it was) was bigger than the quarts I still buy here. I'd never figure it out. I mean 9 qts. works just fine.

How many of those weird looking oil things does the rest of world use?

[Paulporsche]

Milt,

Back when I first moved here (from the states) a quart was still 1/4 of a gallon, albeit an imperial one. So the quart was 20% larger than an American one. Now everything is metric, so the oil comes in litre (as spelled here) containers.

One of the interesting things I have encountered here is in the construction industry. When Canada went metric, things like Tbar ceiling systems went metric, but drop in fluorescent fixtures did not, so there is a slight mismatch, which is corrected by a filler strip. There was also a discrepancy between steel doors and frames and concrete blocks.

I think I read somewhere that you are a carpenter. When the first drawings were being done in metric, architects and designers had to adjust to the new dimensioning system. The drawings then went to tradesmen, most of whom were from Europe, where the metric system was used, who had learned the Imperial system when they came here, and then had to convert the dimensions back to Imperial which was what they now were familiar with. It's a wonder anything gets done here.

It's still a lot easier to say 2by4 rather than 38 by 89.

[Yellowbird RS]

VOLUME CONVERSION
1 Gallons (US) equals 0.832674 Gallons (British)
chek this conversions for volume site:
http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/EASYvolume.html