Lee Loader

Hi, folks,

I just wondered what the difference between the different colored dippers was. I know that the recent ones are yellow, but what are the others, what has changed?

I heard the red ones measure in cubic inches and the new yellow are in CCs.

62chevy wrote:I heard the red ones measure in cubic inches and the new yellow are in CCs.

Yes, that is correct. There was black also and they where in cubic inches as well.

CC would be Cubic Centimeters? Well, at last a unit that I can work with .

It's so crazy, that you still stick with the imperial system... I mean REALLY?!? And your pound is even based on the kilo anyway :twisted: :p

Anyway, thanks for the info!

You find the imperial system confusing and I find the metric system confusing. Numbers are numbers and all look the same so it's easy to know if you have the chart which dipper to use. But then the only thing I use the dippers for is to take a scoop and put it on the scale to weight.

Imperial good, metric bad!

I suppose it is what you are brought up with, here in the UK we are supposed to have converted to "Napoleons revenge" because of that damned unrepresentative bureaucracy the EEC.

All I know from changing to metric, including when we decimalised our currency in 1972, is that it is just an excuse for things to cost more. Also it leads to confusion and makes me feel more of a stranger in my own land as the poor generations coming up now know no better than metric so we are more alienated as they don't know what I'm talking about in weights and measures and I don't know what they are meaning either. Metric is indeed an evil and divisive thing

I still use Imperial and will only buy from shops that will supply me in Imperial units.

Needless to say I use the red dipper set as a matter of principle even though a volume is a volume no matter how you record it.

Quick (no calculator, no looking up, please answer within three seconds):

How many inches in 1.36 miles?


You already are "metricalized". All imperial units have been changed to base on metric units. Fractional notation is getting less and less, in engineering it has vanished decades ago. Metric notation is way easier to learn and handle, especially in science, where you have very small and very large numbers.

Of course you can still use imperial units as you please, but nevertheless they are dying for a reason.

Even if I'm German, I am able to handle yards, feet, and inches, ounzes and grains. But for someone learning to use a system, imperial is very difficult. Even the multipliers are different from step to step.

1.36, what is that then?

The problem with the metric system is nomenclature, it doesn't make any sense.

What do you mean? It's not based on body parts any more, and so the name don't refer to them. But it's just names. Imperial also use the second, but what sense does that name really make?