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The Little Big Inch used both 5 ⁄ 16 inch (7.9 mm) thick seamless steel and electric weld pipe, and a small amount of 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) thick seamless pipe. [34] In total, 21,185 railcar loads of steel piping were laid during the project, the Big Inch alone requiring 360,700 short tons (327,200 t) of steel. [35]
Eight complete equipments are reported as arriving in August 1916 and being in action in France shortly afterwards. It was similar but unrelated to the BL 12-inch railway howitzers Mk I, III and V produced by the Elswick Ordnance Company at the same time. The Mk IV was a more powerful version with longer barrel produced from 1917.
14 November 2011. ( 2011-11-14) –. present. Salvage Hunters is a British television programme in which decorative salvage dealer Drew Pritchard travels throughout the country in search of antiques from shops, fairs and old mansions to re-sell online or in his shop. The programme has aired on Quest since 2011, for 17 series.
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12 ft. Metric ( SI) units. 25.4 mm. A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to 1 36 yard or 1 12 of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to ...
Copper fittings for soldered joints. Pipe fittings: 1) Copper (solder); 2) Iron or brass (threaded); 3) Brass (compression); 4) Brass (compression to solder); 5) Brass adapters. PVC fittings. A fitting or adapter is used in pipe systems to connect sections of pipe (designated by nominal size, with greater tolerances of variance) or tube ...
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" (mille ...
Ballistics by the Inch (often called BBTI) was a project to test the performance characteristics of a variety of common handgun calibers/cartridges. The initial testing was done in 2008 and tested the velocity of 13 common handgun cartridges as it related to firearm barrel length. In 2009 an additional three calibers were tested and in 2010 and ...