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Subject:Re: PSI and Bars, for tire pressure
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:05:02 -0800

I don’t know, I was thinking one and other came up.  Glad it wasn’t another “ped” prefix word :-)

Ab

> On Feb 10, 2020, at 7:56 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Pendant or pedant, or autocorrect?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Mobile
> 
>> On Feb 10, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> 
>> Yup, and the pendant in me has to point out one bar is 14.7, not 14.1 psi.
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Alistair
>> 
>>>> On Feb 10, 2020, at 6:19 PM, KIM BRENNAN <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Fwiw, outside the USA they use millibars when talking about air pressure, like in weather forecasts insteads of the inches (of mercury) used in US public broadcasts.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 10, 2020, at 19:10, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I wondered how long it would take for this thread to degrade! 
>>>> 
>>>> But I now am able to ask Alexa for conversions and I’m figuring it out pretty easily.  At this point even if it gets stuck on bars I’ll have a pretty good idea if I’m close to the desired PSI. 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks folks. 
>>>> 
>>>> Eric Caron 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 10, 2020, at 7:06 PM, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> the Europeans use Bar instead of PSI...
>>>>> here's a joke on the other side of the pond...
>>>>> 
>>>>> - how many bars you have?
>>>>> - 4
>>>>> - 4 bars?.. and how many drinks?
>>>>> :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 2:32 PM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net <mailto:ericcaron96@comcast.net>> wrote:
>>>>> I just received a replacement talking tire pressure gage.  On one setting it read 37.5 PSI
>>>>> On another setting it read 2.5 Bars. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Not sure how to Google this question so I’m asking 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What are bars and how do they relate to tire pressure. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Eric Caron