What is a click?
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What is a click?
I was never in the Armed Forces
I just missed the draft by a few #'s
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I would venture to say ,something to do with setting elvations on guns that refers to a distance! maybe?
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I just missed the draft by a few #'s
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I would venture to say ,something to do with setting elvations on guns that refers to a distance! maybe?
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What is a click?
Time to confess !
Us Canucks use the term clik's all the time when we are talking distance away from something. Clik = Kilometre
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Us Canucks use the term clik's all the time when we are talking distance away from something. Clik = Kilometre
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What is a click?
The "click" is a more accurate means of measuring for the military, especially for the artillery. It's the metric system, so it's it smaller increments based on tens. The other poster was correct, a click=1000 meters. The compass is also graduated into 6400 mils instead of 360 degrees, allowing for a much finer adjustment of arty, naval gunfire, etc. FOI, a mile is about "a click and a half." We used to have one "pace man" in the squad tie a knot in a string every hundred paces and we could accurately tell how far we had walked, even over rough terrain where a map was useless. This is a great aid in the jungle where you can't see anything. Surprising how accurate you can get using this method.
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What is a click?
For those reading this who aren't familiar with the metric system, I just wanted to clarify that a kilometer and 1000 meters are exactly the same thing - so we all agree, even if we don't say the same thing. 
Unfortunately, I'm now forced to use the metric system every day - as Ford and the other automakers are using millimeters for everything. However, I'm not a total convert yet - whenever I'm discussing components with the other engineers, I still use inches and thousandths of an inch. Maybe in another 10 years or so I'll start doing my guesstimates with the metric system, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Unfortunately, I'm now forced to use the metric system every day - as Ford and the other automakers are using millimeters for everything. However, I'm not a total convert yet - whenever I'm discussing components with the other engineers, I still use inches and thousandths of an inch. Maybe in another 10 years or so I'll start doing my guesstimates with the metric system, but it hasn't happened yet.
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What is a click?
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 31-May-02 AT 11:57 AM (EST)]Great! so a kilometer is a "click"
Now lets get the infinitely wise people who do such things to make a unit of time called the "tick" (not the thing that sucks your blood).
This "tick" could be a short time, like there would be one thousand ticks in a kilotick, and maybe 100 kiloticks in a day.
Now the days, weeks, years, etc are a little more difficult to metricize. Guess we would be stuck with 28-31 days a month and 365 1/4 days per year unless we could control the earth's rotation and revolution.
Some things just aren't meant to be standardized.
One more thing -- why do metric sockets require English (or standard) ratchets? Why not have a metric ratchet, extensions to make the metrics complete, instead of hybrid? Does any country have such tools? It would be much easier to tell if a socket is metric or standard if the ratchet hole was a different size.
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Now lets get the infinitely wise people who do such things to make a unit of time called the "tick" (not the thing that sucks your blood).
This "tick" could be a short time, like there would be one thousand ticks in a kilotick, and maybe 100 kiloticks in a day.
Now the days, weeks, years, etc are a little more difficult to metricize. Guess we would be stuck with 28-31 days a month and 365 1/4 days per year unless we could control the earth's rotation and revolution.
Some things just aren't meant to be standardized.
One more thing -- why do metric sockets require English (or standard) ratchets? Why not have a metric ratchet, extensions to make the metrics complete, instead of hybrid? Does any country have such tools? It would be much easier to tell if a socket is metric or standard if the ratchet hole was a different size.
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What is a click?
We got stuck with the short month of February because the Romans were superstitious and thought February a bad month; hence the emperor made it shorter. Now we can't change it because some people would squak if their birthday (actually birth anniversary--to be peskily techincal) got shifted. I don't care when my birthday is celebrated so long as I get my money!
Anybody know what the socket drive size is in Canada? Europe?
Anybody know what the socket drive size is in Canada? Europe?
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What is a click?
1/4" - 3/8" - 1/2" - 3/4" (maybe even 1") drives in Canada
About a metric drives,Please DON'T give them any ideas.
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What is a click?
>1/4" - 3/8" - 1/2" - 3/4" (maybe even 1") drives in Canada
>
>About a metric drives,Please DON'T give them any ideas.
>
Aw Dennis, where is your sense of adventure
dj
>
>About a metric drives,Please DON'T give them any ideas.
>
Aw Dennis, where is your sense of adventure
dj
