jazz4cash
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i often wonder about standardization.
today as i drove down the road, i wondered about semi's...18 wheelers. I looked at the lines connecting the trailer of a big-rig to the truck itself, and saw the big plugs on both ends....I wonder if they (the plugs) are all the same from one truck to the next? If not, what would you do if you had to haul a trailer with incompatible lines (i suppose they are brake lights and compressed air for brakes)? If they ARE all the same, WHO invented them? Do they make money every time a plug is made with that particular connector?
Then i looked at their mudflaps (funny ones) and wondered the same kind of thing... "are those standard18-wheeler mudflaps? or are they made specifically to mount to a 1998 Peterbuilt blah blah" if theres a standard mounting bracket or configuration for mudflaps...how'd that become so?
wierd stuff like this goes thru my head a lot. i must be special
Dang You! I nearly wrecked today while trying to inspect the mud flaps on several big rigs I passed on the road today! I worked as a powertrain engineer for many years, but never gave much thought to the doggone mudflaps other than making sure they were present.
I realized a typical example of our mixed up measurement system is the tire system we use that is a combination of metric/ non-dimensional and english units. The tire width is millimeters, the tire section height (profile) is percent and the rim diameter is inches, i.e. 225/60-15