"Van Chocstraw" wrote in message
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Worn Out Retread wrote:
I am looking for a new snow blower and have discovered that the power
rating of the engines are no longer in "Horse Power" but in "Foot Pounds"
if given at all. Sometimes all that is given is the CC's of the engine.

Even the people selling these machines don't know what the "Horse Power"
ratings are so that old geezers like myself can understand what is going
on. Does anyone have any general rules regarding the conversion of Foot
Pounds or CC's to Horse Power?


They are just trying to pull one over on us by frigging up standard
ratings in the US.
CC's equate more to Cubic Inches. Foot pounds equate to horsepower.
Multiply horsepower by 33,000 to get foot pounds.
It's just another crooked business tactic to screw you over.

See the chart: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/S...53/convert.htm

Thanks for the link. I have used it before but the formula that they gave
had me somewhat baffled what is 10 over score 7? Is it 10 to the power of 7,
10 to the power of 1/7, 10 divided by 7? No explanation is given and I have
not ever seen that way of writing a formula.
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Ron