Thread: What size nut goes onto a typical US passenger tire Schrader valve?
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Default What size nut goes onto a typical US passenger tire Schrader valve?
wrote on Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:19:22 -0500:

A TONNE is a metric ton, or a "long ton" - 1000 Kg or 2200 lbs.

Thanks. I didn't know that. It never occurred to me to look.

So I will remember that by thinking that a tonne is "longer" than a ton by
two characters, or 200 pounds!
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