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To reduce speed in smaller increments, pull the DRCC lever back to cancel then as the speed drops off, when you get to your required speed, push the lever down to set the new speed. To increase speed, cancel, accelerate, then re-set.
I also do this to set the speed 10% above the limit to allow for the 10% speedo error we suffer here in the UK. E.g. entering a 30 mph zone from say a 40, press cancel, let speed drop to 33 then press set.
Usually there's about a 1 mph delay between the speed reading and the setting, so I press set at 34 mph and it sets the DRCC to 33.

 

Me too. That's what I meant at #31.

 

The Imperial Gallon is the size of a Galleon, huh?

 

Aarrr, it be laaarrge lad.

 

Ten 16 ounce pints. Or five quarts. Those ounces are a little different, avoirdupois?

Oy, my brain is full...

 

Avoirdupois, a pound = 16 ounces or 7,000 grains, 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton.
What a mess

 

.. and 14lbs (pounds) = 1 stone, 28lbs = 1 quarter, four quarters = 1cwt (hundredweight), yawn

 

Are you trying to out-confuse the Americans here?
Rube Goldberg, is that you?

 

I remember listening to a couple of Brits on a bus, discussing prices in the old currency: no idea how they keep it straight. They warm up by scoring darts methinks.

 

I have an old friend - grew up on a farm I think - who would throw "furlongs" and "chains" into conversations. Just confused most people - though we'd eventually get the drift after knowing him for a few months. I haven't seen him for 10 yrs, but I suspect he never did convert to metric.

 

Oh no! Now you've started me....
.. there's rods, poles and perches
... 2 gills to a pint
..... acres Zzzzzzz