I was just searching the PHP web site looking for a tire size chart or an equation that bill uses to calculate tire size factoring in the squish factor. (with no success) My edge manual has an equation this but does not account for squish.

I now have 3 tire sizes to calculate.
255/70/17
265/70/17
295/70/17

help anyone?...
Bill or Cory feel fee to chime in.
thanks.

 

It's part of Pegasus under Calculators.

 

Ah, Corey, you're being "cryptic"!

Here's what you want: Got to this webpage: http://dygytalworld.ehost-services13...Downloads.html and download a utility called "Gear Ratio Calc". Install that.

Then when you open the application, you'll see it allows you to put in old tire sizes, new sizes and so on. You wou't need all that. Hover your mouse over any of the entry windows and you'll see the format you need to enter. Just use the first box to enter your tire information. Immediately, you'll see your tire circumference and revs per mile on the first row calculated with a 5% squish. Go down to the squish box and change it to the factor you want. The new numbers appear on the first row!

Pretty slick application Bill wrote, I think! I've checked it against a hand calculation, and, of course, it's dead on!

- Jack

 

Sorry... kind of frustrated after spending hours working on the new custom order form just to have Adobe corrupt it... Thanks for clearing things up, Jack. I can always count on you!

 

Thank You for spelling it out for me.
I am downloading it now.

 

Corey - I "feel your pain"! Computers are SUCH fun, aren't they? But, I was glad to help. I do think that is a pretty slick utility Bill created and it needs to be known better.

Of course it does more than just calculate tire circumference, but that's for another time, right?

Good luck with the order form. Hope you get it done in time to get a good night's sleep.

- Jack

 

Okay, so how screwed up is THIS?!? I worked for several hours again today on the new custom order form. This time, I saved it sporadically under two different file names, so when one of them crapped out, I still had the other one. I called Adobe to see what their customer support had to say. I purchased an upgrade to Adobe Professional 8 in April, but 9 has been released. To even TALK to me, they charged me $39 since my version is not the current one. And what was her solution? Re-install the program. Un-freakin'-believable.

 

Ouch! That is NOT good customer support!

I just did a fairly fast search for an alternate program to create "editable .pdf" files and haven't found anything. I HAVE found several programs, some of thiem freeware that can create ordinary .pdf files.

I don't know the mechanics of this, but is it possible you could create an "ordinary .pdf" file, save it, and then go back and convert sections of it to be editable, saving after each conversion? Sometimes, if the document gets too complicated (large) due to changes and other properties, it causes problems.

I had this problem trying to convert a VERY large file to .pdf. I could do it in sections, but not as a "whole".

Maybe you could produce two "smaller" order forms instead of one large one that works for both diesel and gasoline. Maybe Acrobat would behave itself then.

I'm just thinking out loud here Corey. My thoughts can easily be worth exactly what you are paying for them!

- Jack