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00:00 - Is there a way to convert degrees, minutes and seconds so I can transfer to this method? Yeah so what Mario's talking about there is doing your toe in terms of an angle rather than a measurement and again let me just jump over and do a quick definition of that, what Mario's talking about there.
00:15 If we're looking from overhead and let's say this is our string line here and this is our tyre and we're measuring our toe, I've got this exaggerated quite a lot.
00:24 If we're going to measure at the front of the tyre, measure at the rear of the tyre, say this is the front of the car here, obviously we've got toe out, that means we're going to measure a smaller distance at the front and a larger distance at the rear.
00:33 And what Mario's asking there is, I've got a linear distance which is definitely the convention when we're talking in motorsport terms just because of its convenience.
00:40 But in the OEM world of road cars, people often talk in terms of degrees, millimetres and seconds as in an angle so you can just convert that really simple using a little bit of Pythagoras there.
00:52 If you know the radius of the wheel and you know the difference, so the difference between in this case these different ruler measurements you've got here, this becomes this distance here and then you can use the radius of the wheel on the other part of that triangle there and you can just solve for the angle using sine, cosine, tangent, all these basic mathematical principles, you can easily convert between those, really really simple.
01:16 And if you do join up as a member, I'm happy to dig into that question in more detail and maybe give you a bit more detail so we can help you through working that out but I'm pretty sure, pretty confident you'll be able to work that out just using some basic school maths with that one there.
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