Hair splitting for AnthonyG?

[tomcarman]

Originally Posted by GB SISSON

As a young 'back to the land-er' I once lost a nice old wood cookstove off of a flatbed truck. Was just going a mile or so and keeping it under 30, so hadn't secured it very well. That's when I learned the difference between iron and steel! The two wood stoves I have today are made from 1/4" steel plate and angle iron, I mean angle steel.

Not to split another hair but the structural engineer asked me to change the spec from "angle iron" to "angled steel". On the lag issue I had one engineer who wanted my specification changed from "Lag Bolt" to "Lag Screw". All my life I'd known them as lag bolts but after thinking about by golly it is a screw! Then I spec'd "Lag Screw" on another set of drawings that were sent to a different engineer. Wouldn't you know he had me change the spec to "Lag Bolt". Go figure! I'm still wondering why they're called a "machine screw" though.