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To: elmatador who wrote (47921)	4/3/2004 3:35:46 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi elmat, I can always tell a naive or phony writer when they get the engineering vernacular wrong. In this article, the scribbler kept referring to "reinforced bars", digging a deeper and deeper hole of humiliation for himself as he went along. The term of art is "reinforcing bar". The concept is that the steel bar (or rod to speak more precisely) is specified to reinforce concrete against tension and shear forces in "reinforced concrete structures". *** Other than that, it's good to see that the steel market may be returning to more normal conditions.

To: elmatador who wrote (47921)	4/4/2004 1:24:00 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

Rebar is a lot easier to make and requires much less capital to make than almost any other steel product I can think of. I think this just means there are too many rebar plants. The % of rebar in total steel production seems way high. Maybe they should pack up the rebar equipment and send it to either western China or India, and use the money to help buy a more advanced plant to make sheet or structual. Full points to the central bankers on this one. Ray - another souce of weird terminology is the spell check programs...which will automatically subsitute words well after the the writer has turned in copy. I'm waiting for the dateline that starts out from Lagos, Afro-American