Camshaft timing when the sprockets are ONE tooth off from straight up.
This is ironic…
It
does sound weird!
But it is 100% technically correct. From the
Machinery's Handbook
“A bolt is an externally threaded fastener designed for insertion through holes in assembled parts, and is normally intended to be tightened or released by torquing a nut. A screw is an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread, and of being tightened or released by torquing the head”
Of course, Ehrenberg is also the kind of person that would boost his own ego by unnecessarily correcting people for using common terminology, even in cases where using the technical terminology is confusing and weird. He would also tell people they were putting their lives in danger riding in cars with green bearings too, and of course he never let go of the BS he posted about FMJ spindle usage in his disk brake article. Oh, sorry, FMJ upright. Oh, wait, knuckle.
But that’s Ehrenberg for you. Good thing no one here just goes around correcting people for using common terminology that everyone understands. That would be exhausting!
I'll admit, I do agree with some of what you wrote. It is because of R.E. that I quit calling the part a
spindle and started calling it a
Knuckle.
It may be contradictory for me to state how strange that I think that some terms sound or feel but hey...That is life. The knuckle/spindle issue though comes down to common sense for me. The spindle is
part of the entire steering knuckle.
How about this.....Regarding the second month of the year, do you correctly pronounce it Feb-RUE-ary or Feb-Yoo-ary? The overwhelming majority of people that I have known and seen pronounce it wrong.
How about Wednesday? I've only known ONE person acknowledge the "D" in the word. Most people call it Wens-day.
I loved Rick's delivery and sense of humor. I didn't agree with everything he said or wrote...just like it is with everyone else in the world.
It isn't always a matter of boosting an ego when a correction is made. Sometimes it is a matter of someone growing tired of seeing something done wrong, like hearing an urban dweller use phrases like
Know wut I'm sayin? at the end of a sentence or hearing people say they
could care less that their employers don't offer
French benefits or that the
hot water heater suddenly quit working. Maybe it shouldn't be thought of as an insult but more of a somewhat impolite suggestion that one should try to be less ignorant of what is correct.
Sometimes it is just a matter of some specific thing that just
digs at you.
I think that many of us are pretty easygoing for the most part but at some point, we feel compelled to comment.
Again, it costs nothing to IGNORE the members here that you find intolerable.