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I'm pretty sure, in the USA at least, whitewood is just ungraded hem-fir and SPF, not poplar. There's a joke that an ungraded bolt is guaranteed to catch a mag
by eropple 3y ago
I'm pretty sure, in the USA at least, whitewood is just ungraded hem-fir and SPF, not poplar.
There's a joke that an ungraded bolt is guaranteed to catch a magnet and sink to the bottom of a bathtub. "Whitewood" is that, but wood.
- vGPU 3y agoAny chance you could translate that joke into HN-speak?
- jstanley 3y agoI think it means it's not guaranteed to do anything more than be magnetic and denser than water, but I also thought the wording was confusing.
- usrusr 3y agoThanks, worth the explanation! Would have been self-explanatory with something like "little more that" added, but having it right in there would ruin the joke, as integrated explanations tend to.
- eropple 3y agohttps://www.aftfasteners.com/grades-of-bolts-bolt-grade-markings-bolt-strength-chart/ https://www.aftfasteners.com/grades-of-bolts-bolt-grade-mark... Think of all the things this chart promises. Then assume none of them.
- jacquesm 3y agoThat's hilarious. I wouldn't been too confident about the magnetic properties though... ;)
- eropple 3y agoYou'd think, but iron is really cheap. :D