[Shop-talk] Quick question on garage floors and garage lifts

[Karl Vacek]

John, John, John - That's Purdue - as in one of the foremost engineering 
schools in the country and alma mater to at least two of us list members.


This might be what you meant:

http://rebar.ecn.purdue.edu/wwr/Design%20Resources/sheetnomenclature.aspx



> Jim
> according to www.rebar.ecn.purude.edu/wwr
>
> 6x6 is the spacing of the wire
> W designates smooth wire not deformed wire
> 1.4 is the cross sectional area of the wire in hundredths of an square 
> inch
>
> a concrete man would just say 6x6 wire mesh and let her go
>
> john