miscellany

[richard welty <mit-eddie!lewis.crd.ge.com!welty@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>]

    Sizes named by diameter of shaft:
    SAE (some acronoym about american "standards", which lists the various 
systems
    of pitch, hardness, etc.)


hmmm.  SAE stands for `Society of Automotive Engineers', the
society which promulgates standards in the US.  i'd imagine that
SAE fasteners are those which follow SAE Standards.

-- richard