UPDATE:

First of all, i do enough ass kissing trying to get jobs from contractors who think they are better than me...the SUB contractor...so no - not kissing inspector ass.

We called the guy's supervisor who met me at the job and performed the inspection himself. He pointed out that the other guy was obviously being very particular and that in the future if we disagree with the inspector to call him beofre calling it in for a reinspect.

Bottom line, the supervisor passed it off and I FINALLY got out an invoice for the final...

Hey, regardless, thanks for all the help. Until I posted this question I did not fully understand the bend radius thang, so thank you Redsy for the truly well defined explanation and thank you all for your support (no - I am not related to Bartles and/or James).