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I had to mend a fence that was blown down in a storm just before Christmas, and needed some nails. I had to ask for help from an assistant in the hardware store
by onion2k 5y ago
I had to mend a fence that was blown down in a storm just before Christmas, and needed some nails. I had to ask for help from an assistant in the hardware store just because there were so many different kinds. Nail manufacturers have not stopped innovating. I ended up buying "annular ring nails" that have ridges all the way down the shaft so they hold better.
Holding bits of wood together is a weirdly interesting area of tech.
- pfdietz 5y agoHurriQuake nails got a lot of press back in the 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HurriQuake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HurriQuake
- ianbicking 5y agoFrustratingly that article says after introduction in ~2004, the nails were discontinued in 2011, but it doesn't say why. This Quora answer says more though: https://www.quora.com/Why-were-HurriQuake-nails-discontinued https://www.quora.com/Why-were-HurriQuake-nails-discontinued I guess the answer is that ring shank nails are less finicky and almost as good