Yanked from /. but worth spreading around.

[wolfwings]

What would you say if I told you that simply changing from 'plain' nails to well-engineered, super-modern design nails of the same physical size and able to be used in existing nailguns would single-handedly triple the strength of a wooden structure, so that the type and strength of wood becomes the limiting factor?

Behold the HurriQuake 2 nail.

This makes nails comperable to bolts and screws for useful holding strength in wooden structures. =^.^= Note it doesn't have the absolute gripping of Bolts, obviously, but it tends to make the strength of the wood the failure point, not the nail failing. :-)

Comments

Re: Well...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, normaly a person does not want to take their house apart, but I used to build things like snake cages, rabbit cages, rat cages and the like. Sometimes I reused the wood, or just wanted to be able to take something apart to get rid of it without having to take it to the dump.

I also made a partition for my porch, so I could turn part of it into a turtle area. It was fun, I had grass turf and lots of plants. It was like a tiny jungle. My turtle does just fine now with run of the house and porch, but sometimes hides and it is hard to find her. Once in a while I find her on her back but that happened before too.

I never used a nail gun, and I am not sure how the threads can be used if it is going to be shot into the wood, but I am sure they figured it out.

Now the house I am in, that they are trying to sell, is on a deck block foundation, and if God forbid there was a big earthquake, I expect it to hop right off of the blocks and the blocks to come up through the plywood floor, and the house to just crumble. No matter what the fasteners. But hey, if I had a house built those nails sound really cool.