How do you translate "Gangnail"?

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Hi,

I am currently translating Kenton Shepard’s “A Garage Inspection” and I can’t find the translation for Gangnail.
All I know is that a gangnail is a particular arrangement of nails on a metal plate, used as a connecting piece in strong timber joints.

If anyone knows the name in french could you please tell me?

Thanks

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Janet, I think it is spelled this way;

Gang-nail connection= la bande qui cloue

Metal gang-nail connection= la connexion métallique de bande-clou

Gang-nail= bande-clou

Better wait for our friend from Quebec. My french is slang. :slight_smile:

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Thank you! This is very helpful!

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Connecteurs métalliques cloués is my guess.

5

That sounds better. :slight_smile:

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It’s a trademark.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/vwTrdmrk.do;jsessionid=0001d5Yxa70pzeqA9Ur59cDlBMH:PB8SNME11?lang=eng&status=OK&fileNumber=0328516&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1

Shouldn’t it just be - Gang-nail?

What would you translate for Kleenex?

7

My Kleenex box reads Kleenex marque mouchoirs,

so Gang-Nail connecteurs métalliques:wink:

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Thanks, Marcel

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Thank you! I will write Gang-nail (connecteurs métalliques), I think it will work!