Question of the week 04/17/16

NAIL IT !

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QUESTION**

Nails are an integral part of home building and come in many shapes and sizes. History dates nails back over 3500 years with bronze nails being the first produced and used for construction prior to that joinery, rope, hide and wooden pegs were common ways of securing timber for buildings.

The following statements are true or false.

  1. A blunt nail will split wood more often than a tapered point nail?

  2. A cut nail has about 4 times the holding power of a round nail?

  3. Common nails lose half their holding power after a few days but get some back after a month?

  4. Nails have been made with bronze, brass, copper, iron, steel, aluminum, plastic and even corn starch?

Answers please and whoever nails it wins :mrgreen:.

  1. F
  2. T
  3. T
  4. F

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David has it!

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The correct answers are

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True
True
True

Les is correct!

Congratulations Les :stuck_out_tongue:

Great job Les!

  1. Old carpenters trick is to blunt a nail by hitting the point for less chance of wood splitting.

  2. Cut nails do have about 4X the holding power of round nails.

  3. Common nails do lose 1/2 their holding power within a few days of being driven, they get some back in about a month when the wood fibers start to grab.

  4. In surgery nails made from corn starch or tapioca are used to hold bones together, they eventually dissolve and are absorbed safely into the body.

Very interesting I am sure many learned from this and other Questions of the week well done Paul.

GJ Les, nice questions Paul

Thanks.

Coming up with questions for this group of professionals has been challenging.

Good questions Paul and congrats to Les for the correct answers. :slight_smile: