Questions of the week of 01/29/17

I don’t communicate with Internachi but I’ll see if I can rattle the cage a little.

No promises.

Roy and Marcel.

I just emailed April April Ware april@internachi.org
Mention the books.

Email her and send her your address.**

UPDATE: April contacted me, send her your addresses.**

A big “THANK YOU” to Paul for all his hard work benefiting the members here! :smiley:

Good questions Paul.

What is a pinned 16 gauge metal plate?

Congrats Roy.

It is a gusset plate.

I figured that much Roy, but what kind…a standard 20 gauge punched truss plate with teeth? To me, that would not be a “pinned” gusset plate. Pinned infers bolted or through-riveted heavy gauge plates. Just curious, because I think that threw a few people off.

Well, through me off too Brad.
I think that is the objective to through people off. :wink:

Paul does a lot of research on these questions and does one hell of a job putting them out and throw even old timers like us off the rail at times. :mrgreen:

Keep up the good work Paul, well done.

It does get us to research this stuff, which is the point I presume.

Happy Birthday Marcel :smiley:

Its just a regular gusset plate with the punched pointed ends. Referred to as pinned plates in a couple of my sources as I guess they have no other fasteners and not nailed or bolted, just pinned.

Cannot be pounded in, just pressed into place.

Thanks to all for asking and yes I do a lot of fact-checking and with Google being so quick I try to stay within acceptable limits without be obviously misleading.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.

Excellent effort, Paul. Congrats!!

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Thanks Gilles

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