Thread: Serious Question

If you could swing a hammer with as much speed as a nail gun and if the hammer head was as small as the nail, youd be in business. The nail gun pushes the nail thru in one punch you need 3 or four with a hammer. More time to bend. The nail is in the magazine until the head pops through so it stays straight unless the point hits something hard like concrete.
Brad nails are obvioulsy not meant to be hammer driven so if you need to hand nail small nail then get bullet heqads.
stef

I have had them bend out of a gun when I've found a knot or something.
I can also bend a 6" nail with a hammer, put it down to years of inexperience.

I thought they were all supposed to bend with a hammer? You use the first few to make the hole then bang a straight one in at the end?

Hmmm thats what I thought too Benny!

Originally Posted by bennylaird

I thought they were all supposed to bend with a hammer? You use the first few to make the hole then bang a straight one in at the end?

Then you give the first few to the kids to 'straighten' out worked for my uncle anyway

At the risk of being boring I would expect that a large part of the reason is that the gun hits dead in line with the axis, the impact face is square to the head of the brad and,as stef said, it hits once.
It can be done with a hammer but the error margin is humoungous by comparison
Cheers
HarcX

Originally Posted by bennylaird

I thought they were all supposed to bend with a hammer? You use the first few to make the hole then bang a straight one in at the end?

That's why they put a claw on the other side of the head to the banging bit, isn't it?? If you weren't meant to pull the bent ones out, it wouldn't be there.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer!
Cheers,
Graeme

Simple reason.....a hand held hammer rarely hits it's target square on...there's nearly always a sideways component to the blow.

For asking a serious question, you have to do 3 hail Marys, and 16 Our Fathers.
What ever TF that means.

Al