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26th October 2005, 03:02 AM #1
Serious Question
Gday all,
If i was to hit a brad with a hammer, it would bend as it doesnt have a lot of strength, like wire i reckon.
How come it doesnt go skew if out of a gun, but drives pretty cleanly, with no need for punching.
A bit hard to explain.
Simply curious, perhaps someone can tell me in laymans terms.
Cheers
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26th October 2005, 07:09 AM #2Senior Member
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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
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26th October 2005, 07:24 AM #3
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.Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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26th October 2005, 08:16 AM #4
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?
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26th October 2005, 08:27 AM #5
Hmmm thats what I thought too Benny!
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Originally Posted by bennylaird
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26th October 2005, 03:55 PM #7harcx
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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
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26th October 2005, 10:08 PM #8Originally Posted by bennylaird
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer!
Cheers,
Graeme
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26th October 2005, 11:05 PM #9
Simple reason.....a hand held hammer rarely hits it's target square on...there's nearly always a sideways component to the blow.
Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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