Usage
Types of nail include:
- brads
- floor brad (aka 'stigs') - flat, tapered and angular, for use in fixing floor boards
- oval brad - Ovals utilize the principles of fracture mechanics to allow nailing without splitting. Highly anisotropic materials like regular wood (as opposed to wood composites) can easily be wedged apart. Use of an oval perpendicular to the wood's grain cuts the wood fibers rather than wedges tham apart, and thus allows fastening without splitting, even close to edges.
- brass tack - Brass Tacks are commonly used where corrosion may be an issue, such as furniture where contact with human skin salts will cause corrosion on steel nails.
- bullet head nail
- canoe tack
- carpet tack
- casing - Casing nails have a head that is smoothly tapered, in comparison to the "stepped" head of a finish nail. When used to install casing around windows or doors, they allow the wood to be pried off later with minimal damage when repairs are needed, and without the need to dent the face of the casing in order to grab and extract the nail. Once the casing has been removed, the nails can be extracted from the inner frame with any of the usual nail pullers.
- clout-nail
- coffin nail
- coil nail
- corrugated
- Dheadnail
- double-ended
- fiber cement
- finish - has the same diameter as a box nail.
- horseshoe
- joist hanger
- lost-head
- masonry - fluted nail for use in concrete
- nail bomb shrapnel
- panel pin
- plastic strip
- gutter spike
- ring shank - nails that contain ridges along the shank to provide extra support, an example would be the HurriQuake
- roofing tack
- shake - small headed nails to use for nailing sidewall shakes
- square
- T
- Teco - 1-1/2 x .148 shanks nails used in metal connectors (usually hurricane ties)
- veneer pin
- wire
- wire-weld collated
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