The Best Nail

I found this nail last year and I think its great, it also got top awards in many different places. For just a few dollars more you can use this to build your house with.

http://www.bostitch.com/xhtml/interactive_hurriquake/hurriquake_show.html

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2006/product_75.html

Popular Science is naming its Best of What's New. It's not your average nail though, the HurriQuake nail spent six years in development. Its designed to help building withstand hurricane force winds (over 71MPH) and earthquakes that rock wood structures apart.

From the article:
"As the Bostitch team tweaked the head-to-shank ratio, Sutt and metallurgist Tom Stall worked on optimizing high-carbon alloys, trying to find the highest-strength trade-off between stiffness and pliability — the key to preventing snapped nails. 'Meanwhile,' Sutt says, 'we were focusing on how to keep the nail from pulling out.' The team machined a series of barbed rings that extend up the nail's shaft from its point, experimenting with the size and placement of the barbs. 'You want the rings to have maximum holding power,' he says, 'but if they go up too high, it creates a more brittle shank that shears more easily.'"

I dont really have anything more to say about this, it just seems like an excellent product that costs only marginally more than ordinary nails.

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