This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...it is unnecessary to bore a hole before driving a cut nail; all that is requisite is to place the cutting edge of the nail across the grain of the wood; it is also true that cut nails will hold better in the wood. These qualities are, in some rough building works, worth 20 per cent. of the value of the article, which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...it is unnecessary to bore a hole before driving a cut nail; all that is requisite is to place the cutting edge of the nail across the grain of the wood; it is also true that cut nails will hold better in the wood. These qualities are, in some rough building works, worth 20 per cent. of the value of the article, which is equal to the whole expense of manufacturing. For sheathing and drawing, cut nails are fully as good as wrought nails; only in one respect are the best wrought nails superior to cut nails, and that is where it is necessary they should be clinched." Subsequent to this statement, a great number of patents were taken out in this country for making nails, many of which were of American origin, and at the present time the manufacture of nails by machinery in this country alone has assumed proportions which are truly marvellous. Another and most important improvement in nails, of French origin, is the elegant wire nail (pointes de Paris), also machine made, which has, for many purposes--for putting together packing-cases, for example--greatly superseded even the cut nail. The great advantage of these wire nails is that they can be driven into any soft wood without the use of the bradawl, and without in any degree splitting the timber--a fault from which even cut nails are not always exempt. Hooks and eyes, and even pins, which were formerly made only from brass wire, are now frequently made from iron wire--a fact which may readily be determined by applying a magnet, which of course will not attract them if they are made of brass. The manufacture of sheet-iron, coated with zinc--generallyknown as Galvanized Iron--and which is so extensively used for the roofing of sheds and other structures in place of tiles or slates, and even for building tem...
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