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    "title": "Nails for the building field: types and uses",
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    "excerpt": "The building and carpentry field involves a great many elements that can help people’s work.",
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            "summary": "The building and carpentry field involves a great many elements that can help people’s work.",
            "body": "The building and carpentry field involves a great many elements that can help people’s work.nnThat’s precisely why it’s necessary to know exactly all those tools that can be used during the various procedures.nnIt’s only right to give due importance to nails too, small elements whose usefulness is often downplayed.nnWhat are nails for the building field?nnNails are tiny tools used in various areas of life, such as building and craftsmanship.nnThese vary in shape, size, type and intended use, since each product can be best used in particular contexts.nnWhen you want to buy nails, you must consider some elements that help determine their type.nnThe head, for example, can have various shapes since, depending on the surface, it can be used for anchoring or extraction operations.nnThe shank too has different variants, and it is precisely from this small part that a nail’s strength and joining force can be seen.nnIt’s also very important to consider the point of the material in question, since it is precisely thanks to its shape that you’ll be able to choose the nail and the material to fasten.nnWhat are the most common types of nail on the market?nnThe market offers very many types of nail suited to the carpentry and building sector.nnThe most common are certainly steel ones, which can vary in length and diameter but are suited to almost all purposes.nnThanks to this small tool, in fact, you can fasten elements of every kind, which is why they can be used both for domestic jobs and for building or industrial activity.nnFinishing nails, on the other hand, have a head larger than the shank, and that’s precisely why, once driven into a hole, they become invisible.nnThey are the most suitable tools for high-precision operations, much appreciated by those who love finishes with a high aesthetic look.nnStaples, on the other hand, have a U shape and, as is easy to guess, therefore have two points. This lets them best fasten wire mesh and posts of various sizes.nnWorth mentioning too are the carpenter’s nails, the ones we’ve all seen at least once in our lives. This is the type that is easiest to extract, since they have a very pronounced point and an easily handled head.nnSpikes are extremely sturdy steel nails that can come into contact with very hard materials such as cement, wood and concrete.nnVery interesting and equally in demand are tacks, small nails with an extremely wide head but a short shank.nnThis last type is widely used in fields relating to fastening fabrics and covering elements.nnWhat stress must a nail withstand?nnThe nail’s functionality is often downplayed, as people don’t always dwell on the fact that these small elements do very important work.nnA nail must withstand so-called mechanical anchoring.nnWe’re talking about a strong level of tension the nail undergoes at its ends. This is because the nail tends to support an object that, involuntarily, exerts a pull on it.nnThis results in further stress on the nail, linked to the expansion movement it makes in response to the tension.nnAt first this is limited to the end and then the shank but, over time, ends up spreading through the whole structure.nnIn some serious cases this could become so strong as to compromise the nail’s strength, making it give way and causing damage.nnAs if all this weren’t enough, a nail must be able to handle the weight of the object it has to support, withstanding the characteristics of the surface into which it is inserted.nnWe’re therefore talking about internal and external stresses arising from the loads the nail is called upon to deal with every day.nnThen there is so-called shear stress, which varies according to the nail’s orientation relative to the surface on which it must act.nnThe device’s inclination could in fact have negative effects on the tension exerted on it, especially if the load weighs excessively on the nail.nnDespite this, nails are designed to support the most varied weights, and that’s why, in most cases, they manage to complete their task successfully.nnTo try to make appropriate use of them, it’s therefore only right to assess the various types at the time of purchase and lean towards the one that seems closest to your needs.nnAll these devices are of excellent make but, obviously, if chosen wrongly they might not meet the required needs."
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