nail plate appreciation thread. not recommended uses for nail plates
i put wallpaper or flags on styrofoam panels and attach nail plates onto the wall with the points out so i can just push styrofoam panels into the plates.
>>2975994i cut my fingers so many times on these fuckers while building trusses
>>2975994Fuck these things. They're what made steep pitched roofs and McMansion's possible.
>>2976006Yup, reaching bare handed into boxes of these fuckers all day and slapping them with a hammer and then flip, then do it all over again. Don't you dare touch my country station boy.
I refuse to believe that Americans go into a lifetime of debt and compete with each other to see who can pay more for a shack made of toothpicks and paper mache. That they brag about whose pile of twigs and LITERAL PAPER is bigger. They make their dwellings out of literal fucking paper?There is simply no way I will believe this. I keep hearing about it but I just reject the idea outright, it’s too ridiculous. I can accept many strange and seemingly untrue things about the world but I simply will not accept that Americans are that mindless. It simply isn’t possible to convince a fully grown person of average intelligence that wood and paper that blows away in a strong wind is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Someone who could sell that idea would have to be the greatest salesman in the history of our species.
>>2975994looks like a hip truss there
>>2976059I appreciate how the japs build houses out of paper, but they are priced appropriately and only expected to last 20 years or until the next earthquake, whichever comes earlier.They get to buy an old lot, even in the suburbs, for just the value of the land and build whatever the fuck they want, completely custom.
I was debating using these or plates and nails for my pallet log store. Went with the latter because they were more familiar. Did I waste my time?I mean it was enjoyable either way and my son likes his new house, so meh. As long as it doesn't fall down.Goddamn the roofing felt sucked though.
>>2976042You’re not supposed to hammer them on.They are made for factory use.Every on that was hammered was installed incorrectly. Every single one.Some random spaz hammering them in leads to very shitty results.Doing field repairs (like the dropped the truss stack) typically requires a hydraulic manual press to install the plates. Or you can just use oversize plywood sometimes.
>>2976042Plz be lying That's so fuckin wrong
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>>2976059my house is 132 and built from nearly 100% wood
>>2975994here in my country we just nail them down at an angle, no fancy steel plating like that
>>2978199I believe thats the difference between rafters and trusses. Rafters are built on site by the carpenter, and typically are just nailed together, trusses are engineered in a factory and are stamped together with those plates. It lowers the number of inside walls that bear the weight of the roof and snow on top of it.
>>2979445hahah, not a recommend use
>>2976153Lots of places in the US live tornado-tornado, hurricane-to-hurricane, superstorm-to-superstorm, or city-destroying-fire to city-destroying fire…Are the rebuilding all those thousands of california homes out of bri… earthquake-to-earthquake, or in texas, freeze-to-freeze or flood-to-flood.
Were not these things found to be terrible during house fires when the surface of the wood turns to coal, loses strenght and expands? And the plates just separate from the beama because of thwir extremly shallow penetration depth?
