TonyMills
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I came across these in the parts list for building a Trug dinghy PBO 277. Does anyone know what they are?
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TonyMills
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TonyMills
Bronze Ring Nails
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Silicon bronze ring-barb nails.
Most good chandlers will have them (sold loose by weight), and a lot of the not so good ones will have them in over-priced pre-packs.
If you've never seen a ring-barb (mild steel version is commonly used in roof construction and the like) they are flat headed nails with parallel shanks which have rings of projecting barbs along their length.
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Most good chandlers will have them (sold loose by weight), and a lot of the not so good ones will have them in over-priced pre-packs.
If you've never seen a ring-barb (mild steel version is commonly used in roof construction and the like) they are flat headed nails with parallel shanks which have rings of projecting barbs along their length.
hth
ccscott49
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They are also called "gripfast" nails, Anglia stainless steel, in suffolk do them in various sizes. They were used for all kinds of things, including nailing planking on some boats, but remember, once they are in, they stay in! You will destroy the piece of timber, before they come out!
graham
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Robbins in Bristol sell them along with all types of hardwood and other boatbuilding hardware.Sorry I dont have the phone no. but I bet someone else on the forum will know it.
PS Look at their website www.robbins.co.uk It has information on bronze gripfasts .
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PS Look at their website www.robbins.co.uk It has information on bronze gripfasts .
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Fllodtide
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trug
Hi Tony.
A little off topic! But you mention the trug dingy. Do you know if plans for this boat are still available, and if so from where.
Regarding Gripfast nails. They work well until you want to remove them!
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Maurice
Hi Tony.
A little off topic! But you mention the trug dingy. Do you know if plans for this boat are still available, and if so from where.
Regarding Gripfast nails. They work well until you want to remove them!
Regards
Maurice
Lady Campanula
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This is the sort of thing....
It seems I still have several hundred of them lying around.
It seems I still have several hundred of them lying around.
Amulet
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It seems I still have several hundred of them lying around.
Really - my recollection is that, when I bought them fo a dinghy I was building, they were pretty expensive. Classic Marine list them. Trouble is I never know how many you get to a kilo.
Lady Campanula
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Those shown are 65mm o/a length, and 15gm/pair. I have no intention of counting all those in my polytunnel boatshed. I'd fall asleep.....
Edit: having peered at the Classic Marine site indicated, it would suggest I have several hundred pounds worth of beer tokens lying around in various cardboard boxes, in my polytunnel.
Hmmmm! That's worth more than my pension fund....
Edit: having peered at the Classic Marine site indicated, it would suggest I have several hundred pounds worth of beer tokens lying around in various cardboard boxes, in my polytunnel.
Hmmmm! That's worth more than my pension fund....
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