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   diddidit | May 02, 2006 09:18pm | #1

   I would not have believed that was possible!

   did

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   BillBrennen | May 02, 2006 09:31pm | #2

   What brand of nail was it? It looks like the wood found a weakened plane in the steel and just rove it apart along the fault line. Maybe the Smithsonian will buy it off you for their museum!

   Bill

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   DanH | May 02, 2006 10:04pm | #3

   I'd guess that when the wire was being formed for the nails either a flaw got into the billet or two billets were being spliced together at that point. Even with the flaw in the steel it was probably less than a 1 in 100 chance that it would split at all, and to curl around like that is a "bonus".

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