Penny Size of Nails

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• Penny size is bullshit. Penny size applied to different nail types means a different length! Read this - [1]
• Joist hanger names were called Tico nails [2].
  • If double top plate - then 1.5" is not the limitation and 3" nails should be used.
  • Sometimes 10D refers to diameter, as Tice 1.5" are called 10D - read comments at [3]
• Building code defines a 10D nail as a .148 nail, 3" long [4]
• 1" is 2D [5]. Note that penny size came historically from cost of the nails in pennies. So the length is not proportial to D size. [6]. The only thing we know is that the larger the D number, the larger the nail.
• 10D is 3" long - [7]
• Joist hanger nails do not seem to have D size attached to them - this one is 1.5" [8]
• This 8D is 1.5" long [9]. Is that an error? Chart says 8D is 2.5".
• 3.5" common nail, galvanized. 16D [10]

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• Joist hanger nail gun

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• Gun - $250 [11]
• Metal connector gun nails - 6.5 cents each - [12]
• Metabo joist hanger gun - $200 - [13]
• .148 nails menards - $45 [14] - 4.5 cents each. Gun - [15]
• Bostitch nails - 4.5 cents each [16]