Sapper88 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Anybody know where to buy 70d nails? Checked all the local shops and did a little online searching and came up empty. Anyone on here able to bend one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jack Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Found these on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spike-Standard-Nails-Vintage-reproduction/dp/B01N6HTT1S/ref=sr_1_1?s=hardware&ie=UTF8&qid=1493405211&sr=1-1&keywords=70d+nails Old-fashioned 70d spikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Andrade Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 I have bent them and i gave one to @Chez a while back they look awesome bent. i believe i got mine from Tim T.and they cal'd around #500. Regular round ones though never saw the squares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobbler Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Bigger than 60d are usually called spikes or sometimes timber ties, try searching for those. Some interesting sizes here, just the first thing I came across. http://www.aftfasteners.com/spikes/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Juncker Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Menards has some spikes that are 5/16" X 7" they are not quite as hard as a red but are very challenging. At work so I don't have a pic but they are "gripfast" brand. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton.Torrella Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Yea I've been bending 7" "waffle headed" nails as warm ups to new red nails for about the past 6 months - I found them to be great warm ups and definitely also look cool and menacing - If you can bend a bastard or red in imps you'll murder them - I'll find out where my friend got them and post it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcottrell Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 how much harder would the 6 inch nail be? seriously.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobbler Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 60d's are like .23" diameter or something, easier than a blue nail. It's hard to find cheap 7" stuff so I think that's mostly what this is about. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealB Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks for all the info guys, I've been looking for some of these to try as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcottrell Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 9 hours ago, wobbler said: It's hard to find cheap 7" stuff so I think that's mostly what this is about. I should clarify. I was asking about the nail in that link to Amazon. The reason for my question is unlike round nails, those square spikes have a big taper. I know 60d vary a bunch, but depending on how centered you bent these it seems like the center thinkness would vary as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapper88 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks for the input. Looking for the round ones. I'm pursuing a few of the leads and will report back with my findings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Juncker Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 20 hours ago, Adam Juncker said: Menards has some spikes that are 5/16" X 7" they are not quite as hard as a red but are very challenging. At work so I don't have a pic but they are "gripfast" brand. the red normally is about .3125 +/- .002. The grip fast nails from Menards are .305 or so. They are a different material too. I have not DO bent in a while but I can attest that the gripfast nails are easier than the red. Another thing you can do if you have some reds, a drill, a caliper, and a bench grinder is grind the reds down. You only have to grind down the middle 2" or so. I can post a video of how to do this if you are interested. After some practice you can get pretty accurate and remove very small increments like. 005 at a time. I used a lathe for this before too but not everyone has access to a lathe. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHenze646 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 7 hours ago, Adam Juncker said: the red normally is about .3125 +/- .002. The grip fast nails from Menards are .305 or so. They are a different material too. I have not DO bent in a while but I can attest that the gripfast nails are easier than the red. I buy these nails every time I get near a Menards. They are relatively inexpensive and fairly consistent. They are good volume stock. I did one time get a box of shiny 70Ds that were much harder and only ever finished 3 out of the box. They look great when bent or whatever you might do with them. 😜 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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