On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:36:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:
My gutter is coming down at one end - three consecutive nails have worked
themselves out over 40 years, I guess.

I climbed up there to hammer them back in, but they show almost no resistance
to hammering - you could just push them back in the holes by hand.

Obviously they will not stay.

Are there various diameter gutter nails, and I just have to go up one size?

Wrap them in something like friction tape and them hammer them back?

Glue of some sort to encourage them to stay put?

What's the drill for this?

Ron,

There are gutter screws:

http://www.gutterworks.com/gutterscrews.html

Never tried but I had heard of them.

Frank

I've used them. I had one area of gutter that was pulling away and
water was running down inside the siding. The gutter screws pulled it
tight against the house better than new. I have since gone around the
whole house and replaced all nails with the screws. It makes a big
difference in how secure the gutters are.

That was 15 years ago. No problems since. I've seen them at Home
Depot.