On Oct 9, 9:36*am, -MIKE- wrote:
fftt wrote:
Huh? * Care to take another try?

Do you mean the nail material has an allowable shear stress of 16,000
psi (lbs / sq in) ?

No. *I mean it takes 16,000lbs to shear a nail.

Have you seen those tests they do with the giant machines that hold
piece of whatever in one jaw while the other jaw pushes or pulls or
tears the other end. *This shear test has both jaws right next to each
other, coplanar, while one jaw moves down, perpendicular to the length
of the nail.

Because the code allowable shear loading (last time I checked) for a
16d common is somewhere in the 150 lb range

I'm guessing that has to do with how much weight is allowed, by code, to
be held by a single nail. *That has nothing to do with the shear
strength limit of the nail. *If the two were the same, then every house
would collapse before finished.

You and I can exertmuchmore than 150lbs with our bare hands.

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Mike-

I know all about "those giant machines".......I ran a research lab for
nearly 20 years, we had one.

And there is NO WAY a single 16d name can do ANYTHING that involves
16,000 lbs other than be destroyed at a WAY lower number.

You're latest post is mostly nonsense.

cheers
Bob