"Huge" wrote in message
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My house has wooden trim fastened to the rendered exterior, using
rectangular section iron nails. Much of this trim is in poor
condition
and needs replacing. (I would remove it and make good, but The
Management
wants it replaced).

It would make my life a lot easier if I could fasten the replacement
on
by some means other than hammering masonry nails in while trying to
hold
a six feet length of 3" x 0.5" horizontal, up a ladder. Would a nail
gun knock a masonry nail into cement render over blockwork? The
blocks
are soft enough to poke holes in with your bare hands, but the
render
is apparently proof against a nuclear attack and I suspect it holds
the
house up ...

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[email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org dot uk]

The Spit gun style (that use a cartridge) definately will.:

http://tinyurl.com/2pd5ya

AWEM

On 13/03/2007 16:17, Andrew Mawson wrote:

The Spit gun style (that use a cartridge) definately will.:

"Not suitable for pre-cast/pre-stressed concrete, tempered steel, cast
iron, aluminium, natural stone, marble, granite, slate, flint,
engineering brick, lightweight block, plasterboard, timber."

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Andy Burns wrote:

On 13/03/2007 16:17, Andrew Mawson wrote:

The Spit gun style (that use a cartridge) definately will.:

"Not suitable for pre-cast/pre-stressed concrete, tempered steel, cast
iron, aluminium, natural stone, marble, granite, slate, flint,
engineering brick, lightweight block, plasterboard, timber."

Sounds like it would need less words to say what it *is* suitable for! g
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On 13/03/2007 19:11, Roger Mills wrote:

Sounds like it would need less words to say what it *is* suitable for! g

Actually it's quite verbose about that too

"suitable for fixing timber and drywall track systems to concrete and
steel, profiled steel decking, fire protection systems and threaded pin
applications to steel, frame clamps and grid flooring to structural steel"

On 13/03/2007 16:40, Huge wrote:

"Not suitable for pre-cast/pre-stressed concrete, tempered steel, cast iron,
aluminium, natural stone, marble, granite, slate, flint, engineering brick,
lightweight block, plasterboard, timber."

echo?

On 2007-03-14 20:07:57 +0000, Huge said:

On 2007-03-14, Andy Burns wrote:
On 13/03/2007 16:40, Huge wrote:

"Not suitable for pre-cast/pre-stressed concrete, tempered steel, cast iron,
aluminium, natural stone, marble, granite, slate, flint, engineering brick,
lightweight block, plasterboard, timber."

echo?

Naah, (i) I can't read news after about 16:40 'cos of those *******s at
Tiscali & (ii) we went to the same Spit page...

Reminds me of the John Cleese voice on my navigator.

At 800m from a motorway exit (and other places) he says

"After 800 metres - well I'd call it half a mile - but we have to say
800 metres
these days 'cos of that little *******, Napoleon..."

He also says

"Bear left, beaver right"

but I think that's about something else.