1. Long nails better to score 400 — 500-gram hammer, small hammer weighing up to 250 g.
2. To find deep hammered nails and putty, for example, repair loose floorboards, will help magnetized needle on a string. It needs to move along the boards at a height of one millimeter against the nail, the needle is deflected, just specifying the desired place.
3. At inclined nailing the connection is more durable.
4. The length of the nail should be chosen in such a way that he stitched through the Board, entered the bar of not less than 2/3 of its length. Then the design will be reliable.
5. To drive a nail into hard wood hard enough. Often it is bent, bringing a lot of trouble and making the unsightly appearance of the product. Help this is an ordinary candle. Grate wax the rod of a nail — and it will go much easier.
6. The nail will be easier to score even in the hardest wood, if the tip lubricated with soap or dip it in the oil.
7. The nail will not bend, if it is to hold with a pliers.
8. When you need to hammer a nail into the edge of the Board, pre-drill the hole with a diameter slightly less than the diameter of the nail.
9. Hammering a nail into the edge of the Board pre-seal in the place of wood, slightly deepening the punch hammer. This will prevent the Board from cracking.
10. In the absence of upholstery nails, you can use a combination of: pushpin plus nail.
11. In order to pull a nail from wood without damaging its surface, you must enclose a pliers or claw hammer wooden block.
12. If you do not have galvanized nails, common glow red-hot and dip them in linseed oil, the film Formed will protect them from rust.
13. If a nail head or screw head, connecting the two wooden parts, you want to hide, will atsaite chisel thin chips (but not completely) in the desired location and hammer the nail in. Then put glue and glue chips into place. The nail head will completely covers.
14. Drown nail you with a punch. Hat deepen. and the resulting hole zashpaklevyvayut.
15. Not easy to hammer a small nail in a hard place, but still under a certain angle. Especially difficult to set a nail and make the first strikes. Relief images in the place where it will be scored, the piece of clay, you will easily cope with this task. After a few strokes clay can be removed.
16. First, tighten and secure at an angle the screw in the wood and especially in rubber difficult. To solve the problem will be easier if you pre-drill or burn a hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw.
17. Do not cut sandpaper with a knife, its blade quickly becomes blunt. Better put sandpaper abrasive down and swipe across the paper with a sharp nail, the paper will break exactly at the scratched line.
18. Hammering a nail into plaster, not wallpapered wall, easily damage its finish. So the plaster does not crumble, can be pre-glued on the place where it should be hammered a nail, a piece of sticky tape.
B. RAWSKI
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It would seem, to nail — what could be simpler than that? However, even such a seemingly simple operation requires a calculated approach and a certain experience.
