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SPECIAI PURPOSE nails (L-il: A-ring-shank; B-drive screw; C-.gypslm board dry wall nZil; D-masonite srorng ffiil; t-ring-shatk staple, for attachins tencing to cremoted po6ts; F-drive screw for floorl ing and stair treads, ard G-pole barn nails.

And to spark this whole discussion, make up a o'Nail Board" on which a variety of basic and special purpose nails are mounled snd hbdod for diday. Similer to the old-tirne l'ammunition boards,' on which as many as a hundred difierent kinds of cartridges were mounted, the nail board can be an attention-getter. The cataIogue of any American manufacturer of steel nails will present a wide selection of nails for such a board.

It's a fairly sure bet that the average home-owner will be fascinated by the variety of nails available to him. All that,s needed to drive home the messase of the board is the sales clerk's kncrwiedeeable explanation of the purposes these nails serve. Here's how far we've come from the round nail with a flat head that rnost customers think begins and ends the subject of nails: o ]\{odern American steel nails can be square, grooved, ringed and some are made in a screw-type spiral and revolve when they are hammered into place. o Modern steel nails have as many as nine difierent kinds of points ranging from diamond to chisel to pointless. One manufacturer alone produces nails with 16 difierent kinds of heads. o As for head styles, these include oval, cupped, counter-sunk, diamond, checkered, numbered, lettered and umbrella-shaped heads--as well as nails with two heads.

DON PHILIPS, Jr.

o Finish is still another option. There are blued, cement coated, acid etched, hot dip and electro-galvanized among others.

With this list of variations and sizes ranging from half an inch to six incheso

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