Nail Aid

[Masthugg]

Hello,

A long time ago, I saw a tool to prevent nails from bending. Like a driving pin inside a sleeve, roughly. Do such things still exist and what are they called?

 

[plåtrickard]

How often is it a problem?
For my part, most things are screwed now..but if I bend a nail, I straighten or replace it..

 

[Masthugg]

Not for me, for my children.

But you don't know then.

 

[plåtrickard]

Nah, probably never seen one like that..
But maybe it works with some kind of magnet?

 

[ÅkeSun]

I have vague memories from the 60s that my father had something similar in his toolbox. A brass rod/tube about 20mm in diameter, 120mm long with a 5mm inner diameter that was tapered on the lower side. In the hole ran a (magnetic) steel rod with a knob on top. You would insert the nail (nubb-dyckert) from below, place the cone where the nail should sit, and hit the knob with a hammer. I have no idea what it would be called, and I haven't seen anything like it since. On the other hand, I'm getting old enough that I might need one soon... but then I'd probably have to build my own.

 

[Unikt namn]

How old is the child? Perhaps the child finds it easier to handle a lighter hammer.