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Looking for where to purchase tiny nails with a round head with a square-pointed end?

shota70

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Hello my dear friends
I am asking for your help in locating an online store where you can purchase tiny nails with a round head along with a square or pentagonal end.
I am not looking for a round head alone or a square or pentagonal head alone, but a head that combines both shapes together.
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shota70 said:
Hello my dear friends
I am asking for your help in locating an online store where you can purchase tiny nails with a round head along with a square or pentagonal end.
I am not looking for a round head alone or a square or pentagonal head alone, but a head that combines both shapes together.
View attachment 549999View attachment 550000View attachment 549999View attachment 550000I am attaching a picture of the model that our friend Marslav is building for illustration.
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This is the result of my own work, I will try to improve the result by manual milling using a Proxon MF70.20251013_115802.jpg20251013_115837.jpg20251013_115856.jpg
 
In square nails, to avoid making too large a hole in the wood, you'll have to round off the bottom with a file. Fortunately, there aren't many nails on the ship, so this type of work is fine. Maybe someone else has some ideas.
 
Ondras71 said:
Hello Shoto. I use the same bolts as marsalv, purchased here at a Czech rail shop.:)

Other brass material is great too! Thumbs-Up
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Ondras, my dear friend
thank you very much for your help in this need, I really appreciate your response.
I sent you a personal message/email regarding the subject via the site's messaging system.
Regards Shota :)
 
This is pure theory:

Start with a soft copper wire that is the diameter that you are after.
Place it in a hole in a soft steel block that is the wire diameter or just enough larger to let it go and as deep as the bolt is to be long.

Instead of a block - checking Home Depot - a 3 ft x 1/2" cold rolled steel rod is $10. A hacksaw, files will get you two pieces of convenient size with flat surfaces.

Make a soft steel die that is the negative of the desired shape. There are carbide bits and burrs that will easily carve the hole shape - except round burrs cannot produce sharp corners - a diamond file can.
Once you determine how much copper to have above the block, wham the heck on the die and there will be your desired bolt head. I think this is a variation of ductility - one of the defining characteristics for being a metal.
Heating the proud to the block copper may speed things up.

OR - carve the negative in a block of wood. Give it a coat of shellac and fill the bolt head pattern hole with PVA mixed with fine sawdust or paper mache. When dry, paint the up side and glue the downside to the chocks.

Dean
 
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Another trick if you have a small torch. This works with brass, don’t know about copper.

Suspend a piece of brass wire vertically. Slowly heat the bottom end with a torch. It will form a ball on the end of the wire. The trick is controlling the heat so that the ball forms before wire melts. Not nearly as hard as it sounds!

The ball can then be filed to the required shape.

Roger
 
While your description confused me, what you show appears to me to look like a bolt with a square head and larger washer. If that is the case, these are available in multiple sizes in plastic from model stores and are mostly used for 1/35 scale armor (tanks) and railroad models. They wouldn't be metal, of course, so would need painting, but might give you what you want. Meng makes just the heads with or without washers, and are applied to the surface, while Tichy Train Group makes short bolts to be inserted into holes. There's a great variety of these in style and size, so something might work for you. This is basically what I was thinking in this case:
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www.hobbylinc.com carries these particular ones.

Hope this helps.
 
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