In the technical report resulting from the research program at the New York Naval Shipyard — which report is entitled "Polymeric Com-pounds to Improve the Strength of Wood with Wood Fasteners", available from the Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, under code number AD259053 -- no indication is given that exotic ideas such as polymer cross-linking were even considered. However, the fact that epoxies and polyesters were used with good results suggests that the program was at least skirting the concepts now of interest to industrial laboratories. The importance of wood fasteners should not be minimized. There are, today, approximately 400 different. kinds of devices for the mechanical joining of wood or for attaching other materials to wood These range from the common nail to items of engineering hardware for distributing loads in heavy truss construction. Any improvements in re-spect to the holding power of simple driven fasteners would be helpful in home construction — or in increasing the functional utility of wooden structures from boxes to pallets, from lobster pots to tobacco barns.
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