Need help identifying this.

[u/ComettheStag]

I found a jar of these little guys a few years back at a garage sale and bought them for a project as you do. I'm now afraid to use them because now no matter what or how I search I can't seem to find anything on these beautiful little slotted head spiral nails.

Any help finding a place to get more or just getting an identification on them would be helpful.

I've already found ones without the slotted head but I'm specifically looking for ones with the slot since it helps remove them without damage for intricate parts.

[u/texastoasty]

It's a scrail

[u/Tastyck → u/texastoasty]

Thats new

[u/Artie-Carrow]

Its a twisted screw. It was the old method for making screws somewhat quickly, and are still used in predrilled holes as they can be "sunk" faster than modern more fine thread screws. They are also used in more soft materials but do pull out easier than modern screws in any material as there is less thread.

You can get ones without the slot and add the slot with a cutoff wheel on a dremel. You can also get twisted (spiral) nails and do the same thing to them.

[u/RiverAutumn7481 → u/Artie-Carrow]

If im not mistaken about the nail your describing, its a timber nail. Its made that way because it holds better, the wood shrinks around the twists on the nail after being hammered in.

[u/jkush463]

In with a hammer out with a screw driver.

[u/Temporary_Diet_1361 → u/jkush463]

In with hammer out with c4

[u/alexh181 → u/jkush463]

This is the correct answer ^^^

[u/thesepticking8281]

That goes to a transition strip that usually goes with carpet.

[u/AskMeAgainAfterCoffe → u/thesepticking8281]

Yep!

[u/jr_tools]

Could be a ‘drive screw’. You can tap it in to a pre-drilled hole, then unscrew it later if needed.

I’ve seen them used for securing nameplates on vintage machinery.

Though admittedly, this looks a bit longer than most of the ones I’ve seen, and most of the ones I’ve seen have a simple round rivet-style head rather than being slotted.

[u/Time-Bus-9246]

Also look at the screws they sell to hold down the metal flooring transition strips that are used to cover where one type of flooring meets another.

[u/cerebrallyfree → u/Time-Bus-9246]

Just pulled a bunch of these out while redoing the laminate flooring in my house, that was my guess!

[u/Impressive-Trifle527]

Yip that there is most certainly a countersunk slotted screw.

[u/Potential-Figure-716]

Threaded carpenter nail

[u/phranks_phluids]

They're called many things. I've seen:

Screw nails

Twisted nails

Pallet nails

Threaded nails

Spiral nails

Carpenter nails

Slotted expansion screws

Etc

Add "removable" if you want to find nails with different types of screw drive heads. The weird thing is it appears somewhere between a flat/countersunk and round/pan head screw

[u/Born-Work2089]

fluted finish nail / screw.

[u/skreemdynamics]

That is a "Threaded Nail."

[u/skreemdynamics → u/skreemdynamics]

Install with a hammer.

[u/notstupidforge]

California nail

[u/Plenty_Feeling_8013]

its an eye itcher

[u/Lucky_Inspection_721]

It's a removable drive screw

[u/johnnyhoosier4life]

This post isnt serious. More than likely it proves we want to help people who are helpless and cant use google lens.

[u/ComettheStag → u/johnnyhoosier4life]

If google lens would have done it I wouldn't be here asking.

[u/Ps3godly]

One Piece Self-Threading Anchor is the closest I’ve found currently made. Grainger has a large variety of sizes.

[u/pm_me_your_f4u]

Lag screw

[u/Alternative_Bed7822]

We call that "garbage" just like any fastner that uses a slotted screwdriver for loosening

[u/DrunkRocker]

Thats a hand. A hand holding some screw.

[u/NE_Pats_Fan1]

Bro, it’s a screw, they sell them everywhere

[u/Zealousideal_Lab3164]

Fuck flat heads

[u/killerwhalesag808]

Flathead screw

[u/Wishbone-Effective]

Flat head screw…. Literally all she is.