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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3224498, member: 8267&quot;]Is any part of the nail/tack magnetic? Is there another piece of metal inside the shank/point? It looks like it is jacketed, like the shank is covered with another thin piece of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using &quot;jacketed tack nail&quot; as a search term, I found a 1952 patent for something that sounds like it might be what you have:</p><p>&quot;continuous wire stock of rigid metal that is enveloped in a substantial relatively thick jacket of non-corrosive metal and the cutting of this jacketed wire stock at spaced points to form nail sections, and the forming of the penetrating point, shank and head of each fastening device without any loss or waste of the core metal or of the jacket metal so that the complete fastening device is completely jacketed with non-corrosive metal without the necessity of subjecting it to any further plating or coating operation.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2718647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2718647" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US2718647</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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