[Chaincarver Steve]

while working on the roof of the gazebo I'm building, I ran out of nails. So I went and bought another box. So I bought a box of Grip Rite brand 2 1/2" ring shank (The first box was another brand).

I very quickly realized that the second nail I pulled from the box was shorter than the first one I pulled out.

I discovered that the nails are extremely inconsistent in length. I randomly pulled out 10 nails and lined them up to compare length. Here they are, in order from left to right:

Here's a comparison with the next random sampling of 10.

The nails range from about 2" to 2 1/2". What the heck is going on here? The box was sealed when I got it. How can they sell a 5-pound box of nails with such varying lengths? See how many, ratio-wise, are shorter than they should be? At least 8 out of the sampling of 22 shown are considerably shorter than the 2 1/2" I was buying.

I've never experienced this before but it makes me nervous about buying any more in the future.

 

[amckenzie4]

I've gotten the occasional wrong-length nail, but never that kind of variability. I'm pretty sure I've bought Grip Rite for just about everything.

My bet would be that there's one production run that was just wrong, and they will have fixed it after that.

 

[Gilgaron]

Contact them. Most people must not take the time, but everytime I've contacted a company about a problem with their product they've done right by me, usually replacing the product. For something like that they might give you a coupon.

Alternatively the big box stores around here are pretty liberal on their return policy.