We just talked about that last night, how when we were kids we had to scrounge rusty used nails and straighten them all before we started a project.
Fond memories...when we were kids and decided to build something first thing was to empty the coffee can with the bent nails and straighten enoungh for what we wanted to build.
Thought it was seventh heaven first time seeing a 50lb box of "new" 16 penny nails.
Man, isn't that the truth. Fond memories for sure. If I remember right, some of those old coffee cans had some kind of ring on them, sort of bent over double on each side of the rim. Think there was one laying around the house and my brother fell on it and cut the palm of his hand pretty bad.
Sorry for the distraction, old things connecting the dot moment.
