TUBE-LOK® FASTENERS
Product Testing Results

LAW ENGINEERING TESTING COMPANY

MATERIALS TESTING ENGINEERS
SOIL AND FOUNDATION INVESTIGATIONS
396 PLASTERS AVE., N.E.
P.O. BOX 13260, STA. K
ATLANTA, GA 30374

REPORT OF: NAIL PULLOUT TESTS

Client: Simplex Nails, Inc.
P.O. Box 545
Americus, Ga. 31709
Date: June 11, 1982
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Job No. G-8872 Lab No: 24325

Two sizes of self-locking tube fasteners were received in our laboratory June 11, 1982, and subjected to nail pullout tests conducted according to your instructions. The fasteners were hammer driven into four different slab materials and withdrawn with a *Dynamometer Assembly designed to indicate the pullout resistance value (lbs. force). Both the test slabs and the loading assembly were supplied by Simplex Nails, Inc. The test results are listed below:

TEST RESULTS

SLAB MATERIAL INSERT SIZE (IN.) REQUIRED FORCE
(LBS.)
ZONOLITE  2 1/12 120
90
100
105 Average
FIBROPLANK 3 1/2 80
105
100
95 Average
SPAN-ROCIK 2 1/2 305
300
320
310 Average
SPAN-ROCK     3 1/2 305
280
245
275 Average
DUNE’S LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE 2 1/2 130
135
120
130 Average

*Dynamometer calibrated on 11/1/81 according to manufacturer’s specifications.