<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I suppose we could be talking about different generations of these shanks as they have evolved. But the ones I have do indeed twist, and do break easily, splitting lengthwise in non-repairable fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>Kent</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2011, at 7:51 PM, William Monroe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Agreed, they twist easily with heat applied for "burning shanks" but in the absence of heat, they do not twist.  Which is, in my opinion, EXACTLY what we need in this business.  If (God forbid) one hangs a hammer just slightly crooked, it sure is nice to be able to heat a shank and twist it into position, as we do wooden shanks.  Score one for pultrusion, I say.<div> <br></div><div>William R. Monroe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Kent Swafford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kswafford@gmail.com">kswafford@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>My experience is the same as Mark's. WNG shanks are downright fragile in terms of torsion. I broke several the first time I tested for loose hammer heads.</div> <div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Kent Swafford</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>