My apologizies to whomever I laughed at about a year ago. Someone posted a tip here about working with finish nailers, and how he always shot 2-3 nails into a scrap of wood to be sure any leftovers were cleaned out. Ha-ha I thought, what a bozo, all he has to do is pull out the old nails and put in the new ones. That’s not worthy of a tool tip.
Today I was doing a little work, put a new strip of 1/2″ staples in the gun. Before I did, I opened the magazine and tapped out the old 1″ staples. Loaded it up, connected the hose, and proceeded to shoot two staples all the way through the wood. Turned it over and they were sticking out about 3/8″.
Only two good parts to the story: I had enough sense to keep my fingers out of the way, and it is a paint-grade project.
“Put your creed in your deed.” Emerson
“When asked if you can do something, tell’em “Why certainly I can”, then get busy and find a way to do it.” T. Roosevelt
Edited 9/16/2007 10:30 pm ET by FastEddie
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I must own almost 20 nail and staple guns and practically every one of them harbors a couple of fugitives after claiming to be empty. Off the top of my head I'd say the coil nailers are the only ones that are definitely empty and can be verified as such. Everything else has a couple of too-long nails in it.
like when ya change to shorter nails to do the trim and base for a pocket door...
they know how to hide...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Every trim carp has a story about nailing a pocket door open. I've never done it... yet.
quick - go knock on some wood View Image View Image
you have a sacrifical alter of some kind???Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
or sliding the door to the open position across a passel of thru nails..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"or sliding the door to the open position across a passel of thru nails.."All I can say is......DOH!!!!!!!God, I've done the 'nail it open' more than once, I gotta confess.David- Perhaps we can arrange an initiation for you into these hallowed halls of pocket door nailing! :0)
David may be the only one there...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I think it's that the only pocket doors I've dealt with recently have been ordinary PG stuff. When we get a nice Honduras mahogany pocket door with a gorgeous satin finish on it... I'll nail the bastard open for you guys.
Or nail it shut. With no way out, and the cats paw is just on the other side.
I don't think my cats paws would pull finish gun nails. I'd have to hope I was trapped in a water closet and could escape down the 3" waste line.
And beware of hanging cabinets in a hurry. and you are hitting something, but not real solid, so you throw about 6 more screws in to hold real well. ..........I was just a worker bee.....boss told me to do it that way.
Bowz
don't say that.....
becarefull what ya wish for...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Ed
I worked with a couple guys about 5 years ago, neither one could stand the other.
We were nailing some cabinet parts together out in the field and one asked for a nail gun with 1 1/4" nails, second guy hands first guy the gun while loading the 1 1/4" nails.
First guy holds his finger behind the piece to be nailed and shots the gun, you guessed it, nail goes through the piece and right into his finger, gun had a 2" nail in it. If looks could kill that second guy would be dead.
Fast forward and I'm working with the first guy and the second one is gone but as for the tip, when I really need to have a shorter nail I will fire several shots from the gun into a stud or something else just to make sure I've cleared any longer nails.
Doug