After reading various recommendations on this site I finally went and bought the Bostich N79. Some of you had mentioned Bostich was good, and the price was also right – $219 at HD. I bought Bostich nails and proceeded to my work site to frame up a couple of walls. I had nothing but trouble with the thing. The nails wouldn’t advance properly and then the next shot would bend the head on the next one in line. I realized after much agonizing that all the Bostich nails on the shelf at HD were wire weld, and my new gun was supposed to have plastic collated. I didn’t want a gun that I was going to have trouble getting nails for. I ended up taking the whole thing back, and the nails, and exchanging for the Porter Cable 350C that uses the paper collated Paslode/Senco/Hitachi nails. I haven’t used it yet, but I hope it works okay. I would have liked to buy the Senco but couldn’t justify the extra $100 for something I use occassionally. Do any of you have any experience with the PC?
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CampbellDust,
I have the 350c. I don't use it every day but it seems to work okay for me. Some people complain that it double fires, it does occassionaly but I think it is more the operator than the gun in most cases. I have never had it jam, and nails are easy to find.
Chris
Thanks for the reply. I got to break it in last night putting a new subfloor in a pair of bathrooms. It was great. I changed out the trigger to sequential - I'm an amateur and don't need rapid fire - so I shouldn't have problems with double firing. It seems powerful and light and the paper Paslode nails worked perfectly.
Pasolde Powermaster Plus........$299........fantastic bargain. Jeff.......Sometimes on the toll road of life.....a handful of change is good.......
Spend the money, buy the paslode, you can't beat it.
from 1982 until now I haved used them all, and still use pneumatic in my furniture shop, you can't beat cordless. I am surprised there aren't more companies selling cordless nailers.Buy reconditioned.it is much cheaper.
Cool. Slinger trucks. Pretty high tech for the south. A few years ago a job I was on used Georgia buggies to pour a slab under a building and many of the people on the job had never seen them before. After the pour the carpenters took turns running, racing, them around the building.
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Hmmm. Looks like my post ended up on the wrong thread. Probably my fault. I may have had two threads open. Oh well walking on water gets boring and makes taking a bath difficult.