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   Piffin | Jan 02, 2003 03:18am | #1

   The Paslodes have something set in them to stop you from using them at about 22°F or so. Even before it gets this cold, it doesn't fire with quite as much of a whallop.

   Reason is that the butane gets less volatile or thew propellant doesn't load enough fuel for each shot. The fuel burns less efficiently so the chamber can get fouiled quicker and nails that drive in summer don't do same in cold. Frozen dampness in lumber is denser too so overall, I don't bother with the framer below thirty degrees unless I have a heat shack to rewarm it occasionally.

   Water is not kind to the electronics either if you work in the drizzle.

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   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

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   booch | Jan 02, 2003 07:44am | #2

   Don't know on the Paslode in the cold. I used it as long as I was able to work outdoors. Probably the butane doesn't get to the gas state verily readily in cold weather. Ever notice the propane heater tanks run on heaters in the winter? you can only drain 2/3 of the fuel cause it gels up in the tank. I'd probably stockpile the "empty" paslode fuel tanks from winter use and use the rest of it in the summer.

   As for the compressor. Coalescing filters are what is needed. They filter out the moisture before it gets in the compressor. Make sure to empty the water from the filters and tank as well as long lines often so you don't make a popsicle.

   It gets down to swinging a hammer. Sometimes that is the easiest way.

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   Piffin | Jan 02, 2003 07:59am | #3

   Hammer's got a built in heater!

   ;).

   Excellence is its own reward!

   "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.

   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

   --Marcus Aurelius