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   nathan_wegemer | Jan 25, 2001 06:12am | #1

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   .... the only one using the wrong nail in your gun? heck no...

   I had a real piece of chevy of a senco, and was able fire plastic collated nails with about a 95% success ratio, thinking I would save some money by using the less expensive nail.

   I ended up stitching my thumb tight to the web between the third knuckle of my index and bird finger, drove that 3" nail flush to the side of my thumb and buried the nail up into the palm of my hand.

   amazing what we'll try, huh?

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   STEVE_LEONARD | Jan 25, 2001 03:31pm | #2

   *The thing is , is that the Makita is supposed to take the Paslode and the Senco nails it was made for them! Senco's work fine,just paslode 8d bind up!Can you still Whistle??

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   nathan_wegemer | Jan 26, 2001 08:13am | #3

   *I've found that the rails can be over-tightened on the Hitachis, and this can cause nails of a larger diameter to not feed smoothly into the firing chamber (although this does not explain why the i smaller nail is binding).. just a suggestion, you might see what you can do with tuning the rail, if it has any hex bolts that control the width of the rail slot where the nail heads glide on... one more thing, sometimes my Hitachis that take up to a .148 diameter nail have a hard time controlling the 8d .113. The collation seems to be too fragile, and the impact of the return spring pushing the clips down into the driver break up the nails, then a jam follows shortly. just a thought.you know, that puncture hurt so bad, I took off in my volks bus and circumnavigated the lower 48. Took me nine months, and about four months into it I ran out of money. i Hand-banged houses in Louisville to get back on the road. Have shot myself numerous times since, but the nail has to fly through the air for a distance before it hits. I'll never let the driver push another nail into me again. I had just cleared a jamb, that had siezed the nose piece. After clearing the jamb, I grabbed the nosepiece and checked it for function. Forgot that I had a good grip on the gun with my left hand, and had the trigger squeezed....

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   STEVE_LEONARD | Jan 26, 2001 08:14am | #4

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   Has any one out there had any problems with using Paslode 8d ringshank nails in the new Makita frame gun!? Spikes or 12d work great and nice gun but the paslode nails have a space between each nail that gets pushed together and causes nails to jam in gun! Am I the only one???