Advice wanted re Framing Nailers

[woodguy7]

Speed

I always found a 100ltr to be enough.

Woodguy

 

[Tim Sproul]

Speed,

You can fire a framing nailer with the smallest of compressors.  

Yup, you can use a little compressor but the problem is the tank size.  Framers require a good volume of air with each firing to fully drive the nails.  Small compressors generally have smaller tanks and are often used with smaller hoses.  This means the pressure drops rapidly once the gun is fired, leading to under driven nails.

Use a 3/8 id hose and you want 4+ gallon tank compressor.

Once you raise the wall and start driving nails into the mud sill, you will appreciate having a larger compressor. 

 

[Sparktrician]

Inspectors have an issue with clipped headed gun nails because they can be over driven causing a decrease in holding strength.  If they aren't over driven into the wood, they have the same holding strength as full round headed nails.  Don't let the inspectors walk all over you.  Make nice nice to a point, but don't let them take advantage of you just for ease of passing their inspection.  I know Senco provides engineering specs for their nails should you butt heads with your inspector.

Just want to add this note.  If full round headed nails aren't fully driven into contact with the wood, you'll have the same holding strength issue (under driven).

 

Hate to say it, but reason and proven data have little to do with swaying inspectors in this region.  Some won't even listen to a sound argument, and instead refer to the code and assiduously stick to it in the face of good sense and reasoned thinking.  All things considered, it's just smarter business to use round-head nails and not have the hassles.  Around here, most of the inspectors will "work with" a contractor and not against them, but if there's a bunch of arguing, the inspectors have been known to lose their flexibility which causes further problems that can last well past the current project. 

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[NPayne]

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[RDMuller]

It sounds like you are using this for a single project for the time being.  Make sure you check into availability of nails in the quantities you need.  If you are required to purchase case quantities, they may be sitting around for a long long time before you get them all used.  I was lucky in that a contractor friend gave me some and got me through the project

 

[Stone Message]

Hi Guy

Have you done this job yet or are you still debating the way forward?

I agree with the comments about using an air nailer - that's what I used to build the barn in my FOG picture. I bought an Axminster one...

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-axminster-fn2890d-framing-nailer-prod564176/

I have seen the Paslodes in use and they appear to be brilliant but one fencing chap I spoke to said he would not use one for 1st fix on a building.

Peter

 

[Guy Ashley]

Hi Peter

In the end this job was a non runner, the client worked for Morgan Stanley Bank in the City and became a victim of a down sizing cull!!

In the end the advice re compressor guns seemed the most logical and I would have gone down that route,