BEST FRAMING NAIL GUN "DRIVE" MECHANISM/SYSTEM?
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For me it goes in this order, from best to worst.
1, Airline paslodes : great, reliable but only in a workshop environment.
2, De-Walts all electric flywheel method. Its simple generally reliable (although you still get the occasional jam its simple to sort) and it bump fires when set to do so. You hardly ever have to service them.
3, Hitachi cordless gas ram, now I've only used the second fix version of this but the system will work the sama and I find the switching on sequence to be irritating compared to the De-Walt..
7, Paslodes combustable gas with sparkplug system. Waay noisier, needs frequent rebuilds, unreliable but they are powerful. You couldn't give me one nowadays and I've used a lot of them. Same with Hitachis old ones which used the same system.
The sharp eyed amongst you will have spotted that my numbering system went from three to seven. Thats because I feel theres bound to be a few systems between the first three and Paslodes way. I really don't like em at all.
1, Airline paslodes : great, reliable but only in a workshop environment.
2, De-Walts all electric flywheel method. Its simple generally reliable (although you still get the occasional jam its simple to sort) and it bump fires when set to do so. You hardly ever have to service them.
3, Hitachi cordless gas ram, now I've only used the second fix version of this but the system will work the sama and I find the switching on sequence to be irritating compared to the De-Walt..
7, Paslodes combustable gas with sparkplug system. Waay noisier, needs frequent rebuilds, unreliable but they are powerful. You couldn't give me one nowadays and I've used a lot of them. Same with Hitachis old ones which used the same system.
The sharp eyed amongst you will have spotted that my numbering system went from three to seven. Thats because I feel theres bound to be a few systems between the first three and Paslodes way. I really don't like em at all.
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It’s a catch 22 I suppose. From the gas nailers available, Paslode/Spit are almost certainly the most powerful, well at least in the first fix models. They are known to be troublesome to many though, which really frustrating when it interrupts work progress.
Something I have noticed when on site though, if someone’s Paslode jams or acts up, I’ve found they aren’t using Paslode nails. I was talking to a mate last night, he runs a crew of five chippy’s and is always slating the Paslodes but, did say he doesn’t use Paslode nails as they are way too expensive, and that’s a very fair point, because compared to other brands they are.
Why can’t the Paslode nails be priced more competitively, they sell enough of them?
I have had sub contractors pricing the odd cut roof for me, and have thought every so often that the quotes were a bit high, probably because they use the Paslode nails and gas?
For power though, they’re hard to beat, never used the Hitachi but, heard they are almost a Paslode copy, possibly even made by Paslode? I recently saw somebody putting trims and architraves up with a cordless non gas Makita, it seemed a nice nailer. It would be great if they did a larger first fix version but, that would be difficult to achieve I’d imagine.
The power with these first fix nailers is paramount, and probably a first consideration in my my opinion, then again so is reliability, hence the catch 22.
When you think what it takes to put in 4” nails with a claw hammer, especially overhead, you realise the demands on these nailers.
Something I have noticed when on site though, if someone’s Paslode jams or acts up, I’ve found they aren’t using Paslode nails. I was talking to a mate last night, he runs a crew of five chippy’s and is always slating the Paslodes but, did say he doesn’t use Paslode nails as they are way too expensive, and that’s a very fair point, because compared to other brands they are.
Why can’t the Paslode nails be priced more competitively, they sell enough of them?
I have had sub contractors pricing the odd cut roof for me, and have thought every so often that the quotes were a bit high, probably because they use the Paslode nails and gas?
For power though, they’re hard to beat, never used the Hitachi but, heard they are almost a Paslode copy, possibly even made by Paslode? I recently saw somebody putting trims and architraves up with a cordless non gas Makita, it seemed a nice nailer. It would be great if they did a larger first fix version but, that would be difficult to achieve I’d imagine.
The power with these first fix nailers is paramount, and probably a first consideration in my my opinion, then again so is reliability, hence the catch 22.
When you think what it takes to put in 4” nails with a claw hammer, especially overhead, you realise the demands on these nailers.
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