Initial impressions Dewalt Cordless Nailers (Framing & Finishing)

[Kev]

Anyone tried the DCN694 PPN yet?

[member=61727]Job and Knock[/member] I will grab one as soon as they hit the shelves in Oz. I'm curious how the hole centring works in terms of speed and precision.

 

[Job and Knock]

Anyone tried the DCN694 PPN yet?

I'm curious how the hole centring works in terms of speed and precision.

Me too.  They've been on the market here for about 4 or 5 months, but I've yet to see one in the flesh. I could really have done with one earlier this year when we were doing masses of joist hangers, but at that time we couldn't find anyone who had them in stock so we just hand nailed  [eek]

My new DCN660 arrived today and went straight into use on some MDF ( [tongue]) skirtings. A great improvement on the faithfull old DC616 it's replacing

 

[Lbob131]

This was a review  of the DCN 690....

It  has a switch on the side  that allows you to switch between  bump mode  and trigger  mode.
Why does the DCN 692  not have this feature  and why  is the manual  saying it  can't be done? Is the  DCN 692 model inferior  to  the DCN 690?
And is  bump  mode  really necessary  at all on a cordless nailer that has a limited  magazine  capacity?

I don't think  the bump mode  on air coil  nailer's  could ever be rivalled. You'll notice that "ultimate handyman"  displays  the bump  mode  near the end of the  video  and its  quite slow.

 

[Job and Knock]

It  has a switch on the side  that allows you to switch between  bump mode  and trigger  mode.
Why does the DCN 692  not have this feature  and why  is the manual  saying it  can't be done? Is the  DCN 692 model inferior  to  the DCN 690?

The DCN692 certainly does have that feature:

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The bump/sequential selector is the little button towards the rear upper part of the motor housing with the three nails logo on it

And is  bump  mode  really necessary  at all on a cordless nailer that has a limited  magazine  capacity?

It can be exceedingly useful to a professional carpenter, e.g. when nailing spruce flooring panels (we used two thicknesses of 18mm nailed at 100 or 150mm centres recently on one job with about 250 boards to go down - compressors are not permitted on a lot of jobs over here and there's no such thig as a gas/cordless drum nailer is there?)

I don't think  the bump mode  on air coil  nailer's  could ever be rivalled. You'll notice that "ultimate handyman"  displays  the bump  mode  near the end of the  video  and its  quite slow.

Probably not, but it's a moot point to many because many sites ban the use of compressors for nailing - or make it so awkward that it's not viable, believe me. The DCN692 is a dual speed tool whereas the DCN690 is single (slower) speed - in high speed mode it can and will bump faster than the DCN690.

As you've mentioned UHM, that's where I posted a (written) review of the DCN692 a few months back (mostly correct). It's here, if you are interested. Sorry, but I don't make videos.

 

[Lbob131]

I use a paslode framing nailer. Cheap  nasty nails cause the most problems  I find.
But gasless certainly does appeal. 

Bostitch  seem to have entered this market with  the BF33-2-U gasless  framing nailer.
Nails are  collated at 33 degrees  according to their website. Not much info anywhere  on it.
What do you think?

 

[Job and Knock]

Bostitch is (and for many years has been) a Stanley subsidiary. deWalt is a Black & Decker subsidiary. The layout and placement of controls on that Bostitch gun seem nearly identical to the DW guns. I reckon it's like the "Stanley" cordless tools which have appeared in the sheds in the last few years - it's a rebadged and slightly restyled version of the DW guns. What's the betting that the batteries aren't compatible, though?

 

[demographic]

I've bad my two speed framer for a while now and I can't see myself ever going back to Paslodes.
Too noisy and unreliable.

Although I've not been on constant framing jobs I reckon Ive maybe put eight thousand nails through it and although it has jammed a few times its been dead easy to just undo the two front allen bolts slightly and let the pin back which allows the nail out.

Was nailing slatted fencing on a while ago and got somewhere like eight hundred 50mm nails in with one  charge.
Good enough for me.
Gas nailers are on the way out as far as I'm concerned.

 

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Bostitch/Dewalt/Porter-Cable, etc are all products of Stanley-Black & Decker company.
Bostitch and Dewalt are apparently the premium brands in the mix, with Porter-Cable marketed to the DIY market (save a few of the pre- Black & Decker days).

If Bostitch gets a tool, Dewalt seems to get it in yellow and slightly restyled.

 

[charley1968]

Excellent write-up on the framing nailer [member=61727]Job and Knock[/member] . Thankee for that!