If you have a large task to do, a nail gun is far more practical than a hammer. Hammers are good to sink a handful of nails, but if you intend to sink hundreds or possibly thousands of nails between sunup and sundown, your wrists will thank you for getting a nail gun. If you’re going to buy a nail gun, though, you may as well get an air powered gun which may come with more power and higher mechanical quality. No one makes a general purpose nail gun; each style of nail gun is designed for a specific application. Below are explanations of various kinds of air-powered nail guns, each of them including one air powered nail gun currently available to consumers. Don’t forget to look at the Air Power Tools.
Roofing nail guns are produced specifically to push nails through shingles and securely into a roof deck. Thanks to the excessive quantity of nails required on a regular roof, many roofing nail guns use coiled nail cartridges which can carry as many as 300 nails at once. One example of a long-lasting, high-performance air powered roofing nailer could be the Bostitch RN46-1. This tool offers contact in addition to sequential trip firing, and a user-friendly gauge to manage your shingle spacing. This nail gun retails on Amazon for $225. Another good model is the Air Nailers.
A framing nail-gun should have as much power as a roofing nail gun, but needs to be lighter and easier to maneuver, as the person should be able to employ it from quite a few different approaches, including overhead work. Framing nail guns employ either coil cartridges or less capacious stick cartridges, which just have room for between 20 to 40 nails. The stick cartridges are more time consuming, because you will have to replace it quite often, but they lessen the overall weight of the tool.
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Milwaukee’s 7110-202 Framing Nailer is a good representative of those stick nail guns which is both lightweight and powerful. Additional features include an handle-mounted air filter made to blocks dirt or debris from entering the tool, and a detachable no-mar tip to protect the wood from marks. This framing nail gun can be in your hand for somewhere near $250.00.
A brad nail gun is even less hefty and is engineered more for precision than impact. The adjustable depth setting and permanent no-mar pad on this tool ought to be required on any properly built brad nail gun, and added features including a low-nail prompt and trigger lock are worth paying extra for. DeWalt’s D51238K Brad Nailer has all of the aforementioned features and a few more, wrapped in a $95.00 gift box and secured with a 5-year warranty instead of a bow.
You would never want to rely on a framing nail gun to secure hardware to a china hutch. Conversely, a brad nail gun will be virtually useless for shoving nails through a roof deck. Getting the correct tool for the job relates to air powered nail guns just like every other tool.