Nail Gun

James M Sandbrook

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Pneumatic nail gun verses a battery nail gun.

Pneumatic can be cheaper than the battery operated options but you will need to buy a compressor to operate it.
You will need to attach it to a hose that is connected to the compressor and that means you are limited to the area where the compressor is.
There are versions with gas bottles now and that makes them useful.

Pneumatics tend to be lighter and shoot faster.

With the battery operated nail gun you get portability. You don’t have to worry about setting up a compressor, or being attached to a compressor.
And another advantage is if the nail gun uses a battery that other tools use then all you need to do is remove the battery from the other battery operated equipment and put it in your nail gun for the period of time that you need to use it.

Battery operated can run longer than the air versions, they don’t need to be oiled like the Pneumatics nail gun needs to be.
But they are heavier and tend to work slower than the Pneumatic versions. But technology is changingall the time, so the future could find the battery run nail guns as powerful and fast as the Pneumatics and gas versions.

I found that they can be used as a second set of hands. For instance if you are putting together some shelves, or making a box, you can punch in a few Brad nails to hold the project together while you use nail or screws to finish the job.
Also when putting up some shelves in the garage I used the nail gu to put the shelves on the wall then got the drill to put in pilot hole sand then putting the screws. It would have been much harder without putting in the Brad nails first to hold the shelves on the wall.
The Brad Nails are not strong enough to hold the shelves on the wall, and they are not sued for any sort of framing as they are small and thin and are not strong enough for that, but I have so far found the nail gun very helpful.

A nail gun can be used in the house to hold trimming and thin wood projects, as well as hold things in place before you do the final work to hold them in place securely.

When using a Nail Gun you can use the brad nails, especially the small headless nails , to hold the work in place while the glue sets.

Say for instance you have a project that requires many items and you don't have enough clamps to hold the all together.
A nail gun is perfect for this because you can glue the two surfaces and then shoot a few pins/nails in and that holds the job for the period of time needed for the glue to set. Thus saving you a lot of hassle.

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