The cordless brand nailer doesn’t need a compressor, hose, or expensive gas cartridges because it runs on 100% battery power.
The 18-gauge brad nailer has a brushless motor that makes it run longer and last longer.
The battery brad nailer has a small nose that helps improve the line of sight and the accuracy of nail placement (Compared to DEWALT DC608.
For precise countersinking of nails, you don’t need to use a tool.
To clear nail jams quickly and easily, you don’t need to use a tool at all.
LED lights that can be used for both lighting and diagnosing tools are becoming more common.
A tool-free selectable trigger that can be used for sequential or contact actuation modes.
Using the DEWALT DCN680 18 Gauge Brad Nailer, you can drive 18 Gauge nails from 5/8-inch to 2-1/8-inch. This makes it great for installing decorative molding, casing, kitchen crown molding, and shoe molding, as well as other things. With a DEWALT 20V MAX* Lithium-Ion battery and a brushless motor, the DCN680 is ready to work without having to use gas, a compressor, or a hose to get the job done. Use a pneumatic tool and a cordless tool to do both big and small jobs. The maximum voltage of the battery when it’s not being used is 20V. In the beginning, there is 18 volts.
Ok. It’s a lot more weight. There, that’s done.
For 16 years, I used only cordless guns made by Paslode. The Dewalt DCN680D1 is heavier and more bulky than the Paslode cordless guns I’ve used. I use a 3ah battery with it, and so far this has worked out well for me. As far as I can tell, I have a hard time getting used to how the gun is balanced or not. To put it another way, the Paslode looks smaller than this gun. It’s easier to work with when the gun is upside down or at a weird angle than with the Dewalt. I saw someone on YouTube say that a bigger battery could help balance the gun. Looseness is better for me than having to put more weight on my body.
The Dewalt gun fires very smoothly, and to me, it feels like I can place the tip more precisely on narrow work surfaces where accuracy is important, like when you nail mitered corners on 7/16 casing from the sides and you can’t afford a misfire that blows out the face. This gun has a smaller tip than the Paslode, which has a bigger tip. I like this shorter tip better. It was easy to drive multiple racks of 2″ nails into pine casing because there was no resistance. I haven’t tried it out on wood yet, but that is coming up soon at my current job. It will take a long time, but there will be a lot of poplar and red oak baseboard. Good luck with that.
When nails hit metal or concrete, the gun seems to go into a “shutdown mode” and won’t fire. The manual says that the two blinking lights mean that there is a jam or that the gun is telling you, “I don’t like what you just fired that last nail into.” In these situations, the magazine must be cleared and re-engaged, and there is a reset lever that needs to be used to restart firing. Nice. It has worked well so far. I also like that this gun won’t fire when your nails are short. Maybe Paslode has changed their newer guns to do the same. My current guns don’t, and in a noisy place, I sometimes can’t hear the difference in sound when the gun is dry firing.
There is a big advantage to the Dewalt over the Paslode. You don’t have to buy fuel cells with the Dewalt. They’re not cheap, but I didn’t mind the smell. Other carpenters have told me that the Paslode guns are too hard to use. They are. If you don’t clean them often, they will get dirty. If I use the Dewalt gun for a long time, I’ll find out how easy it is to service. When I need new parts for my Paslode guns, I don’t have to think about it. I can almost dismantle them with my eyes closed.
People can bump-fire this gun. When I’ve been working on trim carpentry for the last 24 years, I haven’t once thought that a trim gun should be able to bump fire at all. These are brad guns with an 18g weight. They can be used to cut wood. Finishing work is mostly about getting things right and not having to fill in too many nail holes. I’m done with that.
If you’re one of those people who have always used pneumatic nail guns and have finally given up your kinked, dirty hoses and noisy compressor, this is likely to be your first cordless nail gun and you’ll probably love it, except for the fact that it’s so heavy. You should, though. One of the best guns I’ve seen. It runs very well. Unlike the old cordless Senco guns from years ago, there is little to no time between fires with this one. The composite materials on the outside seem to be strong enough to last on a job site. The kind of thing you would expect from any Dewalt tool that you bu.
Weight is the only reason I didn’t give this book five stars. I often attach my cordless guns to my tool belt, and this extra weight isn’t something I care about, so I do it all the time. Still, I’ll be using my Paslode guns, but I’m glad I bought this Dewalt. It will still be used often.
