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If you’re planning to add or remove walls in your house, this is what I bought. To speed things up, I thought a framing nailer would be the best way to do it. I also thought nailing by hand or using a cordless drill with construction screws would be too slow. That’s true. Note: I’m not a professional carpenter or framer. I’m a home owner.
This nailer is as good as most other framing nailers, and it works well. However, there are two things I don’t like.
Because of the depth gauge, I can’t sink all of my toe nails in. It doesn’t matter how deep you go when you nail your toes. The nails still stick out a quarter of an inch. Flat nailing is great because the heads can go as far as they can, which is great. This means I’ll have to finish the job with a hammer, which is a minor to moderate inconvenience, but I’ll be able to do it without it. Isn’t it fine to have 16-inch studs. There are exceptions, though. If I have to join two studs at the end of a wall or inside a closet where space is limited, I might not drive the toe nails all the way into them. Part of the reason I bought a framing nailer is so I can drive nails in places where I can’t fit the nailgun but can’t swing a hammer, like on the ceiling.
Second: jams, please. Having read other reviews, I already knew this. But now I know more about it, too. I think it can get stuck when there are only a few nails left. There might be a spring on the nail follower that makes it push the nails in front. If I add more nails before that point, there won’t be any jams. If I let it get too low, it almost always jams. How to get rid of the jam isn’t very clear, either. There is a nut next to the handle that holds the magazine to the main part of the nailer. You need to loosen it a little. When you loosen the nuts, you can slide the magazine a little to get it off of the nailgun’s front. The magazine has an oval-shaped opening there. It will either fall out on its own, or you can get needle-nose pliers in there to get it. Make sure to unhook the air hose before you start this.
There are two things to keep in mind when you use this nail gun. It is not oil-free. My other Senco nailers work well, but this one needs to be oiled. You should buy nailgun oil if you don’t already have it, and follow the instructions in the nailer’s manual about how to use it, if you do not already have it. Second, despite what the product description says, it can use nails with both 20 and 21 degrees. I thought so because of the small difference between them, but it “officially” supports both.
All in all, I like this nailer, and I don’t plan on returning it because of its flaws. I learned how to deal with the problems that came up.
