Rockworth Nail Gun Manual
You did not provide brand, but this broad spectrum will give you some indication. Framers operate, depending on the brand, on 45psi (2.5bar) to 120psi (8.3bar). Setting depend on several variables, that is thickness of the timber, hardness of the timber, lenght of the nail, to certain extend hardness and diameter of the nail.
You know that pressure is correct to material when nail head is flushed with surface of the timber or very slightly below. If nail stick above the surface, you need increase pressure (in stages! Do not jump from one extremity to another!), till you achieve flash suurface. If nail takes 'dive' and is more than thickness of the head below the surface, you need to decrease the pressure till you achieve this 'golden' level of flush or just below the surface. Sometime there is necessity to drive nails into totally unsuitable surface of timber (for example bamboo, yes, I know it sound ridiculous, but not everyone live in north america.), it is then good idea to spray nails with teflon or silicone oils, This treatment allow penetration even in bamboo, mahagony and other timbers harder than 12 in Jenkins scale without riping them apart. Albeit if I see you firing nailer in my workshop into mahagony I will fire you.:-) Hope this short intro into the noble art of framing and pneumatic nailer world will help you. Do not forget wearing protective glassess or face shield while using nailer!
You have only two eyes and there is no spares. Posted on Aug 15, 2010. Dewalt guns use between 70 and 120 psi. I use 100 psi on all framing guns when testing, however the nailer will last longer if you use lower pressure (only whats needed to drive nail into work, depending on type of wood). When too much pressure is used, extra force is absorbed by the lower bumper and nose area of gun. The address below is dewalt service and has all the info about your nailer. Just enter the model number and look for pdf file.
Check your model number for safety recall. Good luck www. Jun 22, 2012. Check gas expiry date, failing that reove four bolts from back and two from front nose and remove cylinder housing, check piston is free in cylinder and driver is right back, to check you have spark with battery in push and hold down switch arm just below fan and pull trigger you should see and hear the spark, if there is spark you may just need to clean arond spark plug to get a more positive spark, also check o-ring on fan housing as if this is damaged it will alow gas to escape and no ignite.
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I'm thinking the clipped head nails at about 75 - 90 mm long should be ok for my needs and in about £21 for 1100 (firmahold) These nails are at a 34deg angle so I was thinking easy to get hold of as I have a near me and I wouldn't be spending a fortune on nails The problem I have is some of the guns I was looking at uses different angle nails as far as I know paslode uses 30deg Axminster uses 28deg hitach uses 21deg etc are these othe nails not as common? Creative sound blaster serial number. I was just thinking that a place like would stock the most popular ones or are others just as easy to get hold of at a good price And if I was to say I want a gun that supports theses nail types what air nailers use 34deg nails?
And how critical is the angle say between 30deg and 34deg? I did read that some guns that are made for full head nails will also fire clipped head ones Advice on a reasonable make and any to avoid would be helpful to Thanks.
Click to expand.30 to 34˚ will be clipped head (D-head) nails, because you can collate them much more closely than full head (round head) nails. They are also cheaper than full head nails, but don't give such a strong hold as full heads. I use full heads for heavy fencing and roofing - clipped heads for just about everything else simply because they are a lot cheaper. The larger heads of full head nails mean that they are plastic collated as opposed to paper collated (clipped head nails). The angle must be lower to accommodate the larger heads which means your Hitachi 21˚ gun is almost certainly a full-head nailer.
Click to expand.Assuming that you are going down the compressed-air track and not gas nailers (e.g. Paslode, etc) there are a number of top quality nailer brands, e.g. Senco (pneumatic), Stanley-Bostitch (Stanley own Bostitch), Hitachi (pneumatic), Max, Paslode (pneumatic), deWalt (pneumatic), Bosch (pneumatic), etc. Quite a few of these firms also make gas-powered nailers, but they cost more and are more expensive to run, but they don't need compressors and air lines which in construction can be a major plus. These are all 'trade rated' brands which will last for years, and will have spares and support available for a very long time. Which you choose can be a matter of ergonomics - for example I have a couple of DW guns although I know others who don't like them at all.
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There are cheap brands such as Silverline, Clarke and Axminster as well - these are all Chinese bottom of the market models where you get what you pay for and if it ever goes wrong you'll have no spares or support, although for occassional DIY use they should be OK. Click to expand.Oddly enough the Ferm nailers I've seen seem to be slightly better finished than the run of the mill Chinese tools and at least there is some spares backup with their stuff although personally I have no experience of using them. Rockworth on the other hand appear to be a B&Poo house brand and are just plain cheap. I used to have a 16 gauge brad nailer of theirs as a backup and it was a downright horrible, but I can't say about the bigger nailers.
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My difficulty here is that as a tradesman I daren't take the cheap option lest it fails in the middle of a paying job. Call me risk averse, if you like. Thanks for all the advice I'm now looking for a good used bostitch air framer They come out one of the best in all the online reviews I have seen and the wire weld nails are easy to get hold of and are supposed to be better than the paper or plastic collated ones.? How much should I be paying for a good used gun? And is there anything I should look out for with a used bostitch? Also one last question about nails I'm intending to use plain smooth shank nails for the studwork and boarding on my summer house Will this be ok?
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(I say summer house it's going to be a home pub but don't tell the wife) And I'm assuming I would need the galvanised nails on the timber floor timbers? Click to expand.I don't use wire weld nails, just the plastic or paper collated depending on the head type required, so I can't say about pros and cons. Good used pneumatic nailer? Is there such a thing? Basically pneumatic nailers are industrial tools (very few building sites in the UK even permit pneumatic tools - they therefore tend to be a workshop tool, and hence scarcer secondhand), so they lead a very hard life as a rule. I most certainly wouldn't buy one on sight unseen and untested - you really need to check the tool is in good working order before committing and especially that there are no fine cracks around the inlet.
TBH I think you'll really have to look around very hard to find one which isn't 'fubarred'. If it looks old and worn, it probably is!