![]() Sometimes that hammer is just out of reach, and you really need to bump a stud over a bit to get it to line up properly. Metal Strike PlatesĪnyone that has been out in the field long enough knows that you do not always have the right tool at hand for the job. The lightweight tools quickly became favorites because they felt nimble, especially when having to do overhead work or anything that involved using the tool for hours at a time. All the nailers tended to have a slight bias toward the head of the tool when holding onto the handle, and this is to be expected given the tool’s shape-and the fact that you want the weight to be on the striking side. A very close second and third lightest goes to the Max SuperFramer SN883HR2 (7.47 lbs.) and the GripRite GRTFR83 (7.49 lbs.) Porter-Cable’s FR350MAG, despite its large size, is also a good choice since it is in the sub-eight pound range.īalance goes hand in hand with weight, and as you can imagine, lighter overall weight typically resulted in better balance. The heaviest was the Makita AN923 at 9.4 pounds, and the lightest was the Hitachi NR90AE (S) at just 7.37 pounds. There was just over a two pound spread in the weight of the ten nailers in this review. Since each manufacturer submitted only one product for review it should be easy to follow what tool we are talking about-plus you can think of it as being on a first-name basis.įollowing is a breakdown of what I consider to be major features of pneumatic framing nailers. As I work through this list of feature sets, I will typically just call out the model number once per product and then refer to just the brand names of the associated tool. Where the differences start to play out is in how the tools implement these and other features. A trigger is used to activate the firing of the nail with each having some method to change from bump (contact) mode to sequential fire modes.Each has a sliding safety system built right into the contact tip with some means of depth adjustment. ![]()
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