Recommend a Nail Gun

[freddiemercurystwin]

So I have a few projects in mind involving pallet wood, I already have a load I've reclaimed ready to use, first of which is a shoe storage unit, I need a gun that'll penetrate my pallet wood (typically 18-20mm) and about 10-15mm into the carcase, as that's an old bookcase so guess it needs to have the capacity to shoot something like 30mm nails. I won't be doing tons of stuff so budget is very important but I'm thinking for these kinds of projects it'll make them a breeze, not bothered about cordless, any suggestions please?

 

[RandomGrinch]

I'm not saying this is the best tool for the job (with only a 32mm max nail length), but it is cheap enough to have a play with:

Bauker 18 Gauge Straight Nailer Stapler 240V | Toolstation

• 18 gauge nails 15-32mm. Type 91 staples 15-25mm • Load capacity 50 nails or staples • Includes 100 nails, 100 staples

www.toolstation.com

I have used one for a decent amount of stapling of underlay and carpet to a staircase, as well as the odd bit of furniture mending.
It's performed faultlessly for me and has a surprisingly satisfying action!

 

[gonch69]

All depends on what you want to spend do you have a compressor or what batterie platform do you run on

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I'm not saying this is the best tool for the job (with only a 32mm max nail length), but it is cheap enough to have a play with:

Bauker 18 Gauge Straight Nailer Stapler 240V | Toolstation

• 18 gauge nails 15-32mm. Type 91 staples 15-25mm • Load capacity 50 nails or staples • Includes 100 nails, 100 staples

www.toolstation.com

I have used one for a decent amount of stapling of underlay and carpet to a staircase, as well as the odd bit of furniture mending.
It's performed faultlessly for me and has a surprisingly satisfying action!

Thanks that's kinda where I was headed budget wise, naturally at this end of the budget there's very little choice anyway.

 

[opps]

I once made the mistake of buying the Tackwise Duo 35

Tacwise Duo 35 Stapler Nailer 230V | Toolstation

• All metal professional magazine with locating nail rails. • Fires Tacwise brad nail strips (15-35mm) and 91 series staples (15-30mm) • Load capacity of 100 nails or staples • Quick release nose plate • Includes: Blow moulded case Replacement Tacwise Brad Nails. 15mm 18g Pack 1000

www.toolstation.com

It is complete rubbish. The brads frequently get stuck down the side of the firing pin and the flex is stupidly short.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Ugh! Stapler/nailers!!! They all suffer from the same problem IMHO: in order to drive a narrow crown staple with a 6mm crown, they need a driving pin which is 5 to 6mm wide. Not a problem with staples, but it means that when you drive 18 gauge pins with a 1.2 to 1.5mm (max width) head they'll leave a very noticeable 5 to 6mm long "gouge" in your material around the top of every pin, because obviously if you are driving pins you want to drive the pin heads 1 to 2mm below the surface, allowing you to fill them neatly and unobtrusively (this is what you achieve with an 18 gauge pinner). A 5 or 6mm long x 1.5mm groove in your material is hardly going to be unobtrusive, even if filled, but that said the OP may be intending to wrap the finished item in velvet or paint it in Sandtex (I'm actually being serious, here), in which cases it really wouldn't matter

 

[RandomGrinch]

This is the type of product that I like to buy from Toolstation/Screwfix. It's easy enough to pick something up and give it a go...
...and if it doesn't work out, package it up neatly and give it back!

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Picked up one of these Baukers linked to earlier in the thread, as predicted it does leaves a small indent but fires 32mm nails flush no problem. The step up from this is I guess at the minimum a £50 gun + a compressor however much they are so for £35 it's fine for what I have in mind. Time will tell I guess if it jams up or similar.

 

[opps]

Picked up one of these Baukers linked to earlier in the thread, as predicted it does leaves a small indent but fires 32mm nails flush no problem. The step up from this is I guess at the minimum a £50 gun + a compressor however much they are so for £35 it's fine for what I have in mind.

A freind who used to have compressor based 18G guns and latterly a Dewalt cordless pin gun now has the Bauker for light duty. He seems to be happy with it.

 

[^woody^]

Pallet wood is actually very soft, so control is better than power.

I nearly fell for the YouTube glamour of "thack, thack, thack, look how quick and easy this is" but just went for a push pin and hammer. It really is not much quicker or easier for a small number of projects or limited use - especially when having to deal with stuck brads.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I nearly fell for the YouTube glamour of "thack, thack, thack, look how quick and easy this is" but just went for a push pin and hammer.

Face it @^woody^ - at heart you're a Yorkshireman. That really is old school, although there's nowt wrong with old school IMHO. The (minor) problem is that nobody makes them any more, do they? So it's probably flea market or eBay, but not expensive - a couple of quid

That's an older wooden handled one (Woden). Later ones (Record, etc) tend to have plastic handles

 

[RandomGrinch]

nobody makes them any more, do they?

Would this do?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CROWN-110XW-Crown-Brad-Pusher/dp/B001C04FYO

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Yep, same sort of tool. I'd forgotten that Crown make them - the only thing I don't like is the price (circa £20)

 

[Mr Chibs]

Face it @^woody^ - at heart you're a Yorkshireman. That really is old school, although there's nowt wrong with old school IMHO. The (minor) problem is that nobody makes them any more, do they? So it's probably flea market or eBay, but not expensive - a couple of quid

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That's an older wooden handled one (Woden). Later ones (Record, etc) tend to have plastic handles

What size batteries does this take?

 

[Deleted member 174758]

On a busy day, it used to require three Shredded Wheat - plus a leather glove to try to avoid the inevitable blister on the palm after you use it a few thousand times in a day. That's why I preferred the wooden handled ones "back in the day"