Post by reflector on Mar 11, 2019 21:02:22 GMT -5
Just some thoughts on the one I recently bought:
Bought one out of curiosity (and at a good price) because I already had the 18V Hitachi batteries and got a hell of a bargin on the 36V Multivolt packs and decided I could have more than just 12V and 18V Bosch for my battery platforms.
It has something like the Bostitch safety where depressing the trigger pushes the tip out (the tip itself doesn't need to be "depressed"). If the tip is held firmly against something it fires. Do note that if you don't hold the tip down well enough, you will have inconsistent sinking depths because when you depress the trigger the pin nailer gets pushed away unless you hold it sufficiently against the material.
Need to hold the nailer's tip against work firmly (potentially denting softer materials like the softwood in finger jointed trim board unless you swap to the wide tip) or it seems not to sink below the surface. Mostly from recoil
Doesn't have the "instantness" of the bigger 18 gauge and framing nailers. I found out that the pin isn't in a retracted state, it just quickly pulls it back and drops it back down. Brushed motor, you see the sparks.
Doesn't seem like I can cycle it faster than I can accurately place another nail.
If you remove the clip it fits the giant Multivolt batteries available in the US. The clips from the Multivolt tools fit onto it, there's a slight bend to allow the wider battery to fit.
Stands on the battery just fine, unlike the 18 gauge nailer.
Heavier than my Bosch 23 gauge pin nailer by a pound but no annoying hose to dangle around. Stick with the tiny 3Ah battery and don't bother putting anything heavy on it. It does feel heavier if you hold it in the air for a long time.
Likes Grex pin nails. Supposedly it jams a lot but I've yet to fire it into hardwood yet. 1-3/8" Grex pins sunk into softwood just fine and I had to back off the depth or it'd leave the tiny dent from the driver going too deep into the surface. Does fine in douglas fir endgrain.
Dry fire lockout kind of sucks: It stops at around 20(?) pins or so. It looks about a 1cm/half inch stack. If you look on the back side of the magazine you'll see a cover held on by two screws. That's the dry fire lockout microswitch. For some reason they didn't move that thing up higher so it locks out at 20... Stupid decision I think, they could have had it trip off at 5 or less and it'd be nice to use. It probably would be a pain to get the remains of the pins out.
I like it. It could be more refined with modifications like less spring force on the moving tip safety, setting it up like the rest of the Hitachi nailers where it doesn't have to wind up to fire (even if it does it fast enough) and to have the dry fire kick in when you actually run out of nails. It does have a translucent plastic magazine and the red follower for it is pretty clear so you can tell when you're running low.
Bought one out of curiosity (and at a good price) because I already had the 18V Hitachi batteries and got a hell of a bargin on the 36V Multivolt packs and decided I could have more than just 12V and 18V Bosch for my battery platforms.
It has something like the Bostitch safety where depressing the trigger pushes the tip out (the tip itself doesn't need to be "depressed"). If the tip is held firmly against something it fires. Do note that if you don't hold the tip down well enough, you will have inconsistent sinking depths because when you depress the trigger the pin nailer gets pushed away unless you hold it sufficiently against the material.
Need to hold the nailer's tip against work firmly (potentially denting softer materials like the softwood in finger jointed trim board unless you swap to the wide tip) or it seems not to sink below the surface. Mostly from recoil
Doesn't have the "instantness" of the bigger 18 gauge and framing nailers. I found out that the pin isn't in a retracted state, it just quickly pulls it back and drops it back down. Brushed motor, you see the sparks.
Doesn't seem like I can cycle it faster than I can accurately place another nail.
If you remove the clip it fits the giant Multivolt batteries available in the US. The clips from the Multivolt tools fit onto it, there's a slight bend to allow the wider battery to fit.
Stands on the battery just fine, unlike the 18 gauge nailer.
Heavier than my Bosch 23 gauge pin nailer by a pound but no annoying hose to dangle around. Stick with the tiny 3Ah battery and don't bother putting anything heavy on it. It does feel heavier if you hold it in the air for a long time.
Likes Grex pin nails. Supposedly it jams a lot but I've yet to fire it into hardwood yet. 1-3/8" Grex pins sunk into softwood just fine and I had to back off the depth or it'd leave the tiny dent from the driver going too deep into the surface. Does fine in douglas fir endgrain.
Dry fire lockout kind of sucks: It stops at around 20(?) pins or so. It looks about a 1cm/half inch stack. If you look on the back side of the magazine you'll see a cover held on by two screws. That's the dry fire lockout microswitch. For some reason they didn't move that thing up higher so it locks out at 20... Stupid decision I think, they could have had it trip off at 5 or less and it'd be nice to use. It probably would be a pain to get the remains of the pins out.
I like it. It could be more refined with modifications like less spring force on the moving tip safety, setting it up like the rest of the Hitachi nailers where it doesn't have to wind up to fire (even if it does it fast enough) and to have the dry fire kick in when you actually run out of nails. It does have a translucent plastic magazine and the red follower for it is pretty clear so you can tell when you're running low.