If you have a big task to perform, a nail gun is much more useful than a hammer. Hammers are good to sink a dozen nails, but if you are required to sink hundreds or possibly thousands of nails between start and finish, your arms will thank you for purchasing a nail gun. If you’re going to purchase a nail gun, though, you really should go for an air powered gun which could come with more power and superior overall quality. No manufacturer designs an all purpose nail gun; each type of nail gun is intended for a certain task. Below are explanations of three basic types of air-powered nail guns, each of them having a model presently available for sale. Don’t forget to look at the Air Power Tools.
Roofing nail guns are made specifically to shove nails through shingles and securely into your roof deck. Thanks to the astonishing amount of nails needed on a standard roof, most roofing nail guns use coiled nail cartridges which will hold as many as 300 nails at a time. One model of a well-made, high-performance air powered roofing nailer is the Bostitch RN46-1. This model provides contact as well as sequential trip firing, and an attached gauge to manage your shingle spacing. This tool sells on Amazon for $225. Another good model is the Air Nailers.
A framing nail-gun should give as much kick as a roofing nail gun, but needs to be less heavy and easier to lift, because the person should be able to nail with it from several different angles, including overhead work. Framing nail guns have either coil cartridges or straight stick cartridges, which only have room for about 20 to 40 nails. The stick cartridges are more time consuming, since you will need to switch it out quite often, but they reduce the overall weight of the model.
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Milwaukee’s 7110-202 Framing Nailer is an example of those stick nail guns that happens to be both lightweight and tough. Some of the features include an attached air filter which prevents dirt or debris from gumming up the tool, and a detachable no-mar tip to shield the surface from gouging. This framing nail gun can be in your garage for somewhere near $250.00.
A brad nail gun is even less hefty and is engineered more for accuracy than power. The adjustable depth setting and permanent no-mar pad on the front ought to be required on any quality brad nail gun, and added features including a low-nail indicator and trigger lock are worth searching for. DeWalt’s D51238K Brad Nailer offers each of these features and several more, jammed in a $95.00 gift box and secured with a 5-year warranty in place of a bow.
You would not want to use a framing nail gun to secure shelving to a china hutch. As a corollary, a brad nail gun would be practically useless for pushing nails through a truss beam. Finding the suitable tool for the job is relevant to air powered nail guns the same as any other tool.
