Nail Gun - Finish Nails Video
VIDEO SUMMARY
Many household projects involve hammer and nails. If you are not careful in driving in the finishing nails in wood trim, you can created a defect in the wood that will be hard to repair. There are two ways to drive these finishing nails.
The old fashion way is with a hammer and nail set. You drive the nail in until the head is about 1/8" from the wood. Then, you use a nail set, properly sized, and drive the nail about 1/8" into the wood.
Second method is the use of powered nail guns. This model has an internal combustion engine. It uses gas, a battery and a spark plug to drive the nail. There are different style gas powered nail guns. One for the longer finish nails and another that drives smaller finishing nails to use in cabinet work, for example.
Try a powered nail gun on your next project. They do a great job and are easy to use.
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joan 15 Jul 2009, 00:41
Help! Using finish nail gun and want nails flush, don't have time to caulk
a million little holes before staining. The stain covers nail heads just
fine as they are very small. The problem is trying to get the nail gun to
flush nails, I have it set on flush and have practiced on scrap but,
variations in the wood cause it to either indent or not set all the way
flush. The result is a lot of countersinking I have to caulk, some I have
to punch on in, some shoot flush and are ok but you don't get uniform
consistent flush nails. Nail gun and air-compressor are new, seems to be
working properly, is this just the way finish nail guns are. Any tips or
help would be appreciated. Lots of stained trim to do. thanks!
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