Semi-auto Nail Guns: Quick-draw fire requests for safer triggers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 02/02/2003 10:17 PM | Virginia Baldwin Gilbert

[rface]

Some leaders in the construction industry want workers and contractors to change their trigger-happy ways

[Puppage]

Some carpenters have nailed a foot to the floor

So? Some carpenters have whacked their thumbs with a hammer....so, let's BAN HAMMERS!! If it saves just ONE thumb

[ClearCase_guy]

We've got to keep working on making the world safe from any possibility of pain and suffering for either humans or animals. We deserve a risk-free existence. It's (sniff) for the children!

[dalereed]

Sounds like union featherbeading to me.

Personally I wouldn't have a sequencial one, nailer or stapler.

[CurlyDave]

In contrast, a sequential trigger requires that users place the gun in position, then pull the trigger each time they want to shoot a nail.

Anyone who has ever used a nail gun quickly discovers that if the gun is placed against the spot where the nail is wanted and then the trigger is pulled the nail is not driven in all the way.

Recoil moves the nail gun away from the board and leaves about an inch of nail sticking out which must be hammered in.

The great advantage of "bounce nailing" is that the gun is moving toward the board and its momentum can balance the recoil so that the nail is driven in all the way by the nail gun.

It takes about 15 minutes of practice to get the hang of this so it comes out just right.

We are now going to have a new safety rule which lowers productivity.

[G-Bear]

Cooper's third Rule of (nail) Gun Safety:

"Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are
on the target."

[grobdriver]

Many contact-trigger guns are capable of firing nine nails a second, said Jim Nolan one of the carpenters who conducted the interviews for the study. "Why would you need to do that?" said Nolan, who built houses for 42 years without ever using a nail gun.

What total hooey! This fellow condems his opinion in his own statement.
Anyone who has ever actually used a nail gun knows that even bang nailing requires the gun come back down on the head. It's not like you can keep contact with the surface being nailed, even if you wanted to.
No matter what manufacturers do to make things "safe", the end users (especially if they make their living with the tool) will go around the safety to make using the tool fast and efficient.
The first thing off the table saw is the guard. You can't see through it when cutting.
Chainsaw? The tip guard comes off 'cause you can't plunge cut with it on.
Name a tool with a "safety" addition - I'll show you a safety addition on the ground or left in the box.

[al baby]

I put a 3 inch nail though my finger i put a circle around it and took care of it at lunch guess what i have not done it again if you are mindfull nail guns are safe and fun at lunch we have target practice on cardboard targets My weapon of choice is a senco although the Binford 1000 turbo nailer gets some praise

[CFW]

...The first thing off the table saw is the guard. You can't see through it when cutting. Chainsaw? The tip guard comes off 'cause you can't plunge cut with it on. Name a tool with a "safety" addition - I'll show you a safety addition on the ground or left in the box.

Honey, is that you? If not, you sound just like my husband.

[Minnesoootan]

I want to see the injury to total nails driven ratio first...

[Rollee]

How can I work in a comment about a 21 nail-gun salute?

[al baby]

Oh yeah the guard on the bottom of my skill saw 77 is pined back for fast cuts and no binding

[dalereed]

I had a lathing superintendant years ago that was riding an apprentice unmercifly that was nailing off on the exterior and the apprentice got so pissed that he turned the stapler on the superintendant and punched about 20 7/8" staples into his ass before he jumped off the second floor scaffold!

[al baby]

Also i rarley use goggels one customer of mine asked why i dont when i was trimming up a solid oak door worth about 1200 dollars and i said oh no problem i just close my eyes
he gave me a funny look and went and told his wife who gave me a ration of it

[woofie]

"Nail Guns Don't Nail People ...People Nail People"

[al baby]

I got airnailed into a andy gump once my buddy came over with 2/4s and boarded it up it was funny as hell i put his saw blade in backwards he had a hell of a time for a while

[dalereed]

See post #13!

[wbill]

Binford 1000? I don't think so, Al. Unless it's for a 21-Nail-Gun salute.

[par4]

So he built houses for 42 years without using a nail gun, if he's still building today he's either not making any money, paying his workers minimum wage, or only working for people who have the time to wait for him to finish. In today's world, you need power tools like nail guns to speed up the job. A couple of days less labor is money saved and a happy customer.

A roofer that I know didn't buy a nailer until three years ago. He preferred to hand nail, but his customers wanted the jobs done in one or two days, not a week. Now, he can't compete without power tools.

In any event, most pneumatic (and gas powered) nailers sold today can be set for either contact or sequential trip. Then again, job site awereness is key to safety. Pretty soon, you'll be seeing a return to hand saws, if the nanny state has its way.

[Hatteras]

oooh, I HATE when that happens...