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A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a form of hammer used to drive nails into wood or other materials. It is usually driven by compressed air ( pneumatic ), electromagnetism , highly flammable gases such as butane or propane , or, for powder-actuated tools , a small explosive charge .
Coil nail – nails designed for use in a pneumatic nail gun assembled in coils; Common nail – smooth shank, wire nail with a heavy, flat head. The typical nail for framing; Convex head (nipple head, springhead) roofing nail – an umbrella shaped head with a rubber gasket for fastening metal roofing, usually with a ring shank
A Paslode nail gun. Paslode Impulse is a trademarked name for a cordless nail gun manufactured by Paslode.Cordless nail guns do not need an air compressor.Instead, they use what Paslode calls a "fuel cell", but is actually a very small two stroke engine which fires one ignition stroke for each nail driven, and reloads itself from a small metal can filled with pressurized flammable gas (a ...
Brad Nailer. Brad nailers fire thinner 18-gauge nails. The heads of these very thin fasteners conceal easily with just a tiny dot of filler. However, the longer the nail, and the tougher the ...
Bostitch was founded in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1896 by Thomas Briggs as the Boston Wire Stitcher Company. Briggs had invented a machine that stitched books from a coil of wire. The company began manufacturing various other kinds of staplers for industrial use. [4] It largely focused on commercial stitching machines.
As with their air-actuated cousins, powder-actuated guns have a muzzle safety interlock. If the muzzle is not pressed against a surface with sufficient force, the firing pin is blocked and cannot reach the load to fire it. This helps ensure that the gun does not discharge in an unsafe manner, causing the nail to become an unrestrained projectile.
Between 1996 and 2002 the US Army had no fatal wire strike accidents. [7] In civil helicopter operations, wire cutters were thought to be most effective for agricultural flights. [2]: 37–38 Of the 208 wire strike accidents in the 1970s, almost half could have been avoided with wire cutters and other recommended mechanical upgrades. [2]: 45
A needlegun scaler, needle scaler, or needle-gun is a tool used to remove rust, mill scale, and old paint from metal surfaces. [2] The tool is used in metalwork applications as diverse as home repair, automotive repair, and shipboard preservation.