#Pinner nails plus
The guys at Floyd were prompt in answering questions, the gun is still on their site for $166 plus shipping ($18 or so), and it came quickly. Really glad I bought it, and this gun in particular seems great. The headless pins don't mushroom mdf at all, and if you absolutly have to edge pin mdf, they barely split it in a longer piece.Īnyway, at this point, I'm sold. I'll definitely use it for the finer profiles on my built-up head casings, built-up base, and built-up crown. I'll still secure casing back edges with a 15g gun and 2 1/2" through the drywall, but if this will work to pin the casing to the jambs, it'll save a good bit of filling and sanding. We'll see once I really get going if this will be just right. Seemed to have plenty of holding power and covered reasonably well with a couple coats of paint. I fired some 2" pins through 3/4" mdf into the edge of a poplar board holding the gun perpendicular to the length of the mdf (in other words, perpendicular to the length of a casing leg) and didn't have any problems. I must say that while I still have yet to run casing and base, I'm impressed with it based on some test pieces. I'll get used to that in the process of building all our kitchen cabs and trimming out the house. One penetrated 1/2", but they're so fine it's like sticking yourself with a needle. I've inadvertently fired a few pins in mid-air, including into my hand. With this gun, and all other 23g pinners so far as I know, once you hold the safety trigger down, anytime you pull the primary trigger, it fires. I never use bump fire on any of my guns, so I've become a little careless about keeping a gun in my hand and mindlessly pulling the trigger without anything happening. The double trigger thing throws me, as I am so accustomed to depressing the nose, then pulling the trigger. The one big thing I need to get used to is the firing technique. No kickback at all, though a gun this small wouldn't have much. The gun has plenty of driving power and can handle headless and slight-head brads. The air fitting is included and has a swivel. The magazine is beautifully machined and glides really smoothly. The case is fairly thin blow-molded plastic, but the gun itself is really well-made.
Comes with two nose pads, anti-dry fire, glasses, oil. It is a 2" pinner that is said to be made in the same factory/molds as the Grex and a few others. I did go ahead and spring for a Fasco F23 CA24-50PB from Floyd Tool. I'm replying to all these responses in general and want to thank you all for your thoughts and input. Natural wood trims have grain that allows those thin pins to enter w/o too much trouble. I only use up to 1" pins-anything longer may be deflected and bent by the hard slick surface of MDF trims. Again, holding power of a pinner is minimal (must glue joints). MDF, edge nailing is verboten, it splits the layers of paper. In the right light, you'll maybe see a tiny blemmish as most all pinners I'm familiar with don't have a tip pad on the gun. Shoe mouldings can be fastened to base (if you absolutely don't want a larger nail). No fill for paint grade trim is wishfull thinking. Anything over that going through 1/2" drywall should be the 15 or 16 ga. It'll hold base and casings that are the usual trim thickness (9/16ths) well. brad nailer that goes to at least 2-1/8" and down to 5/8" is more of what you might want. In kitchens, it comes in handy for prefinished mouldings around the cabs.īut, it's holding power without a head on the pin is not something to just rely on the fastener itself.Īn 18 ga. For instance-angled opposing nailing of the scarf joints. While I use it most often in small returns, minimal thickness mouldings (accent).it's almost always in conjunction with glue, to hold in place while the glue sets. pinner is a nice complement to a finishers tools.
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