16-Ga. Finish Nailer Roundup, Part Two

What features do you look for when shopping for a finish nailer? In this video, Rick Arnold enumerates what he considers secondary features of the more than a dozen finish nailers he evaluated for Fine Homebuilding. Rick makes some valuable recommendations here. For example, if you work with a lot of stain-grade material, go with an oilless nailer. If you tend to keep your nailers for years, you'll need one that clears a jam easily because more jams tend to occur as guns age. You also might value a nailer with a lock-out function that prevents dry-firing on millwork.   

If you want to know which features were on Rick's must-have list, watch Part One of the roundup or, to see Rick's write-up on each tool, read Tool Test: 16-Ga. Finish Nailers from Fine Homebuilding issue #200 (December 2008/January 2009), pp. 48-52.

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(1 user review) Bostitch - FN16250K2 16-Ga. Finish Nailer
The Bostitch FN16250K-2 finish nailer is a lightweight and well-balanced side-loading tool with an anti-dry-fire feature, a good line of sight, a quality no-mar tip, and nice depth-adjustment feature

(1 user review) Hitachi - NT65M2 16-Ga. Finish Nailer
The Hitachi NT65M2 16-ga. finish nailer is a comfortable, top-loading tool with a unique air duster feature that allow you to bypass the nailing function to expel air to clear dust and debris from the work surface in preparation for the nail

Paslode - T250S-F16 16-Ga. Finish Nailer
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Ridgid - R250SFA 16-Ga. Finish Nailer
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Craftsman - 18175 16-Ga. Finish Nailer
The Craftsman 18175 16-g. finish nailer is a simple solid mangesium-body tool with a rear-loading magazine