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the hitachi framing gun is great but it’s such a hard hitting gun my crew broke three of the driving pins in them the past couple of weeks. anybody know of a way to prevent this from happening or a better gun.
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Paslode Powermaster+ F350S
jim at great white
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Don't dry fire, or shoot teko's into heavy hangers.
Turn down the air when you do, to prevent hanger damage. Keep the air below 130 . Oil'm. Water trap. Sometimes I seem to get on a run of broken drivers. Sometimes one seems to be unbreakable. I know the dry fire is really hard on it, and hell on the bumper, too.
Don't bother with any other dinasour framing gun. The nimble machines are a little delicate, and need someone on the end who has bought a driver or two. Then they seem to last a little
longer...
what are you paying for drivers? Mine are $70.00
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Paslode P/M Plus.
Sam
*Hey Zack, say what are you boys nailing into? I own quite a few of those nailers and we break a piston driver maybe once every five years or so. When a replacement is necessary I do buy the Hitachi driver over the various generics available. The advice from Nathan W is sound, in my experience driver breakage almost always comes from nailing into heavy straps and hangers and dry firing which really does a number on the bumper. I have been using these nailers for over 16 years and while a better gun may exist or is being developed as we speak I haven't found a better one yet, and I have tried many many different brands and models over the years. I'm paying a $100.00 for the Hitachi piston driver locally.
*We've had one of the Hitachi's for three years and it saw about a year and a half of continuous use with an in-house crew. Since then, I've loaned it to several different crews and use it myself frequently for misc. framing.O-ring replacement is the only thing we've ever done to the gun and it works great. No driver problems.Kinda reminds me of the Hilti 350's we used to use for ceiling clips when I was in commercial drywall. We broke the barrel shrouds regularly at $95 a pop from Hilti, then I bought a couple of generics at $65 from screw supplier and I never replaced one from then on.Magic?
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when you say hard hitting, do you mean when your'e going into timberstrand/lvl? This stuff is so dense, I regularly turn up the pressure to 130. Says not to, but the firing really smooths out when the driver can fire all the way to the bumper. Driving into that lvl is like going into knots, and for some reason, the amount of jump and backlash into my arm tells me that this is hard on drivers too. This gun shouldn't be hard hitting, but very smooth on the action. Check bumper for wear. Also, many fastener suppliers here doing field work for cost of parts, when nails are delivered. Great service.
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the hitachi framing gun is great but it's such a hard hitting gun my crew broke three of the driving pins in them the past couple of weeks. anybody know of a way to prevent this from happening or a better gun.