The guys I am working with taught me this, so now my light guns (16 ga and down) are detailed out thus.
First, remove the nose safety, if there is one. Depending on the gun, use tape or whatever to enable firing without a safety. This gets the safety out of the way, and keeps it from marring any surfaces.
Then, use a grinder or belt sander to knock off and round over any and all sharp edges of the tool, starting with the nose. Don’t want no dings from sharp corners or edges.
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I dunno... I kind of like the safety on my finish nailer and it doesn't leave marks on stuff.
Are you kidding? I use a paslode trim nailer and it comes with a no mar tip. I like the safety on my guns. I dont need to speed fire trim in.
I wouldn't do it.
The guns I use (cept for the antique senco pinner) all have a no mar tip/safety. I'd buy a different gun b/4 I'd take the safety off. A good way to get hurt or to hurt someone else while playing with a mitre. Best case scenario, you put one into the patio door.
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I guess he found a way to get that sucker going again.
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Before you go modifying the safety think about this...
We had a guy on the job who taped back the safety on an 18 gauge brad gun, left it that way when he was done. Someone else walked by and bumped into the gun and it fired because the safety was defeated. It put a 2" brad into his leg, through a muscle, and into his bone.
Serious pain and 3 weeks out of work... definitely not worth it... Buic
Sphere's got one he might give you for parts.
Ask him?
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I would name that gun a Stinger!
If, at first, you fricascee, fry, fry a hen!
I have an older style Airy brad nailer that uses a double trigger system instead of a depressed-tip safety. I like it a lot because I can place brads quite accurately without a safety tip in the way. I typically put one or two thicknesses of masking tape on the tip to prevent marring, as well as learning to push lightly. That's a good idea to sand the harsh edges off the tool, though. I'm heading out to do that right now!
You got the orange one? I have that double trigger one too..at first I hated it and taped the second trigger back, but since the tape wore out I am back to stock setting, and adjusted.
Good little gun fer the $. Had mine 15 yrs or so. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Dang, sounds like I missed out on a neon classic. Mine is basic black and silver, but it does have an orange case! Had it 5 yrs or so, still running strong with no repairs needed yet. It even came with small packs of 6 different size brads from 3/4" to 2" all tucked into built-in slots in the case. Long since used those up, but I make sure to keep the slots full nonetheless, so many times I've been on a job and needed a different size brad to what I thought I'd need. Don't need many, just a few to get something unforeseen completed. Tada, there they are. Saved my butt a good few times.Lignum est bonum.
First, remove the nose safety, if there is one. Depending on the gun, use tape or whatever to enable firing without a safety. This gets the safety out of the way, and keeps it from marring any surfaces.
Then, use a grinder or belt sander to knock off and round over any and all sharp edges of the tool, starting with the nose. Don't want no dings from sharp corners or edges."
Stinger,
Exactly to the tee what I did to my Bostich years ago. I also have a whole collection of pneumatics from my deceased grandfather that are probably 70 years old, and that's how they made them back then.
WSJ
I really do like the idea of a gun with as little to damage it's surroundings as possible.
Having said that I worked with a trim carp who had a 2-1/2" 15 g finish nail hit a rib below his nipple, angle down and traveled into his big colon. The operation scar looked impressive--from sternum to the hernia region. I've even changed over to a safer trigger after that.
:-)
In another thread I read something like:
You must become one with the gun... and
You cannot become one with the gun until you have shot yourself a few times...
My little spin on the situation is that I don't need to shoot myself a few times with each of my guns.... a few times was enough and being grazed does count. All my guns have the safty intact.
A quick Google found these: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4103037/detail.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3685791.stm
http://www.personal-injury-lawyer-referral.com/pages/nail_gun_accident.html
and for a little humor:
http://www.flurl.com/featured/Nailgun_Accident_Commercial_399.html
Getting rid of the sharp edges does sound like a good idea though.
Kewl, you need to send that one in to FHB, they can put in the all time favorites, right next to one where the guy screwed his boots to the bottom of sheetrock buckets to make stilts<G>Seriously, all of my nail guns have no-mar tips, and on our pinners, patches of tape on the safety nose (for a bumper, not deactivation) and on the nose, work fine.When I'm back nailing stair risers, sometimes it is hard to get the old Bostich stapler to fire at an angle or close to an edge (and dang, I hate it when both prongs of the staple just skim the top of the tread:-0(, I just wrap one of those big hinge protecting rubber bands around the front of the gun. Easy to take off, and the safety is still there.Aren't you the guy who hires people with out insurance<G>? What in the gosh darn golly have you done to Rez?
Aren't you the guy who hires people with out insurance? Not any more. Certs right up front, way up front.
Doing some porch work outside week before last, I dropped my 15 gage PC gun, bending the safety, losing the safety spring, and breaking some little safety damper part. Duct taped the safety back (easy with no spring) and she was set up as a no-safety spiker.
Guy I'm with, all of whose guns from 15 ga down are safety-free, said, "you shoulda done that a long time ago."
I just finished fixing it with parts ordered from some parts website. New everything, including the long-ago-lost no-mar tip.
Funny we have this post today from you. Coincidence, actually.
Shot myself today right through the finger with a .131 x 3-1/4 framing nail. First time ever through anything. I have nicked myself before.
Doing the old hold-the-joint-while-placing-the-first-spike routine, the nail glanced off a knot, and went right through my adjacent left index finger, the thick part right down near the web, under the tendon and adjacent the bone. Missed the bone.
Whew!
Glad to hear you are OK... To tell you the truth, I worry more about my eyes than anything else...
Aw man..... imagine catching a deuce and a half 15 ga in the eyeball? Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. Squirming just thinking about it.
No kidding, so much stuff bounces off my glasses, sometimes it's enough to make me glad I have to wear 'em...yeech. What in the gosh darn golly have you done to Rez?
And they add so much character.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Yeah, I gotta pick up one of Beckman's repair kits<G> What in the gosh darn golly have you done to Rez?
http://store.summitracing.com/default.asp?target=partdetail.asp&part=11209
I use the plastic grip dip for my contact tips. Works pretty good. Lasts longer than the cheap plastic ones that come on the tools. It still dents the wood if you push too hard.
Stacy's mom has got it going on.
>> so much stuff bounces off my glasses, sometimes it's enough to make me glad I have to wear 'em...yeech. <<
For some reason on first impression basis, I tend to associate wearing glasses with a higher level of intellengence. I don't wear glasses though ;-)
OTOH - don't wear the ones with heavy black frames, don't wear them crooked on your face, and don't put white tape on them either as padding or for a repair... Unless you also like to "wear" pocket protectors, like to wear your belt above your belly button, and like to button your top button :-)
Maybe in a way you are lucky.... I'm constantly having a conflict with myself about wearing safty glasses, and realistically do it about 1/5th as much as I should. It gives me the creaps though when, for example, I see those tile guys using a grinder to cut ceramic tile with no glasses.... some of that stuff is like glass...
Lordy lordy indeed.
These injury threads are not easy for me to follow sometimes.http://www.costofwar.com/
To all you guys looking for a new finish gun , Bostitch now offers profile tips with all their finishing guns ( 15, and 16 gauge). The gun comes with 4 different tips, good for different type of molding, see attached link
http://www.bostitch.com/default.asp?TYPE=STATICLEFT&PAGE=PR_FN16250K2.htm&LEFT=left_news.htm