I have a Passload framer with a blinking green light. I did not see anything in the manual about blinking green. The fan comes on when you press it down but it wont shoot. I also put a freshly charged battery and a new gas cartridge. Help please.
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Hi Lambo! Long time lurker here, but I own a couple of Passloads - one is 4yrs old the other 3yrs old. Blinking Green is good. Means the Battery is OK. If bat is good and fan comes on but it does not fire it could be the cartridge is empty or not seated properly. It could also mean that the spark plug is fouled and cannot produce an adequate spark. Passloads are pretty touchy sometimes if not cleaned regularly.
I have also experienced "new" cartridges go bad on the shelf. Not often, but it has happened. Try another cartridge and if that does not work you may have to take it apart and clean it.
Good Luck
Bob
You can tell if the gas cartridge is bad: pull it out of the gun, and depress the little tube coming out of the "hat" on top of the cartridge. You should get a little spurt of gas released. If not, get a new cartridge.
Bob Chapman
Lambo: Also check the expiration date on the bottom of the gas cartrage. And again they don't like to work in cold weather. Also check to see if the firing pin in retracted. Regards, Dale Buchanan
This may be a dumb question but an easy fix.
Did you push the nozzle onto the gas cartridge? When I buy new ones the nozzles have to be pressed on until they snap on.
lambo,
Paselode fuel cells come with the tops partially installed but not fully seated, check to ensure the top is seated all the way on, the blinking green means the fan motor is running (exhausting the spent fuel), when the flashing stops and you get a steady green light the exhaust cycle is complete(and the fan will stop). If you are getting a red light coming on during your attempt to fire the gun, then your battery needs to be recharged, also check to be sure you have installed the fuel cell properly,(with the white "nozzle" pointing towards the front of the gun and down into the "v" shape located there.
Geoff
If the gun is dirty the piston may be in the down position, the cartridge may not installed incorrectly. I have two and I dropped one on them, The door that holds the cartridge in place sometimes slips and gives me the same problem you're desrcibing.
FWIW. I had one and had similiar problems, but started with the fan not working. It was an old grey one I picked up on the cheap. Worked for a while and crapped the bed. Changed fuel cell, battery, still no good. I cleaned it by taking it apart. Put it all back together, still no good, wouldn't fire but the fan worked like a champ.
Ended buying a new one and giving the bad one to a friend. He couldn't get it to work and took it to a shop where as soon as he saw it said the wrong fuel cartridge was installed. The fuel cartridges come with different colored o-rings for different applications. The one I had installed was not seating properly because it wasn't for that particular pasload gun even though the one I put in it was made by pasload. You may check to see if the correct fuel cartridge is installed. I assumed all the fuel cells were interchangeable.
Obviously I had two problems, the fan worked after a good cleaning but wouldn't fire until the correct fuel cartridge was installed. Ole' bud got a pretty good deal!
Semper Fi
red carbuerator for framers and yellow for trimmers. short cartridges for pinnerss.You can exchange the carbuerators between trimmer and framer. By that I mean if I have a bunch of red top fuel ccells and need a new one for my trimmer, I can take the carbuerator off the old fuel cell and snap it onto a red fuel cell or visa verse. I got that from Paslode tech guy so I suspect your only problem was carbuerator. The framer needs more than two times as much fuel to drive the larger nails from the larger displacement ccylinder. Conversely, if you use the red in a trimmer, you will have too much fuel, a ricch mix in the cylinder and equally unlikely to fire, but if iut did sshoot, it could damage the gun.BTW, the old black/grey guns in the framer model were a piece of crap. I spent a small fortune in repairs and rebuilds on mine and it is still gathering dust. My old black trimmer remains one of the favorite tools on the job. I now have new orange of both models that are pretty flawless.Now that I think of it, 90% of the time when ther isa a failure to fire, one of the guys has changed fuel cells and forgotten to snap the carbuerator tight all the way onto the cell. It is left up for shipping and storage to prevent leakage and for safety reasons.
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Thanks for the info! That is exactly what I did. I had used the red fuel cell and the gun wouldn't fire. You would think the fuel cells would be all the same. For instance, jet the fuel cell as big as the thirstiest tool the manufacturer has in the inventory, the framer. Then have the different guns change the size of oriface accepting the fuel. Have the o-rings all seat the same. This would be in my opinion cheaper for the manufacturer and easier for the consumer. Unless of course they are hoping people will purchase wrong fuel cells generating more sales and service or they think people are a little smarter than we really are.......... :-)
Semper Fi
Also, be sure you psuh down far enough to seat the firing head all the way. Occasionally, I'll push mine far enough to get the fan spinning and the fuel smell but no fire - gotta push it just that much further to get it to fire. My framer and straight finisher are going on 8 years old - and I bought them at HD as reconditioned units back then - and they still work great for weekly use.
Gotta keep them clean though.
-Norm
blinking green is normal for Paslodes.
The book that comes with it covers maintanance and leaning procedures. Read it through. There is a simple easy to follow troubles shooting guide. If that does not get you up and running, there is an 800# to contact tecxh help and they are very good at troubleshooting via phone for the complex problems.
Sounds to me like you haven't cleaned it
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Weaknesses of these guns are in few locations.
One is switches. The switch at the toe or shoe is actually inside the gun a ways. Gunk in the sliding mechanisim makes it hard to operate that switch. The other switch is a rubber coated trigger switch (again deep within the gun) that is succeptable to moisture when the rubber bag breaks around the switch that is the trigger. It sounds like the bubble switch is the issue. but that is a guess.
The other weakness is the battery connection. You'd think it is the clip inside the body of the gun..instead it is the battery itself. The metal connecting points seem to have some cruddy plateing job over steel or plastic. Over time the plateing rubs away leaving a good battery with a poor connection. Look at the battery ends. If it looks rough and not silvery then that could be the problem. Generally a battery reseating cures it. There is enough power to run the fan with a mediocre connection but not enough to fire the gun. If you get no power, then it runs fine again, the battery is generally the problem.
Both of those switches and the internal battery clip are part of a really nifty harness assembly that comes out (with a couple screws)in one big plastic piece from the gun. Nifty & fifty seem to rhyme.. It could be more$.
Last quirk is an August problem. When it is real hot the excess hot melt glue that sticks the nails together gets gummed up in the slide mechanisim. Oil helps but eventually you have to take it all apart. If you don't get a full clear ie the shoe doesn't come all the way out after a nail is shot then it won't fire again. If you hook the side of the shoe on a stud and pull (and the gun clicks) it should fire the next nail when you want it to.. If that is the problem you probably have residual glue in the slide. (this is an audible exhaust difference when this is a problem.)
It has its moments but it still beats dragging around hoses compressors and worrying about power for the compressor.