Adam Savage's Guide to Staplers and Nail Guns!
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Adam gives a primer on the different kinds of nail guns and staplers you may encounter in the many different facets of making they're used. From the ubiquitous hand-powered T50 staple gun to versatile pneumatic staplers Adam favors for box-making, here's how to choose the right stapler for your own builds--and the ways in which to be mindful and careful while operating these powerful tools!
Shot and edited by Jerico DeGuzman
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That was from me. That was my intention. It's almost impossible to find a transformer small enough and powerful enough to power a tool and fit in the battery housing. I'll be sending you a new 18v nail gun as soon as I can find one
The edison plug was intended to be used with an extension cord as to not be tied next to the bulky transformer
I tried kiwico for 2 months, it was a box of cheap junk. Literally $4.00 in components.
Another safety concern from a hobby forester: be mindful of knots in the wood. They can be incredibly tough. Some knots can withstand an axe, let alone a nail or a staple from a pneumatic gun. Moral is: knots can deflect nails, bending them as they're driven into the wood, and as Adam says, crave your sweet flesh. Just another reminder to think twice before pulling the trigger
Knots and other fasteners too!!! A common one is installing trim with a Brad nailer, and hitting a drywall screws! The Brad will often curl around and come right back out! Very dangerous if you're pushing the trim with your fingers close to where you're putting in the nail.
@@pierreburton4523 Good point!
@@atlehassum1492 This is how the brad hit my thumbnail. Red Oak knots do not always look like knots.
Guy I used to work with had a framing nailer deflect out of a rafter and bounce off his wrist bones. He didn't let go of the rafter, and I was like "that seems like a lot of blood!?"
#truefacts
And certain lumbers are nearly like concrete, no matter what you use on it. Native oak, around here, seasoned, is nearly as strong as steel. It's what many 150-200 year old barns and houses here see built with. And it's the shingles and other stuff that isn't as hard that rots first, long before the native oak even starts to weaken. You don't drive a nail in it by hand, without a pilot hole first. 😄
Nailguns and staple guns that use plastic nails are super useful, especially in the CNC age. You should get one and use it to make a box or something, and demonstrate how it's fine to cut and drill the plastic nails. Very very handy. Time saver, blade saver.
I was just going to comment about this, especially since he definitely knows about them(he saw them in one of the maker space tour videos)
It might just not be particularly useful to him as he doesn't cnc much.
@@confusedwhale It's super useful for all kinds of other work, too because you don't have to worry about chipping blades when you cut through nails. Want a box lid that's ¾" deep? Make the whole box and cut the lid off, right through the nails, done.
Never knew such critters existed! I'll have to check them out!
@@MaryAnnNytowl The plastic brad nailers are very expensive unfortunately.
I'm also so happy to hear your "respect" to the table saw. Every time I use one I suspect that I will fall directly on the saw and be split in two. Glad I'm not the only one
This might be the most dangerous misconception about power tools. Of course you’re right to respect and even fear them, but the idea that it’ll be fine as long as you concentrate and be careful can lead to horrific accidents when you use a table saw like Adam’s: he doesn’t even have a riving knife installed. A riving knife minimises the danger of kickback and is the absolute bare minimum of saftey features on a table saw. If he can’t retrofit one, his saw needs to be scrapped. Not sold or given away, but destroyed - it’s insane to run a table saw without a riving knife. I know, thousands of people still do it: they’re all stupid and won’t have any right to complain if they end up with missing fingers and a piece of wood in their stomach.
I really like Adam, but he needs someone to knock some sense into him, because what he’s saying is simply not true: I just looked for a video to confirm that his saw doesn’t have a riving knife, and he’s not “standing safely” in front of it - although that wouldn’t help at all with kickback anyway. Sawing pieces that are wider than long without using a sled, as he often does, is another massive no-no - Adam’s videos are among the worst examples of table saw use on TH-cam. Even Jimmy DiResta is using a riving knife, a blade guard (a hundred times more important than people think) and pushsticks since he recently lost a fingernail.
So you need to be as mindful as you possibly can with table saws, but also use all the safety features whenever possible - they make a ton of sense and prevent accidents. What Adam is showing in his videos is hugely irresponsible, nevermind his BS story about clowns with ball bearings.
@@mm9773 You are not wrong. Adam never really says he is the ideal model for safety though. And my point wasn't to not use the safety equipment given with tables saws. it is just that the fact I need that many things to make the tools "safe" made me hate using it. I would almost always use circular saw over table saw when it was practical enough.
@@Frank_D14 I just think it’s fair to be super critical of Adam for perpetuating this stuff about being careful while running dangerous equipment: 3000 rpm win against mindfulness every single time. 5 million subscribers and he’s demonstrating lots of unsafe practices to them.
Including pointing a loaded and connected nail gun directly at whoever may be standing behind the camera, repeatedly. You couldn’t make it up 😂
A shop Forman once told me (and I've heard it several times since): Most power tools CAN maim you, the table saw WANTS to maim you.
And hasn't Adam been without a cameraman since COVID?
Hi Adam! Just that tip on putting a sample staple on the front of the organizer drawer was worth my time watching this video! THANK YOU for all you share and do. EXCELLENT safety notes! I have so many stories of accidents and incidents from my time in the Navy... don't get me started.
I am a homeowner with a day job who does not do anything construction related for a living. That being said I am working on framing out my basement and Bought this th-cam.com/users/postUgkxHQsUrwNr5GQrnx9V4xDdUr56qxwuiBHt gun. I have done a few walls already, have probably shot a couple hundred nails through this thing and have yet to have a misfire. It works awesome, good depth on every nail if you have your compressor set right. My literal only complaint is that it is a bit heavy and my arm can get a little tired especially whrn I am nailing at odd angles. That being said I am super happy with it and would buy it again. Hoping the old girl allows me to get my whole basement finished out!
I believe the 23 gauge nailers are typically referred to as "pin nailers" where they have no visible nail head. Just a clarification for those searching for these tools 👍
Yup! Used to use one on the regular at my old job, came here to say this.
Used mostly for trim work I believe
Beat me to it, I have nailers that are called "Finish Nailers" and they fire 15-16 gauge nails that are typically held in strips with tape, and are far larger than anything Adam has here.
Or headless pins
I use one for making small wooden projects, like Adam says, it holds it together great while the glue dries, its a great tool.
The most important information that Adam imparts in this video. Is that the Internet is great. But absolute takeaway is that meeting people gives you the best ideas.
Adam going to other people's shops bought the biggest smile in the video. Well done Adam.
One thing that was overlooked, maintenance wise, is to add a few drops of oil before hooking up your air supply.
Was going to comment, but here it is. The issues that come from a poorly oil pneumatic nailer/stapler are super frustrating and so preventable.
Only do this if your tool requires it. Some new nailguns specify never to use oil.
@@hauptmann6 this is correct, oilless nailers are greased internally and have much longer service intervals. Always read your manual
From the repairman working on my framing nailer: Don't let the spring snap hard into the nails (as satisfying as it is). This causes the rack of nails to buckle and cause jams. Also the nails will wander to the sides of the nails that are chiseled. Fire the nailer so the chiseling is perpendicular to the face of your material.
Two stories, both from my time framing houses decades ago:
First, smaller fasteners, like the staples and brads you're demonstrating, are held together by that lacquer stuff, but bigger fasteners like framing nails and roofing nails are sometimes held together by strings of plastic or wire that disintegrate when the nail is driven. Those pieces of plastic and wire can be ejected along with the air discharge, so it's vitally important to know where the air discharge is pointed so you don't blast yourself in the face with tiny bits of 100 psi plastic and wire.
Second, while working in a framing plant, I was mashing down on a slightly out-of-tune 2x4 while shooting a nail through the intersecting 2x into the bottom of the first 2x. The nail went straight through the board and through a knot, and the knot blew out and went THROUGH a leather work glove I was wearing and into my left palm. I still have the scar nearly 40 years later.
Air tools are fantastic. They make us much more productive. But always, always, always respect their power.
When he introduced the finish nailer I thought to myself “leaves it to the Finns to make a good tool”…and it took me longer than I’m happy to admit to realize that wasn’t the kind of Finnish he meant
Yup. There's a slight difference between Finish and Finnish. :)
Man, I feel bad for both Adam and that fan.
Adam for damaging and potentially losing his nail gun, and that fan for being called out by Adam.
You know, it might take forever, but I feel like it would be safer for me to do things by hand. I get distracted easily.
My grandfather was an upholsterer and the entire family worked in the store at one time or another, it was like a rite of passage. My first job was sweeping and cleaning the shop until I graduated to making buttons, taking couches apart and sanding frames. My hands would shake like an alcoholics' by the end of the day using a palm sander to make frames feel like glass. I asked my grandfather why I was doing this when no one was ever going to see it and know what it was like. He just looked at me and said, "I'll know".
He and my uncle used to challenge me to use a staple gun while they used their old school method of tacking fabric, a magnetized tacking hammer and tacks in their mouths. They would bring the hammer to their mouths, pick up a tack and drive it into the fabric and frame like machines. I could never finish as fast or as tight as they could.
His most prestigious job was upholstering the chair that Pope John Paul II sat on when he came to NY in 1979 and visited Shea Stadium. It's a good thing he never visited the store, my grandfather would have treated him like all his customers and told him to go away until the work was done.
Adam sure does point it right at us all throughout… and I feel it viscerally each time.
And the camera operator. Most of the shots were a fixed camera, but several shots were hand held, and the live nail gun swept he camera.
All I can say is it is truly infectious in a wonderful way seeing Adam get keyed up over these things. The energy he gives out is... incomparable, and it comes through the video screen.
I totally agree!
“Pin nailer. It will change your life.” Words from A. Savage in a previous video. True that!
I'm at 4:07 watching this on our home theater (MUCH better sound quality btw - try it!), but I needed to come to my laptop to say holy cow, I am in awe of Adam's mastery of his craft. I read the title of this episode and said to myself "ya..ya.. nail guns .. how much is there to say ... And now I'm like, boy am I glad I watched this one! thanks as always, Adam! :D
“Don’t point them at anything you don’t want to harm”
proceeds to sweep the camera man with the muzzle multiple times
I am tempted to drop a mention of Alec Baldwin (to those wondering how anything could possibly be pointed at people behind camera).
He has no camera man. Just a camera.
@@ksavage681 there's most definitely a camera operator. The camera moves constantly in this video.
@@alexanderpinneyI don’t think the camera moves, its the editor that’s reframing the picture in post. Possibly because its shot using a wide camera angle
Since there doesn’t seem to be any parallax
Nailed it… Another great and inspirational video, I think it’s wonderful seeing the way your face lights up when you talk about tools. You make me want to go out and create something with each and every video.
Thank you so much for going over the Edison connector and transformer. I've seen tons of conversion/DIY projects, and they rarely explain the critical detail of making sure the power is stepped down to match the limits of your motor.
I have seen low amp 110 suppiled through under used pins on serial ports and similar stupidity (over 30 years ago IIRC). (nobody is going to use this cable with anything other than our stuff and look how much we save by using a standard connector). Much more common is to use a standard connector with different pin outs
Putting wall jacks on stuff that can only handle low voltage DC feels to me a lot like those USB killers that that came out a while back..
I mean. Yes. Yes, tou can. And it might work when only the designer uses it and even then only when the designer is awake and sober. But.. why. Why would one put oneself into the danger if fatal accident by one simple slip of the mind.
Reminds me so much of a Meme from years ago.
It was basically a screenshot from one of those Question and Answer Sites:
The question was "What is the fear of chainsaws called?" and the answer was "Common sense!".
Fits for every flesh eating tool around you.
I held my breath every time the staple/ brad gun waved past the camera operator.
Hey has great trigger control and danger awareness. Even in the back of everything he does. What a 10/10
My parents were upolsterers and worked from home in a big workshop. The sound of a pnumatic t50 staplegun is the sound of my childhood. that and the BRRRR of an industrial sewing machine
"the best tools, increase what's possible in your shop" I love that! I'm definitely a generalist, and having all sorts of different kinds of genres of tools is tremendously influential to what I not only can make, but what I can imagine to make
I was a woodworker before I worked in a hospital and I knew to always keep body parts clear of any of the brad nail/staple/framing guns. Then I worked in the ER, and I couldn’t believe how many people came in with nails stuck in the bone that had to be surgically removed by ortho!! Fingers, thighs (from using their leg as a saw horse to hold the material while they used a framing gun). Shudder. I was already careful, but that made me even more careful!!
I’m also excited that I’m getting an electric brad nailer as an “inside” tool since SO doesn’t like my dusty garage workshop tools in the house - compromise - I get the basics for tools inside duplicated. Hehe. I’m so excited.
Not that you need another stapler in your arsenal but as an upholsterer the 22 guage #7 stapler is my go to for cloth, leather, and vinyl. The t50 is often too large for my applications. Thank you for the great content!
Three out of four of my grandparents had one of their fingers permanently disfigured by power tools. That, in and of itself, was a pretty good lesson for a young boy on the dangers of circular saws, lathes, and just power tools in general. Never needed another one. Loved the video, don't know why since I'm not looking to purchase any power tools, but nonetheless. It's always fun to hear an experienced vet talk about something they know a lot about.
Battery staplers have come a long way in just the last few years! Been really enjoying my Milwaukee nailers and staplers.
I'm a big fan of corded tools and I have an electric T50 staple gun that I love to use. It uses an actual finger trigger, with a physical trigger lock and an On/Off power switch. I can fire staples into the air a short distance, and I can rapidly staple all day with it and not burn out my arms.
We procured a battery powered Dewalt brad nailer for our on site escape room installs because carting around an airtank isn't always fun. I did get a pin nailer based off another of Adam's video and it is a HUGE time saver.
I loved this video and it answered the questions I had and much more. There is another advantage to using the light gauge guns that I find appealing and that is if you are using a tablesaw, circular saw, jigsaw, bandsaw, to cut a piece that has been temporarily fastened with one of these you wont do much harm to your nice blade. I always try and avoid them but it does happen occasionally.
I always enjoy your videos. If nothing else, you're enjoying/excitement you put into every video. Your joy brings me joy, too.
I love the warning about the edison plug! Thanks for everything, Adam!
Excellent timing! You read my mind because I was just considering getting a pneumatic stapler.
Dude I swear I could listen to your stories for hours! So much detail about the smallest of things I wouldn't even remember
FYI, there is an adapter for the old post DeWalt tools to use the new flat batteries.
Model number dca-1820
Ya doesn't help with a motor that already say 120v but if he has any more tools or gets another one used or something if he likes that one
Although I am currently looking to buy a nail gun for my beginner woodwork it doesn't matter if I know diddly squat about what products or items Adam is talking about, his energy and enthusiasm have me enthralled.
Love those Senco staplers. Shot many thousands of small Staples in the year I worked trimming trailers, and luckily only 2 into myself; one through my thumbnail and one into the meaty part of my palm. Not fun, but luckily no real damage done and luckily I never got myself with the big stapler. Adam is right, those little buggers crave flesh and will go to extreme lengths to get it. I've even had Staples turn a leg nearly 180 degrees to end up pointing straight out of the wall if they are obstructed just wrong.
I have an ultra cheap electric stapler i bought many years ago. Didn't use it for years. When watching one of your builds, I saw you using a stapler. Next build, instead of using screws (which is what I usually use), decided to try my electric stapler since the parts were not going to be under pressure...It changed my life. Went so much faster...Not pretty like screws but holds well enough. My electric stapler does no put the staple in all the way, so I have to finish off the job with a hammer, but it's great (I think it cost me 15$CDN with a bunch of staples 20 years ago). The safety tip you shared during that build about the hand-line of fire thing stayed with me.
Adam I love this video, and I have to add one to you list. I'm a Furniture Repairman and I use staplers a lot too. My favorite one is the Porter-Cable 22-Gauge Upholstery Stapler. If you like your "pin nailer" then this will blow your mind. I find it shoots nicer than a T-50. I can not recommend it enough!
Update: call me stupid or curious. I was using an old dining chair seat top to kneel on while reupholstering a couch. I shot the previously mentioned staple gun about a foot away from the chair top and watched it bounce off. The seat top was made of polyvinyl leather which I thought mignt be a good analog for human skin. The stapler mentioned above is semi auto with no safety which makes it super quick for reupholstering work and why I love it so much. Acosinolyy ill shoot it across the workshop just for fun listening for it to hit the metal wall hearing the delay to "visualize" how fast it goes. Mind you they are so light of staples that the air drag slows them down quite quickly. Anyway, I was curious to see if it would bounce off my skin just as it did to this kneeling pad. I took a video of it for fun as well. So I held it 12 inches away from my thigh, held my breth and pulled the trigger. To my suprise it hit my leg and didn't really hurt. Kinda felt like I got hit with a penny or a nurf gun bullet. However, the staple did manage to get stuck in my leg. I pulled it out and it immeditally started to bleed all over this dropcloth I had put down. All in all it didnt hurt till after. A few days had past and I had quite the bruise on my thigh. I cant imagine what it would do to a finger. Just thought I'd share. haha
Perfect timing! Just yesterday, I was thinking about breaking down and finally getting a brad gun!
Your experience is comprehensive enough. Thanks.
Joey sweatin’ bullets behind the camera every time Adam points the nail gun in his direction 😅
Great segment. I used staple guns when I worked in Theater in College. I loved them. We had both narrow and wide crown. The wide crown was an older gun, and it may or may not have had any safety's on it. And people in the Scene shop, may or may no have unloaded clips of staples for fun. :)
Love this, I use a lot of hand routers, and router tables and always teach new guys to think that the router or piece of wood is going to be ripped from your hand or into the blade at any moment.
I bought a stapler yesterday and this amazing video just popped out randomly on YT main page - what a coincidence :D
I work at a small theatre here in Norway and can confirm, we definitely have staple guns!
I've been waiting for a video like this, any chance a guide to starting out with air tools is on the horizon? As far as QD attachments and hoses.
Great idea!
Be sure to touch on the importance of flow from your compressor for different tools. High CFM is critical for many common tools
You guys really should copy the clips of Adam's PSA rants into their own standalone videos. They're really helpful! I'd love a playlist of nothing but PSA's!
Been doing finish/trimwork, framing, and finer woodwork/furniture since i was 15. I think i used my first air nailer when i was 13. I learned absolutely nothing new from this video, all pretty amateur.. Still stayed the duration- Adam has an amazing ability to make anything interesting!
I challenge you to make a whole video where you watch a wall of paint dry, and keep us entertained the whole time.
Worked for Jeld Wen for years as a young man out of high school. Door manufacturer, the only tools we used were tape measures, pnuematic screw guns, and nail-guns/staple-guns. Saw every f-up with the latter two possible. Lots of folks dont understand that the trigger on a nail/staple gun is two pieces. The safety “nose-press” mechanism and the trigger itself. It doesnt matter which is invoked first, when the other is activated the thing fires ( hold the trigger down then press the nose down and it will fire, hold the nose down then pull the trigger and it will fire). In terms of assembly line operation, guys get extremely fast in their work, and will look for methods to i crease their completion time by a few seconds. We ran with the nose zip tied back, and let me tell you it will bite you. Messing with the regulators will too, cant tell you how many times I have shot a 1 1/2” 14 ga nail through a 2” piece of trim and see the offending nail sticking out of my knee. The glue that holds the nails together burns when it is imbedded in your flesh btw. Seen guys accidentlly shoot each other with this safety bypass too. Seen guys nail their fingers together too. Just do what he says…..with this thought in mind, push the nose down when you have the nailgun where you want it, pull the trigger and pull the gun away. One nail at a time. Double, triple and quadruple shots lead to blowout that will send a nail flying your way!
Loved this one .. his wit right on point.
Ohhh this is gold man! I've been looking for a while for this video
Thanks for the video. The number one recommendation missed in this video was recommendations related to the monitoring of air pressure. Note: Adam is working in his own private shop, Adom is not currently sharing his shop. Here is the set up... All these tools have a max air pressure they can tolerate before you blow out the seals. Second; changing the operating air pressure, changes the depth that the nails, brads, or staples drive into the material. If the heads are driving in too deep, you lower the air pressure. If the heads are not driving flush with the surface and are standing proud, you increase the air pressure ( as long as that will not breach the max safe air pressure). So, with that in mind, imagine this set up... You work in a commercial shop or makerspace... You get your air from a giant air compressor that is somewhere in the back of the building. It is set at 160 psi and is being piped all over the building. Some other worker needs 160 psi to power his impact driver tools, but 160 psi will blow out the seals in your tool and blow your brads dangerously through your material, destroying the work you are building.... What do you do? Easy... You install a very small "in-line" air regulator valve at the base of your tool. These have a small pressure gauge and a turn valve. So, the shop air is set to 160 psi... no problem. You look at your tool, you slowly open the valve now installed directly at the base of your tool until the pressure reads 60 psi and you try one brad. If you need more pressure, open the valve a little more, and perfection! I promise you, if you install an in-line pressure regulator valve on one tool, you will go back online and order a bunch more for all of your air tools. Reason, even if you don't need to adjust the air pressure it is just a fantastic way to add a pressure gauge to the end of your tool so that you can monitor what the pressure is that is working. Again, thanks for the video.
One thing that blew my mind was, no matter what trade you are in, there are specialty tools each uses to make things go way quicker and faster and makes life easier if you are doing it all day long every day. Most of us won't ever run across these tools, and are fascinating when you do see them. Just like those cool Kreg jigs that you see for woodworking.
My go to nailer for the past 12 years has been the Grex 23 gauge headless pin nailer. Model takes 3/8” to 2” pin nails.
Sold me when they showed it shooting 2” 23 gauge nails thru solid oak with no issues. I’ve always used the Grex pin nails, but not sure if they’re proprietary.
Hung crown molding in my house with no issues.
The exhaust shoots out the back of the gun under where the air attaches - nice!
Ever since I picked this one out, I haven’t touched any of my brad nailers. The only exception is when a stapler or frame nailer is needed.
My go to nailer even today! 23 gauge is the way to go!
0:45 reminds us how dangerous the tool is and to never point it at anyone 3:32 proceeds to point DIRECTLY at the cameraman. LOL
Perfect timing! I've been looking into getting a brad-nailer in the last few days.
I've got a dewalt nailer that uses batteries. Beats my old pneumatic one by a mile. No compressor or air hose to bother with. It was more expensive so that's a concern if you won't use it very much.
I'm glad you showed the staples coming out of the side. The nails and staples are sharks swimming through the wood, and they will come for you.
Always incredible to watch a nail-gun fire a nail into a steel girder. I never thought it possible till I first saw it.
Hilti has entered the chat 😉
Although technically a powder actuated driver, unless you are using makita's 300 psi high pressure pneumatic system 🤔
I use the pin nailer along with clamps for doing interior work giving extra support and security to the connection
Very well put. ALWAYS consider any projectile (pin, staple, etc.) to be a hostile threat. Also, it is definitely touched on in this video, but, to reiterate: DO NOT DISABLE OR MESS WITH THE SAFETIES ON YOUR TOOLS.
THIS TIMES INFINITY. If the safeties are interfering with your workflow, then the workflow needs to be changed.
That "group of clowns" test is going to live in my brain forever.
I didn’t know squat about nailers. Thank you so much for this!
Nice as someone who uses tools and my hands for many years... love this
One of my favorite features on a nailer/stapler is on a Hitachi. A button that, when pressed, blows air out the front of the gun to clear away dust and chips. At first I thought it was silly, only to really appreciate it later.
And yes, shooting your own hand hurts, a lot.
Thanks for this! Another topic I would find useful would be a dive into pneumatic rivet setters, riv-nuts, etc. I bet that would be useful to a lot of makers out there.
As someone who, at around 10-12 years old, had to put up Christmas Lights on the house using one of those old manual T50 staplers... those things suck. They do the job, but man are they hard on anyone's hands.
Great as always
One other piece of advice. Two drops of nail gun oil in the air fitting of your gun before every use will make them tun great all the time!
For anyone looking for some other very specialized or just awesome pneumatic fastening tools check out what Meite sells my personal favorite is the long nose fine wire stapler (J4 Series) there like micro narrow crown staples or the Corrugated Nailer is awesome as well
awsum video Adam im looking at getting one of these this video been a great help thank you
You brought me back to my auto upholstery days with that pneumatic T50. I don't recommend it, but when I was young and dumb we had stapler fights in the shop quite often. FYI, many of the new ones have safeties on them.
Oh yeah we fired staples off at each other all the time. If the staple is really lightweight, as most are, once they're fired out and away from the gun they lose all of their energy. They wouldn't even penetrate clothes if it wasn't point blank. I'm not condoning anyone try this though.
Awesome video, thanks for the info!
I bought two of the Dewalt 18v tool to 20v MAX battery adapters to be able to use the stockpile of 20v batteries. The one thing with the adapter is that it will not take the larger 20v battery packs, there are tabs that limit it to the smaller 20v packs. But the ones I bought came with the 2.0 aH battery if you didn’t have any 20v batteries yet.
Cut out the tabs. That’s how I use all my BD batteries on my Porter Cable tools.
Thank you for this. It's perfect timing. I just bought a setup of an air tank and 3 different sized nail guns. I'm making a hardware box with a bunch of caddies and wasn't sure which size/type attachment to use. Now I know what I'm going to do.
Thank you for staying the importance of safety with these things! I’ve sent a staple into my finger once, and I’ll never do it again!
Hey Adam! Just wanted to make you aware you can buy adapters that you can make the new style dewalt battery plug Into old tools!!! I love this video I was actually just looking at getting a brad nailer for house projects! Great video!
I’ve got that Senco and I love it!
I love watching Adams videos learning stuff I didn't know I really wanted to learn! Thank you Adam and Tested!
Adam Savage, Lord of the Accident Waiting to Happen, talking about tool safety? lol
I use an Arrow P50 pneumatic stapler. Brilliant little stapler.
Great video, Adam. Perhaps a technicality but that Makita is a Medium crown stapler...I own the same one. A wide crown staple is 1" wide, a medium crown is 1/2" wide. The narrow crown is 1/4" wide as you mentioned. Thanks for the videos.
Have a buddy that builts sets for film /commercial who had a 1in wide crown stapler. That thing is a beast!
I have a duo upholstery stapler and it works great for cloth, vinyls and leather hooding.
Adam! Did you just measure the crown width on your forearm? Do you have a measurement scale tattooed there! Now THAT's dedication to the craft. I salute you!
I have a 23 gauge nailer in my shop now because of Adam and I can not say thank you enough.
Wait until you find out about the 21 gauge that's slightly thicker with a head
@@thecloneguyz hmm time to Google thank you.
Great info Adam thank you
What the heck! I JUST finished a fake Louis Vuitton steamer trunk! I'm SUPER excited to see your version! 😮
many years ago in high school wood shop a student was firing staples across the room at people. i got one about an inch from my eye. thankfully that behavior wouldn't be allowed anymore.
In my school that student would be removed from any future shop class; Middle or High School.
@@peterkelley6344 as they should be! if you can't be responsible with power tools you shouldn't be using them.
We used the T50 stapler every year when I was growing up when we hung the Christmas lights on the house. Can confirm the smoke coming out of my elbows.
Great video!
haha putting your hand behind is so intuitive Ive seen it go wrong plenty, actually I got myself almost a couple of times when I just got my first gun, pushing something against so you can tack it. The combination guns for 18 gauge braids and narrow staples are great, you can pick up pretty cheap well build ones and you have a gun that will do both. I use them almost exclusively with glued up parts, I find that's where it works best. for just mechanical fasting use a screw. I put cabinets together with these and just some glue, no clamps they stand, quick build and with a portable little compressor you can do it at the clients house. Mine is LOUD though, a friend has a tiny super quiet one, its nice.
I've had a nail gun driven through the fleshy part of my thumb/forefinger when I was landscaping. I was on the other side of a fence being assembled and thanks to a desire for speed, we got out of sync and I didn't clear my hand (thankfully with a leather glove) in time. I needed to be on the other side of the fence and was partly out of view of my boss/partner. What my boss and I should have done was to add 1-2 seconds to positively clear the region being nailed with a verbal warning. We do that all the time in aviation "clear prop!" or "you have the flight controls/I have the flight controls" and should have here. Lesson learned.
I love it how he said to not point it at anyone you don't want to harm, instead of don't point it at anyone. great video though and a great channel
Nailed it!
Pneumatic guns are so unpretentious and do not call attention to their dangers. They are quiet, convenient and fast. They don't scream "DANGER" like a loud table saw with a menacing and spinning blade of teeth. Yet yes, they can cause considerable damage very quickly, though quietly. I, too, give full respect to my brad nailer. Thanks for the intro and especially for the numerous warnings. I didn't know pin nailers did not have the safety nose.
If your nails are going in too far, do a test and dial down the air pressure to get what you need. They are after all driven by the pressure you fire them with.