Nail guns

[user 6228]

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I bought from Lidl the first electrict pin nailer. It was cheap but pins are valuable. However it was fantastic tool and now I have them 3. Two are broken. Cheap ones do not stand working.

10 boxes = 100 frames. Each frame has 10 pins = 1000 pins.

And many other works where you may use it. - And many other where you should not use it.

pins expensive? @£8 for 5000 (from our local tool shop) thats 2 Euro per 1000

Though if you buy them from B&Q they are £6 per 1000 and around £5 for 5000 from screwfix
(all 15mm 18 GA)

 

[Outlander]

When you say you make a box full up in such a short time is that becsuse you have them held in a jig.

 

[Into the lions den]

When you say you make a box full up in such a short time is that becsuse you have them held in a jig.

No jig. Hand assemble all ten frames. You can hold three frames across the top bars, maybe two if you have small hands, and hold this bundle vertically against a firm surface......we have tables set up, but a stack of boxes with a crown board on top will do..............and nail down two brads to each end of the tops.................all three frames at one end at a time, then the other end. Takes seconds. Then turn the bundle over, still gripping them firmly by the topbars, and nail the bottom bars in. Done.

At that point our methods will probably digress as our frames then go on to be prewired for the use of unwired foundation, but most on here will be using prewired foundation and so still have the wedge bars to remove and renail back in after fitting the wax. If we do that then that is a process we do not mechanise. 20mm 18g zinced panel pins for narrow top bars for that job, but 25mm ones if you have the wider top bars (as all but a tiny number of ancient ones we have are the wide ones).