90mm Nailer

[tabbypurr]

Looking at getting a Max 90mm 34 degree nailer, gas powered with battery. Not had one before so any points to beware of when buying?

NT

[Brian Gaff]

The crims use them for breaking iin to toughened glass apparently. Brian

[John Rumm]

I think these days I would look at some of the cordless ones that don't require gas - keeps the consumables price down and does not tie you to a particular supplier of nails etc.

[tabbypurr]

I've got it now. Much cheaper than the nice but heavy no-gas ones. With the amount of use it'll get it's not really worth going gasless at this time. I'm sure it will be one day.

Nails & gas it takes the same as the Paslode IM350, so lots of choice. Buyi ng the nails has been frustrating though, Screwfix out of stock on the ones I wanted. I need another supplier really, getting fed up of Screwfix not h aving stuff. And this is a bit outside of regular diy stuff.

NT

[John Rumm]

Paslode themselves are usually reliable stockists - although they do variable "trade" pricing which makes them expensive for non volume customers.

[Andrew Mawson]

Be aware the the gas DOES 'go off' - I was sceptical but after a period of 'not firing' problems with my IM350 I went through my gas cans and chucked the old ones and it's been fines ever since.

Andrew

[harry]

If you want to drive 90mm you'll need gas,

[tabbypurr]

NT

[John Rumm]

Is that so harry?:

[tabbypurr]

Well it does the job & uses the cheap IM350 compatible nails & gas so I'm happy with that. Only moan is that getting a part used strip of nails out to change size is fiddly.

NT