Porter-Cable nailer repair?

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I lent my FR350 to a friend who proceeded to jam it up, and then 'repair' it. The gun was not old at all, and worked well untill then. He took the magazine apart and wasn't able to reassemble it. Even with the exploded view from the website, I wasn't able to reassemble it either. There may be a missing spring also. I took it to my not so local DeWalt/P-C/Delta repair center (along with a compressor as mentioned in a previous post), where they quoted me a price of 'at least' $129 to fix. Does anyone know of a repair shop around Chicago or its suburbs who repairs air nailers? Google doesn't come up with much at all. I hate to just toss it out, but it doesn't make sense to spend that kind of money to rerassemble it. Thanks, Mark

[FrozenNorth]

Sounds like your 'friend' owes you a new nailer.

[Tom Kendrick]

[Lew Hodgett]

Your "Friend" owes you the replacement cost of a new gun.

You owe him the existing gun in whatever state of assembly it exists.

Lew

[Swingman]

Did you try the detailed, exploded diagrams at:

've been able to rebuild most of my PC tools just from their diagrams/parts list.