"James" wrote in message
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Noticed an 18V cordless nailer in B&Q today at £50 --- not the sort that
fires thin brads but one that takes standard nails 40mm to 150mm and up
to a 10mm head IIRC.

No magazine --- you load nails one at a time into the jaws at the front
of the tool.

It's MacAllister brand so possibly a rebaged GMC product although it's
not on their website.

Didn't have time to study the manual but I guess it taps the nails in
like an impact driver or an SDS nail driver rather than blasting them in
Paslode-style. There was a depth setting gauge on the side.

Anyone got any experience of this tool or any views on how good/crap it
might be (bearing in mind it's a seventh the price of a Paslode and four
times as much as a decent Stanley claw hammer)?

Seems to me that if you need to load each nail individually, then it defeats
the main advantage of having a nail gun to start with. I suspect this is one
of those things that gets wheeled out before Christmas, only to languish
unused on the top shelves of garages and sheds in thousands of homes the
rest of the year.

-- JJ