On Apr 18, 6:02 pm, "Swingman" wrote:

Nope ... that's Leon's, mine is Italian colored.

An "Omer"

I almost bit off on a cobalt blue (nope, not Lowe's, HF) when they had
them a month or so ago for $!9.95 This was the advanced model, it
shot pins as long as 1 1/4". :^)

I put several people on to the HF brad nailers as they were so cheap
that you could literally buy them, use them for a while then toss
them. I bought about 5 or six of their larger 18 ga brad nailers
about three years ago and gave them out as Christmas gifts. For
$9.95, you got the nailer, a tiny bottle of oil, 250 1 1/4 brads, the
air fitting, some teflon tape (4 inches!) and a tiny bottle brush
which was liberated from each package to keep as a paint gun nozzle
brush.

All of them still work. One of them is in a high school shop now and
has had thousands of brad shot through it.

Go figure.

I really like my Bostitch stuff a lot more, but I did use one of those
for several days trimming out a house when I was waiting on a seal kit
for my 2" Bostitch bradder. Not bad... not bad at all. Worth every
cent and then some.

I will have to be looking more and more at backup plans as now my
Bostitch repair guy has pulled stakes and is gone. I will now have to
wait for a couple of weeks to get parts from Bostitch when I need seal
kits, triggers, etc. I have 7 different Bostitch guns, so I may be in
some trouble when one of them dies. With a $65 bench fee and charges
for all parts, some may not be worth fixing. Not that long ago, when
I bought a couple of cases of nails, they would replace any soft parts
a gun needed for nothing, and take it apart and install any hard parts
I purchased from them for nothing. Those were the days....

Sitting here thinking about it, the hell of it all is that a HF backup
gun costs less than the tune up kit of soft parts for the smaller
guns. And for $5, I can get the HF store exchange warranty that lasts
or a year on a new brad gun. Might have to think this through some
more.

Robert