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)?

James wrote:
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)?

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is speed,
this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only have one arm,
then it will be a godsend.

"James" wrote in message
...
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

Phil L wrote:
James wrote:
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)?

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is speed,
this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only have one arm,
then it will be a godsend.

But it's manual feed not magazine, you'd have to get good at spitting
the nails into the gun, or use a foot !!

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is speed,
this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only have one arm,
then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1 )

EricP wrote:

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is speed,
this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only have one arm,
then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1

I have a second B&Q nail gun that fires a clip of 40 mm nails. It is
crap. I might find a use for it on a glazing job if I ever get one big
enough to warrant geting it out the cupboard.

EricP wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is
speed, this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only
have one arm, then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1 )

a la Homer Simpson's invention?

"Phil L" wrote in message
k...
EricP wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is
speed, this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only
have one arm, then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1 )

a la Homer Simpson's invention?

No that was Edison's ;-)

H

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:35:13 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

EricP wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is
speed, this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only
have one arm, then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1 )

a la Homer Simpson's invention?

Dunnu, but I found someone last week complaining bitterly about a
"nail gun" from a shed that had no magazine and when he tried it, it
went bang, bang, bang, very slowly and hit the nail in. I remembered
it because it was so funny. )

EricP wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:35:13 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

EricP wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:55:39 GMT, "Phil L"
wrote:

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is
speed, this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only
have one arm, then it will be a godsend.

If it's the thing I read about elsewhere, it actually bangs the nail
in like a hammer1 )

a la Homer Simpson's invention?

Dunnu, but I found someone last week complaining bitterly about a
"nail gun" from a shed that had no magazine and when he tried it, it
went bang, bang, bang, very slowly and hit the nail in. I remembered
it because it was so funny. )


ROFL :-)

In message , James
writes
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.
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)?
Wasn't this covered here about a month and a half ago? I think the
poster returned it because it was crap.
--
Clint Sharp

James wrote:
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)?

Its crap. I bought one and took it back next day.

Search for my previous post about it.

dg

"Phil L" wrote in message
k...
James wrote:
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)?

My view is that it's crap...the only reason for using a nailgun is speed,
this will be slower than doing it manually, unless you only have one arm,
then it will be a godsend.

It looks well priced and solid. I very rarely use nails and an Impact
Driver using screws, even 6" screws, is better than nails.