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It was and is awesome. Makes life a little easier and is easy to control. It has never jammed and, well it looks nice too.Long Live the DeWalt company.
Great tool. I have never used one before and it is very easy to use and works perfect.
I've had this Brad Nailer for a few months. I seldom use it and estimate that I have fired assorted length nails somewhere in the 250 or so count till now. I did not encounter any misfires or dry fires whatsoever but sometimes the plunger won't recycle. I don't know if it's the angle that I shoot the nails but somehow if I shoot it real straight and press the nose a bit harder then this problem does not happen.
DeWalt has missed the mark with this gun and I would not recommend it to anyone. Most of my experience with this gun is with using 2" nails. I bought this gun a few months ago at Lowes. In my opinion this gun should be recalled. I can report to all that this gun frequently mis-fires (dry fire). Also, the gun doesn't always 'reset' back into the proper firing position. Don't be lured by the good looks and light weight - the substance is not behing the style. Thank goodness Lowes took this product back - I told the customer service person that it's a RTV (return to vendor).
in June '04, so this review is a testament to my cheapness and masochism (I have suffered this gun for years). Really, it is stupidity on my part that I have put up with this. gun thinking those other guys' problems were flukes. So I endured it. But I already had the DeWalt angled 15 ga. 2 1/2" and loved it (still do -- never one problem and my tools get heavy use), so I bought the little 18 ga. I bought this P.O.S. Problem was that there would be periods when there were no problems (rat psychology says that intermittent reinforcement is the most powerful).
Hopefully my self-imposed suffering will come to an end.I notice that most of the reviews for this gun are (still) good, so if you go ahead and buy it I hope you fare better than I did. I have easily spent enough time clearing jams and dealing with the problems of this gun to pay for another gun many times over. But if you do buy and get a piece of crap, remember that you too were warned. believe me, the frustration of having dry fires after clearing a jam and then once again going through complex alignment of the trim only to have another misfire. Before buying I saw some reviews that talked about problems with jams and misfires. But when I finish this review I am ordering the Milwaukee 18 ga.
I got several months of good use before I starting having problems too: 1st shot after connecting to air - dry fire; jams - nail gets bent over inside the magazine; nail clip will overlap itself and jam; plunger won't recycle; random dry fires - several in sequence. AAAARRRGGHHH. gun. And if you do get junk, cut your loss quick.
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