Seven years ago, I tested this Bostitch pinner in our first- ever pin nailer review, and it left me with mixed impres- sions. Nailers that shoot slight-head will also shoot headless, making them a bit more versatile than guns that only shoot headless. There are two pin nail styles: “slight-head” brads (center) offer a tad more holding power than headless pins (right). Read on to find out which gun gets top honors. Some 4,000 nails later, I’ve learned a few things about these pinners, and I’ve got a favorite here. So, I drove another 100 pins per gun into soft, quarter-round pine to test for nailing finesse. While it’s a tough challenge, all eight tools did the job without a single jam.īut brawn is not where a pin nailer will earn its stripes most of the time: you want it to nail carefully without flawing the work surface, which often happens with brad nailers. Psi and fired 400 nails per gun (either 13⁄16″ or 13⁄8″ long, depending on the tool) into 8/4 maple. To test their mettle, I set my compressor to 90
Pin nailers should be capable of driving the longest nails their magazines will hold into hardwood. You can spend more for premium models or as little as $30 for “bargain” brands with a 1″ nail length limit, but I think this group of eight is probably your wisest value for all-around use.
#23 gauge pinner full
And, while the market is full of options, I chose a test group that I thought would meet our occasional needs best: nailers that can drive fasteners long enough to hold 1/2″ or 3/4″ stock securely while being affordably priced at around $100 or less.
So it’s handy, but you probably won’t need a pinner for every project. You can use it for attaching glass re- tainers to cabinet doors, cross pinning dowels or tacking trim to projects and cabinetry to hold it securely while the glue sets. It can drive stickpin-thin headless or slight-head brads into delicate moldings and hardly leave a mark. While an 18-gauge brad nailer can tackle most of the pneumatic nailing needs for woodworking, a 23-gauge pin nailer is also a really handy tool.
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