Dear Barry:
Get your wife some of the ear plugs used in industry to protect her
hearing, and then encourage her to use the pass-load on the next project. She
may have been considering a project of her own, so let her borrow your toy.
The only risk you run, is that you may have to borrow it back.
Yours Truly,
Clifford Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Levine
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] A Paslode Nailer
Clifford, you hit the nail on the head... (sorry for the bad pun.)
I've just finished using this tool for the first time, and it's going to
take me longer to tell you about it than it took to do what I needed to do
with it.
One of our daughters' beds had a problem with supporting the mattress. The
frame has wooden siderails, at the inside lower edge of which are wood
runners which are there to support a bunch of wooden slats connected to one
another with some sort of canvas ribbon. The wooden slats, in turn are what
support the mattress. There is no box-spring for this bed.
Well, the wood edges on the inside of the side rails are apparently not deep
enough to keep the wood slats from getting jostled off and falling to the
floor, allowing the mattress to do the same... a very rude awakening...
literally.
So, my fix was simple... take a couple of pine 1 by 3's, and glue and nail
them to the wooden edges, thereby giving those edges approx another inch and
a half on each side... enough ledge to solve the jostling off problem. I
honestly don't know what the builders of this bed were thinking.
The original edge on the inside of the wood rails was too thin, maybe an
inch, to allow for hammering, as it is of course connected to the bed rail.
I could have drilled pilots and countersunk screws, but that too needs some
room, as well as more cleanup and accuracy, since I'd drill the pilots, put
down a bead of glue, then lay the board back down to do the screwing. I
suppose I could have just piloted the screw holes right through the wood and
glue, but that seems sloppy to me.
This nailer is so easy and quick, I decided to put a couple of brads through
the wooden slats, as well. Not too many... as there needs to be some play
in the system... but, a few.
It's really easy with this nailer to use a finger to find your spot, remove
your finger, place the tip of the nailer, push down, squeeze the trigger,
and... POP!
It's our youngest daughter's bed, and she's coming home for the weekend...
she's away at school... but only approx 40 miles away. So, she's home
fairly often. I figured 260 bucks wasn't too much to spend for her
slumbering safety.
Overall, it seemed as though I absolutely needed to go out and buy a
cordless nailer for this little project.
If you agree... please send a letter of support I can show Phyllis... she's
still shaking her head.
--Barry
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of clifford
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Paslode Nailer
Dear Barry:
You will find many uses for your new nailer, although there may be months in
between uses. The jobs will go so quickly, that you will feel that you have
not used it much, but pick up the hammer and do just a small part and you
will quickly recall why you love your new toy.
I have the electric model from DeWalt, which uses an eighteen volt battery
and my wife enjoys using it. It does not make as much noise as the
pass-load, but both are good products. We normally borrow a pass-load when
it comes time to frame, as 2.5 inch nails will not work when framing.
When installing base-board or other trim, they are really handy and
efficient.
Yours Truly,
Clifford Wilson
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Levine
To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:12 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] A Paslode Nailer
Howdy Blind Handy People,
I have a new, as in just purchased about an hour ago, Paslode 18-gauge
cordless brad nailer! Hah! My scores on the man-scale have just risen
another whole standard deviation above the mean!
It works off a battery and a gas charge. The battery will last approx 4000
hits, and the gas canister will go for approx 1200 hits. It will handle
brads from five-eights inch long, on up to two inches.
I bought it because I have a little project that was going to be a pain if I
had to manually nail some finishing brads to hold a couple of 6-foot lengths
of one-by 3 clear finishing pine in place.Now, the only problem I have is
not having enough finishing work around the house to use it more.
The only downside to this little 4.9 pound beauty of a tool is that my wife
states she won't stay in the same room with me while I'm shooting. Ah well,
life is full of little sacrifices.
--Barry
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