----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" Subject: Re: Bad taste
> My great uncle was an old time carpenter. He drove 16d nails with two > hits. One to start it and one to drive it home. Using an air nailer is > easier than learning how to use a hammer. I never have; you have to hit > that nail absolutely true or it bends every time. That I know from > experience. It takes me 3 or 4 hits to drive an 8d. One of those areas where I would rather use whatever labour saving device is available to me is hammering nails. There is skill involved in using an air nailer, BTW. They can do a lot of damage to the material very quickly. Consider that a framing nailer can drive a 3 1/2 inch nail into 50 year old fir 2x6 in one very fast stroke, probably around 1/10th second, and consider what that can do to material that is much less robust. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
