The time has come for a finish nailer!!!

[Chris Johnson]

I plan on getting a 15g. finish nailer and have about $100 to spend. My choices

Reconditioned dewalt D51275K $89 tool king

Stanley SDA250K $89 amazon

Grizzly H6144 34° $109 Grizzly/amazon

The nailer would see light/moderate DIY finish carpentry. My first choice is the dewalt. Has anyone had experience with refurb tools, especially from tool king. I welcome any and all advice.

Chris

[Vaughn McMillan]

I've had nothing but good results with the refurbed tools I've bought from Tool King. IIRC, I've bought a DW plate joiner, Bosch power planer, and a Bosch hammer drill from them.

(No affiliation; happy customer.)

[Hoa Dinh]

Hey Chris,

I'd get the Dewalt. At one point in time I owned both a Dewalt D51275K and a Porter-Cable DA250B. In terms of quality, they are comparable. But the DW feels better in my hand.

When it was time to let one go, I decided to keep the DW.

[Doug Shepard]

My ROS is a DeWalt refurb that I got through ToolKing. No problems after a year (knock on wood).

[Per Swenson]

Remember Folks, just a opinion.
With that out of the way, why on earth would you want a 15 g
nailer as your only gun? Or even as a start for your collection.

Bonafides, I own more then a dozen. I only have two hands but I
power 3 off the compressor at the same time.

The only time I ever use the 15 is when I hang over 4 inch crown
and hanging prehung doors.

The daily gun (always hooked up) is a 18 g.
I have 4, 2 P/C,s Senco, and the favorite of the week Paslode.
http://www.amazon.com/Paslode-500959-Pneumatic-Finish-Nailer/dp/B00005RHQN/sr=8-4/qid=1158882207/ref=sr_1_4/102-2031238-9252956?ie=UTF8&s=hi

And its only a 100 bucks new.

Leave's a little tiny hole.

Holds a 2 inch nail.
And thats my nickle's worth.

Per

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks for the help guys,

Per, I already have a PC 18g (2" max). I will probably be doing tasks such as hanging doors in the near future. With that, would you advise that I not invest in the 15g and just use the 18 for tasks such as base board and window/door casing.

Chris

[Ben Grunow]

Per- I have had 2 of those paslodes and I loved them too because of the low weight and the feel when you shoot it but- youll find that after a while the tracks in the magazine that hold the head of the nail will wear resulting in very annoying and constant jamming. They are great new and can survive many falls from the pump jacks.

I finally replaced mine with senco trimmaster 25. Feels great and no jams so far, cost $166 though. I was hoping that I would get what I paid for.

I have a stanly gun that is almost 15 years old (I'm only 32) and still going strong (it is good for some falls from the pump jacks too)

Just MHO. Ditto on the 15 ga.

[Hoa Dinh]

... would you advise that I not invest in the 15g and just use the 18 for tasks such as base board and window/door casing.
Not at all, Chris.

A 18 ga. (and the 23 ga.) brad nailer is used more in furniture building.

But a 15 ga. is better for baseboards and house trims. For example, for baseboard, the nail has to go through the baseboard itself (5/8" - 3/4"), the drywall (5/8"), and then the wood frame. A 18 ga. won't have much holding power in that case. Just don't ask me how I know.

[Steve Clardy]

Like Per, I have 10-12 guns. All the sizes, plus doubles, etc.
15 ga. have their places like Per saz, but not for normal trim, woodworking.

A couple of mine are refurbs. Work like the new ones.

[Dan Clark]

...I finally replaced mine with senco trimmaster 25.

Ben,

Just curious... I couldn't find anything on the Senco site for a "TrimMaster". Got a link?

Thanks,

Dan.

[Jim Becker]

I actually like my 15 gage angle nailer and use it more often than I expected to...including a lot of use when I was building my kitchen cabinets. The fact that it shoots "real nails" rather than the wire brads that the 18 gage and 16 gage nailers use gives me more confidence in some cases. That said, the stronger brads that a 16 gage gun shoots can be a nice compromise from the heavier and bulkier 15 gage nailer and still be used for nearly all the same "finish carpentry" work, too.

Oh, the Dewalt would also be my choice of those you list. I've never had an issue with Refurbs and they generally come with a "like new" warranty.

[Ben Grunow]

Sorry- its a senco finishpro 25XP (I guess Im the trimmaster!! LOL)

[Per Swenson]

Chris,

Since you have a 18, I would look in to a 16.

They shoot a 2 1/2.

This is also a great opurtunity to tell my story about the airhose.

Being a pigheaded stuck in my ways

woodwrangler for quite sometime, I scoffed at anybody who didn't use

less then the big goodyear rubber hoses. Gonna be a man darn it

look like one. Well, one day on the job, another less opinionated fella, who

by the way didn't have a right forearm like me and Popeye, sez hook

yer gun up to this... a pansy blue tiny flexible tube.

Weighs nothing, like just carrying the gun.

I have never gone back, but my right fore arm has, match's the other one now.

http://www.amazon.com/PUR-Hose-PUR-14X050-Polyurethane-PSI-Hose/dp/B000067O0I/sr=8-1/qid=1158887199/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-2031238-9252956?ie=UTF8&s=hi

Trying to help

Per

[Chris Barton]

You'er getting good advice. I have a 18 ga Bostich "mag-lite" that has a head that allows very nice toe-nailing (like a 23 ga pinner) then, I either go up to my DW 16 ga finish nailer or down to my PC 23 ga pinner. The Bostich has been flawless and because it's made of magniseum, it is very light.