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hi I'm Kayla with you can make this to
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finish kneelers can be really great to
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have in the shop but there's a lot of
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options so in this video I'm talking
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about gauges pneumatic versus battery
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and some tips on how to use them that
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have picked up first let's talk gauges
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the gauges you're probably gonna run
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into are 15 16 18 and 23 16 gauge 18
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gauge 23 gauge 15 and 16 are your finish
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nailers 18 is also called your Brad and
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the 23 is called a pin nailer so if
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someone says Brad 18 and 23 finishes
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probably a 15 or a 16 difference between
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15 and 16 is the diameter fifteens a
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little thicker but also I don't have a
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sick of 15 but 16s will have lots of
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breath sixteens will have a straight
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magazine and straight nails whereas the
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15 will be angled and the sizes go
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backwards 15 s largest 23 is the
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smallest because these are wire nails so
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they're actually made from wire that's
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cut and then they smush a head on to it
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so the gauge or diameter comes from the
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wire gauge that they're cut from and
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wire gauges go backwards because of how
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wires made they start with the big wire
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then they passed them three dies and
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each die you know compresses it makes a
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little bit smaller stretches it rather
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so they'd start with zero wire then pull
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it through the first die gauge one
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second I gauge three and as you go
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through more dies you get smaller and
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then they call that the gauge and then
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later on they actually then measured
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what all those gauges was and made
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standards but anyway what gauge do you
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want to use for what
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well a 15 is 16 or what you're most
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likely going to be using for trim and
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finish work so if you're doing finished
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carpentry so baseboard casing crown
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molding chair rails all that kind of
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stuff these are the nails ideal for that
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and again the 15 is angle than the 16
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and next is the 18 gauge the the brad
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nailer most times that you're driving
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trim you're looking at 5/8 to 3/4 of an
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inch thick
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your but that larger nail is probably
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gonna split material that's thinner than
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that so that's when we step up to the
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Brad so that's great for a material
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that's a half inch in thickness or less
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again that smaller nail means it's less
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likely to split and it also means it
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leaves a smaller hole that's easier to
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hide that's why most people in wood work
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when they're using a nailer to just
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attach small pieces or hold things
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together until glue sets I go to a brad
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nailer because it does have a head so it
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has some holding power but it's really
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small so you won't have as obvious of a
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repair after you putty over it then
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apply finish your paint or whatever you
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and then lastly we have the 23 gauge pin
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nailer it shoots tiny nails often they
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are headless but you can also get semi
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headed nails which have a very tiny head
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and this is just for very light duty
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work they have a little bit of shear
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strength the very little pull resistance
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but the nice thing about a pin nailer is
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the nails are so small you can often get
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away without even having to feel the
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heads so for example when I recently did
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100 beer flight boxes and I needed
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something to hold those boxes together
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while the epoxy set and you know I
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didn't have 400 clamps to use I was able
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to just use a couple pin nails than each
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joint to hold the box together while the
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epoxy set were you in very small
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ornamental pieces on furniture building
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doll houses you know that kind of stuff
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where you're gonna be backing it up with
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glue and nailers are fantastic as again
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you won't have to worry about hovering
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up building a bunch of no head spots and
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the other thing to be aware of with
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gauge is the thickness correlate to the
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links available a little bit obviously
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the smaller mill nails will only come in
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shorter sizes the Brad nailers are
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normally shoot 1/2 inch to 1 inch nails
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this range you'll see when you go to the
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finish tailors at 16 normally they're
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available from one inch to two and a
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half inches and in the brad nailer is a
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18 gage you're looking at 5/8 to 2
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inches so you can get the longest
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fastener out of the trim nailer is
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course--if woodworking you're pregnant
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needing a two and a half inch nail for
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the kind of stuff we do but when you're
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shooting three-quarter inch trim then
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through half-inch drywall then trying to
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get into a stud or header or footer you
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know obviously that extra length helps a
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good rule of thumb is whatever thickness
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the material you're shooting through is
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you want a fastener at least twice that
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length which is why the brad nailer
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tends to be what you see in the woodshop
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a lot because a lot of times we're
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dealing with three-quarter or less
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material and that three-quarter inch
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material you know we can get a
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and and a half nail to go through it
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without a problem and if you're just
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trying to hold it on while glue sets
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even a one inch is fine and then when
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we're dealing with you know half inch
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material or less those 1 inch nails or
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going down to 5/8 is perfect is plenty
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enough range you're probably not gonna
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need more than a 2 inch nail the biggest
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I keep on hand is one in 3/4 and I
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seldom bust that out ok next up we're
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gonna talk battery versus pneumatic
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pneumatics have been around a lot longer
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we moved into portable pneumatics past
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load I think was one of the first either
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using co2 cartridges or utan cartridges
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but now battery technology is taking off
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enough that battery nailers are
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available everything from in nailers all
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the way up to framing nailers even of
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course I have a rigid battery operated
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brad nailer ok give them to the details
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and then talk nomadic first these tend
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to be a little less expensive than the
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battery options however you need a
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compressor so if you don't have a
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compressor it could be an added expense
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that you can often get combination kits
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that have a little small pancake
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compressor and two or three different
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mailers first with that compressor that
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means you're tethered you have a hose so
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you got to be pulling a hose around and
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kind of limits you depending on how
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portable your compressor is and where
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you have electricity but they tend to be
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lighter and they tend to shoot a lot
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faster so if I have to shoot a lot of
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nails that's the one time when I pull
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out my nematic instead of using my
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battery these days and as far as
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maintenance goes one thing you have to
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remember is you need to oil these
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everyday when you use them ok now
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jumping over to the battery first thing
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apart notice is this is a lot bigger
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this is a brad nailer there's a
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pneumatic brad nailer this is
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significantly heavier and larger but one
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of the things I get is portability I
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don't have a tether I'm not tied to
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anything and also anywhere that I have
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live batteries or charge batteries I can
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use this I don't have to worry about
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being able to set a compressor plug it
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in keep it charged etc course there's
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some argument to be said for keeping air
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tanks but yeah batteries you're going to
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run a lot longer than little air tanks
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will also these tend to be oil lists
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but on the downside they are a little
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slower so there's not much maintenance
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like so there oilless but the way at
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least mine works I think there's some
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new tech out there but these tend to
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shoot a lot slower normally for the kind
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of things I'm doing it isn't a problem
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and it doesn't slow me down waiting on
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this you a reset the hammer also this
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gun is a little louder than nematic when
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it fires but because I don't have a
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compressor that also means I don't have
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a compressor kicking on so overall when
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you're dealing with the compressor
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cycling the pneumatic tends to be a lot
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louder if you have a loud compressor
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which I mean most of us do I think
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alright getting into tips a little bit
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if you're using a mattock I'm gonna talk
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about hoses this is a PVC hose and
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you'll notice it's quite rigid I mean
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and it tends to kind of want to stay in
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place then kind of return it's not very
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flexible these are pretty inexpensive
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this is the 3/8 internal diameter I
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think so this is a common size you
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normally see if you're going to go PVC I
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recommend getting the really thin
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quarter-inch stuff it handles the
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pressures that you're gonna run these
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guns at just fine and it's lighter and
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more mobile often times that they're
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coiled but if you want a longer hose or
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just a heavier Duty hose get the hybrid
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instead of the poly you see I always get
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the hybrid hoses because I mean they
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just they move they drag around a lot
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easier there's every time I have to use
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a hose like this I end up knocking
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something over or pulling something over
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and then you're fighting the holes hose
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because you're not just having to pull
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it you're having to pull any kinks out
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of it and then you know whoever happened
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to stick their foot inside of it or
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beside it you've got to pull them over
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to get your nailer where you're trying
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to get to you so get hybrid hoses or get
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the really thin hoses not these just
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don't get these
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okay the next tip has to do with how we
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shoot the nails so the way nails are
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held in is just by friction from
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splitting the wood fibers so they go in
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and split the wood fibres then it just
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depends on the width Ivor's hold it
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squeezing them in place so there's
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pretty good shear resistance but there
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is very little resistance to pieces
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being pulled off so I like and what your
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tendency is to do is it seems right to
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just shoot straight so boom um um a
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better way that I picked up for my
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friend Chris a glimpse inside is to
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shoot them at angles and oppose them
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alternating and what we did is just
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created the dovetail shape and what this
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does is instead of just being held in
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place by friction now we're actually
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creating a mechanical joint by having
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this opposing geometry because in order
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to pull this piece off this nail needs
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to move that way but but the nail on the
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other side is opposing it so if you
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shoot all your nails that way as you go
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then your stuffs gonna hold on a lot
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tighter and stronger okay earlier I
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mentioned that these are actually wire
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and then they're pinched off and then
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all glued together so when this what the
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cutter does is it Clips the wire this
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way so you'll notice these have a wedge
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and there's a point in the middle then
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they slope off to the left and right and
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they smush the back to make a head but
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this wedge is important because when you
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put the nails in our gun our wedges on
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the left side and right side so I'm sure
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you've all if you've used a trim nailer
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before you've had blowout well the way
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to prevent that is to keep in mind the
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way the wedge goes so you if I want to
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shoot a nail better example it'd be this
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way I'm always going to shoot it in this
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orientation because this is the way that
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nails are going so that wedge is either
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going to push my nail this way or the or
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that way
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if I shoot it like this no my nails are
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like this and that wedge if it's gonna
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dive it's gonna dive this way or that
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way and that's how I'm gonna get blowout
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so if you're always shooting
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perpendicular to what you want to go
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into then you're never going to have a
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blowout because if this goes
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Bin's it's just still going to go where
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I want it to
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and there you go you can see if you
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when I was really close to the edge
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belong as I had the gun perpendicular
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then it still shot straight through but
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when I was close to the edge even just a
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slight hint and the nails hit some grain
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and blew out the sides don't always make
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sure you go perpendicular and there we
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go that's been an overview of trim
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another so I hope this was helpful a
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little leadside you haven't been in a
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video in a while and you wanted to
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though you having fun yeah ok good
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well I hope you were inspired learning
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something or at least entertained until
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next time make them to make something
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okay we can make some soon you want to
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make your stool
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yeah all right we'll make us
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get down oh yeah oh yeah hurry we're
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gonna paint it yeah wouldn't do that
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soon
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