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Will a clipped head nailer shoot full round heads

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#1 ·
Hello all. I have had a 28 degree clipped head strip nailer. I have 2 questions. One is it says to use wire weld strips. Can you use strips that are put together with paper? Also can a clipped head nailer shoot full round head nails?
 
#15 · (Edited)
Not even once.

Mr Wizard has an experiment for you though:

Put the paper collated nails in your strip framing nailer and pull the trigger.

Do you have a hypothesis as to what may happen?

Let me give you another important variable in this experiment.

The paper collated nails are set at 30 degrees. Knowing this would you still think it will fire?

I'll tell you exactly what will happen.

The driver blade on your stick nailer will sheer the top front of the head off of the nail, and the driver blade will become stuck between the nail throat port and the shank of the nail.

More than likely, you will drive the nail halfway though the bottom part of the magazine sleeve.

Get out the Allen wrenches now, and a pair of side cutters, and a long thin screw driver.

( and unplug the gun from the air hose before you start working to clear that jamb).
 
#25 ·
What I've found is if they are paper bound and the same angle my old PC will shoot both..I just make sure the mechanism is well lubed.......cuts down on jams

When in doubt just switch to 21st century carpenter......use impact and screws :laughing:
 
#31 ·
Some my paslode strip nailers are at least 10 years old. Paslode change from clip head to round drive about six or seven years ago. We had trouble with the first generation of nails that came out. They would jam in the gun. Paslode has since figured it out and we haven't had any trouble shooting the rounddrives since.