Hitachi Nail Gun.

I have a DeWalt framing nail gun, 2 inch to 3 1/2 inch nails, 21-degree. Every time I use it the thought crosses my mind to beat it to death with a sledge hammer. :lol: It misfires, and never drives the last 3 to 5 nails! :roll: Now I'm not carpenter by any stretch of the imagination. I was never allowed to do much carpentry work when working, thank God! :lol: So I don't know if all nail guns have this problem, or just the DeWalt.

I'm thinking about buying the Hitachi NR 90 AEPR nail gun. I watched the carpenters frame my daughter's house, and they used Hitachi nails guns. They said Hitachi was the best. Anybody have experience with this gun? Thanks in advance!

According to my son who uses different nail guns all the time it's usually the nails that are the problem, not the gun's. There's cheap ones & better ones.

I use a Paslode gas myself & it works flawlessly but I only use their nail's.

Around here it is pretty much Home Depot, and Lowes. Unless I want to venture all the way to the big city to an industrial supply house. I see Home Depot carries Paslode nails, all I have ever used was Grip-Rite. I don't use this nail gun very much, I avoid carpentry work as much as I can, but sometimes I just can't get out of it. As you may have gathered, I hate carpentry work!

Bought a Paslode because it seemed to be what the professionals use around here. Had it about 12 years and it's been flawless, but I'm not a full-timer. Senco also has a great reputation. Am not familiar with Hitachi......

I have had Paslode and Senco nailers for years. When they get to messing up like that it is usually the driver getting worn. I am lucky that there is a fellow that stops in at our local lumber yard once each month, that rebuilds nail guns. It usually is a flat $25 dollar fee. So check around for someone that repairs nailers. It does not cost much to have them rebuilt.

My Porter-Cable locks out when it's down to the last few nails, to prevent it from jamming. Add another stick of nails and it will shoot the remaining nails from the first stick.

Not sure what you mean by "misfire".

So far, all the tool brands listed below tend to be good quality brands as far as I'm concerned. I have Senco and Paslode, but I've also got Porter Cable and Bostich. My two framing nailers that handle what you are using are Porter Cable and Senco. I wonder if part of your problem might be the brand of nails that you are using? I always shoot a couple of drops of Marvel Oil into the air fitting before I start, and a drop or two every couple hundred nails, but have had misfires that have ended up breaking off and jamming the nail head in between the hammer and its shaft. Talk about maddening, because after opening and disassembling the whole gun, still could not get to it and ended up taking to a tool repair both times at $25 a crack. Senco nails on smaller jobs and nailers do well, as do bostich. But on the larger nails, I've hed the best luck with Paslode, correct angle. There is another brand nail I've used and really like, but I'm bot at home right now and the brand is slippin past my brain fart. I can see the boxes as clear as day, can't see the brand. I need to find a plunger and plunge my brain. I will wake up at about 2 AM, sit up and yell "They are...".

Anyway, I don't know if this will do you any good, but while searching for that brand of nail, I ran across this framing nail review. Has my larger Porter Cable nailer, not my Senco. I love the Porter, but when it breaks a nailhead off and jams, lots of fuming.

You know? I have a buddy that does a lot of side jobs and used to complain about his nuematic tools all the time. I asked what type of oil he was using. He asked "Oil?". I gave him a bottle of Marvel. Ran into him a few days later, he thanked me endlessly. I'm no expert, but will gladly share my experiences in hopes that they are helpful of what works, or what not to do.

Good luck.

Mark
Framing Nailer Review

I've got Senco, Porter Cable, Max and Hitachi Nail guns in my tool trailer. Everything from headless pinners, brad nailers, finish guns, siding guns and 3 1/4" framers. Hitachi is BY FAR the best! I've run hundreds of boxes of nails through em. The only repair I've EVER had on my hitachi's was the time I dropped the framer off the top of my scafolding, and broke the latch off the magazine when it landed on the slab. 2" of duct tape got me through the rest of the day, and $5 at the shop the next morning had me all fixed up. I prefer the coil guns for framing and siding. Some guys don't like the bulk the drum adds, but it's not much wider than the body of the gun, it makes em shorter top to bottom and you only hafta refill %25 as often. My framer is the nv83a, I believe. Very rarely jamb, and if they do, you just flop the loader open and clear it. Never so much as replaced the Orings. It gets fed a steady diet of air, oil and NAILS.

Ben

The guys at the big local lumber yard told me to buy Hitachi so i did. The reason was not that they were all that much better butthat they were that much more rebuildable. I bought a really used one at a pawn shop for $50. Put a $10 kit in it and it has worked awesome!

Mark – IN. Thanks for the link. I only looked around for reviews of the Hitachi guns. In your link I looked at reviews for the DeWalt, 40% of the people had the same problems as I.

I'm a fanatic about oil, in my opinion oil is cheap when you consider what can happen for lack of. Hard for me to believe this DeWalt is wore out, I'll bet it hasn't driven 5 boxes of nails. And that's between two son-n-laws and myself. Yeah that's right I have to furnish them tools, most of the time I have to buy the material too! There are two tool repair shops in the area, one is horrible, and the other is worse! I had a DeWalt die grinder in the one shop for a year, (to the month) before they finally let me know they couldn't fix it. :roll:

Puddles, I've been a carpenter since 1966 and Senco is the best. I have a Senco framing nailer from 1972 and I can get parts for it STILL. Paslode was a close second, but parts were something of a problem. Duofast was one to stay away from. Paslode is made by Signode, which is a steel banding company, while Senco has actual service facilities. Any company that has parts availabel for a forty year old too gets my vote.

The crew that built my house had all Hitachi and 1 off brand (don't remember what brand it was)... Anyway, they swore by the Hitachi and swore at the other one... When I asked why they didn't just get another Hitachi, they said the off-brand one was for the last person in the crew that arrived... Kind of like a penalty for being late...

So, when it came time for me to buy my own (which I did before the house was finished), I bought Hitachi and haven't had a minutes trouble... I've even used Bostich nails...
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I went to Lowe's this morning and bought the Hitachi NR 90 AE. Just hooked it up to try it out. I really like the depth adjustment! Drove maybe 5 nails, and I can already tell the DeWalt was a mistake. Didn't do any carpentry work today on the fence I'm building, drilled the remaining holes, and set the last of the posts, but at first light tomorrow morning I'll give this thing a work out. Lowe's had Paslode nails, but only in 30 degree, so I had to buy the Grip-Rite brand again.

Grip-Rite will be ok... I've used those also...

P.S. Put a drop or two of oil in the gun every hour or so of use... That's what the 'crew' told me... Makes the gun last longer and shoot stronger... <--- their words...
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