BOSTITCH Coil Siding Nailer, 1-1-1/4-Inch to 2-1/2-Inch (N66C)

Hasta el momento todo está muy bien, esperemos continuar asi

I recently bought this nailer to assemble 104 standard hive bodies. These are made from pine and have finger joints at the edges using a total of 40 nails per box. 40! The nailer required a compressed air fitting that was not supplied but are common at just about every hardware store.Out of the box it failed. Oh man was this thing bad. I wanted to smash it. Every other nail misfired. Pop, nail goes in. Pop, I get a dent and the nail coil was not advanced into the firing chamber. Pop Pop Pop no nails. Reseat the coil. Pop, one nail, then pop pop pop no nails. Reseat the coil in the right place. Over and over. I was in a bind. I had more than a hundred hives to build and this thing didn't work and I was using Bostitch brand galvanized ring shank nails (2.25" long, similar to the 7P nails used in beekeeping).I then grabbed my trusty can of Tri-Flow and gave the moving parts a good squirt and wiped off the excess. Then reseated the nails.Pop. Nail went in as expected. Pop. Nail #2 goes in, then #3 and then #4. Okay, this is good.A while later it misfired again. PTSD kicking in and I'm ready to smash this thing. Then I realize I ran through the whole coil of nails.I'm on box number two of nails now. ZERO misfires after that first few of that first 3600 nail box. The only time I see a dent and no nail is when I'm at the end of the nail coil. It works! I'm sold!After every roll I just give it a little spray of Tri-Flow and then a couple drops of pneumatic tool oil into the air fitting. I love this thing now.Pros: duh. It's a nail gun and they're awesome when they work.Cons: aside from the slow start, the recoil on the gun after several hundred nails tends to wear the skin at the 2nd knuckle of my right thumb -right next to the web of skin going to my first finger. Ouchie. A bandaid, mole skin, or even just a light mechanics glove will fix this.I've read all the reviews and figured I would get a good one that didn't have problems. I think the problems people were seeing can be solved with proper lubrication. Shooting the nailer right after spraying down the inside of the hatch where the nails run will result in spraying oil or the carrier fluid all over your woodwork so be careful. I spray and then walk away for a while to let it evaporate leaving only the Teflon behind (again, I'm using Tri-Flow). Liquid lubricants will need to have the excess wiped off or you'll get a lot of sprayed oil on your wood. The bees probably won't care but the paint won't stick well.I recommend this gun to any beekeeper that needs to assemble more than a handful of hives.

I have both this one and a hitatchi. The hitatchi is a much nicer gun, but this gun is perfectly functional. IT is light and it seams to work in the cold just fine. I bought it to have a second gun while doing HARDIE board. It works. IF I was going to be doing HARDIE all the time I would stick with hitatchi, but as a decent second gun or even an occasional primary it is just fine. No complaints. Well built.

I built a shed and needed a siding gun to use for Hardie Plank siding. It worked flawlessly. Very strong and very reliable. Best you can get.

I bought this gun to nail on fiber cement siding. I thought it was going to set all nails flush with the surface of the siding. Frankly, I couldn't see how this would be posible since the hardness of studs varies and some nails may hit knots. Also some will miss studs and just strike OSB. I installed the single shot trigger when I got it. Well when using it the nails all vary in in depth, some shoot part way through the siding and some don't go all the way in. I sometimes get doubles. What I had to do was set the pressure low enough so that most the nails shoot close to the surface of the siding and then finish them off with a hammer. Since it's my own house I don't mind the extra time as I think it makes for a tighter lap. It would be a different story if I were applying siding for a living. I own four other Bostich guns and I believe I could get just as good of results using a 2 1/2" nail in my stick framer. However, I believe the siding warranty is void if you use a clipped head nail. I used to own a Bostich coil framer and I'll bet one of those would do just as well as the N66. On the plus side the N66 is a lightweight, well made and easy to handle gun and doesn't require a large volume of air so your compressor doesn't run as much as with a larger gun. I gave it three stars because it was called a siding nailer but mine doesn't perform any differently than my other nailers. Maybe it's just mine but I have tried varying the air pressure and the depth adjustment and have never acheived any consistancy in depth control.12/22/09 Gun is working like it should now. I'm sorry if I misled anyone, I should have read the directions. On one of the forums someone told me I needed more air pressure. I was afraid too much pressure might damage something and they are only 2" nails so I kept the pressure at about 80 psi. Well, after listening to advice on a forum and reading the manual I upped the pressure to 105 psi and adjusted the nail depth all the way up. To my suprise when I shot them they were all consistent in depth, about a 1/4" high. Then I adjusted the depth control down until they shot at the desired depth and now they are very consistent. I'm still getting an occasional double but considering considering price, warranty and everything else I believe it's a five star now.