Bostitch MIIIFN 1-1/2- to 2-Inch Pneumatic Flooring Nailer
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Pneumatic Nailer
The nailer worked fine. I used it alongside a manual nailer and it was worth the extra cost. Also the NO-MAR attachment made the tool a breeze to use and lived up to its name.
fast and easy to use
nailer required the handle extension to be installed after receipt but the installation was easy, only four bolts. the prefinished flooring plate was not installed and the instructions for this were not as clear as they could have been, but even so it took but a few minutes to figure it out and install. the prefinished flooring plate makes a simple and fast job of intalling prefinished flooring and protects the flooring from damage. if not extremely careful nailers w/o the special plate tend to mar the flooring. i would highly recommend this product for ease of use, quality of product, and performance.
A great nailer with some minor flaws
We bought this nailer to install 1800sqft of hardwoods in our house. Here’s our experience:
Pros:
Beefy. You can tell it’s made for the pros. And you can smack it hard to help get warped boards tight.
It does exactly what it’s supposed to.
The included mallet feels like high quality, and its just the right weight.
Cons:
We had a lot of problems with the nailer allowing the last nail in a stack to fall out of the nailer. This is a problem because it can fall half way out, then when you put the nailer down on the finished floor, it’s easy for the sharp nail to scratch the finish. Get in the habit of setting the nailer on the unfinished part of the floor.
The nailer includes a plastic shoe that bolts to the underside. The instructions say this is for finished floors whereas the normal plate is for unfinished (site finished) floors. The shoe was useless for us. It made it nearly impossible to line up the nailer with the tongue. The normal plate didn’t scratch the floor at all. So we used it that way. Maybe softer woods would have scratched (we used distressed oak).
Having to attach the handle was annoying. It also seems like a clunky afterthought. But once installed, it worked fine.
If you don’t smack it with a hammer hard enough, it won’t drive the nail in all the way in. If it’s half way out, you can use channel lock pliers to pry the nail out. But if you get it 90% of the way in, you’ll have to use a nail set to drive the nail in the rest of the way so that the next board fits. This is a real pain. The nail metal is soft. It likes to deform or break off. This is more operator error than anything else. So smack it hard.
How it could be better:
Stop letting the last nail fall out.
Make the nail cartridge slightly longer so you can put the next stack of nails in sooner.
Redesign the handle.
What we learned:
For wood floors, wider is better. 5″ wide boards mean half the cutting, fitting, and nailing compared to 2.5″ wide boards.
Also pick up a finish nailer to help when you’re close to walls. If you take the rubber guard off, a finish nailer can nail through the tongue just like this nailer. Less face nailing.
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