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Silly Car wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 4:35 pm IMG_0146.jpeg

18v 90mm gas less framing / first fix nailer - plus around 8000 various length nails - courtesy of eBay discount vouchers 15% off IIRC. Hikoki have a spend £xxx get a free etc deal on at the moment, so a third battery is on its way

demographic wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 7:48 pm

Silly Car wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 4:35 pm IMG_0146.jpeg

18v 90mm gas less framing / first fix nailer - plus around 8000 various length nails - courtesy of eBay discount vouchers 15% off IIRC. Hikoki have a spend £xxx get a free etc deal on at the moment, so a third battery is on its way

I have the second fix Hikoki brad gun (25-64mm 16 gauge brads) which although slightly less powerful than the Paslode brad gun is quieter, plus its far and away more reliable.
I have the De-Walt first fix nailer (50-90mm nails) and again wouldn't swap it for a manky old Paslode even if someone paid me.
Plus the bump fire facility (especially on a first fix gun) pisses all over Paslodes non bump fire guns.

The Paslodes are knocking on ￡650-700 and the De-Walt was about ￡260 and I can use the batteries in other tools

Silly Car wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 3:27 pm [
I used it for the first time in anger last weekend to build a stud wall in a loft bedroom to hide the awkward wedge shape alcove. What a beast, 90mm smooth and 75mm ring shank fired to just below the surface, first time, every time. The battery lasted for the entire job, 3.6m wide x 2.6m high, 400mm on centre and there’s probably 50% life left.

In other news, the free 4Ah battery arrived today which is cracking service. I can’t help myself, so I’m currently looking at the Hikoki / Metabo 18v tool range…

demographic wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 6:20 pm

Silly Car wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 3:27 pm [
I used it for the first time in anger last weekend to build a stud wall in a loft bedroom to hide the awkward wedge shape alcove. What a beast, 90mm smooth and 75mm ring shank fired to just below the surface, first time, every time. The battery lasted for the entire job, 3.6m wide x 2.6m high, 400mm on centre and there’s probably 50% life left.

In other news, the free 4Ah battery arrived today which is cracking service. I can’t help myself, so I’m currently looking at the Hikoki / Metabo 18v tool range…

Watch out with that under the surface driving if yer nailing something like OSB sheets on cos it's easy to overdrive fixings into sheet materials and they don't hold as well.
Also often the simplest way to remove sheets of ply or OSB from studs is to punch the nails in deeper , that often means you can take it off in one instead of in little bits.

demographic wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 6:30 pm Its not really doing much harm when you're just nailing studs together but deffo something to keep an eye on when nailing OSB on.
Worth getting a nail bar to remove misplaced nails also.
Ive kissed a few frogs as far as nailbars are concerned and IMO the best ate the foot long Estwing ones.
Piss all over the fancy pants Stiletto Titanium jobbie.

demographic wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:41 pm Expensive, nice and lightweight but the claws on the long end are a bit shite.

About a third of the price, a bit heavier on the belt but just designed right.


Well, apart from the blue rubber bit, I just cut that off with a knife.

Yorick wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 6:38 pm

demographic wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 6:30 pm Its not really doing much harm when you're just nailing studs together but deffo something to keep an eye on when nailing OSB on.
Worth getting a nail bar to remove misplaced nails also.
Ive kissed a few frogs as far as nailbars are concerned and IMO the best ate the foot long Estwing ones.
Piss all over the fancy pants Stiletto Titanium jobbie.

Nailbars and stilettos?

Sounds like @gremlin

Skub wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 8:14 pm

demographic wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:41 pm Expensive, nice and lightweight but the claws on the long end are a bit shite.

About a third of the price, a bit heavier on the belt but just designed right.


Well, apart from the blue rubber bit, I just cut that off with a knife.

Ammonite?

MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:29 pm A pair of hose clamp pliers, I'm fed up of clamps pinging out of normal pliers and or me pinching my palm

dern wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 5:01 pm Very excited about this. Done mig before but wanted to learn tig. The seller gave me a lesson on aluminium and stainless that has give me loads of confidence. Have a load of off cuts and now it’s practice time…

MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 6:29 pm A pair of hose clamp pliers, I'm fed up of clamps pinging out of normal pliers and or me pinching my palm

dern wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:15 pm You can give me tips or take the piss if you like but this was literally my first half an hour so...

ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:39 pm

dern wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:15 pm You can give me tips or take the piss if you like but this was literally my first half an hour so...

Bucket of water next to you where you're welding. This serves two purposes:
1, Can put fires out.
2, Can plunge you hand, arm, foot or head in it when you get molten metal in your glove, sleeve, boot or nostril.

Get some bits of thin steel plate (1 & 2mm) & go burn rods for an hour a day for two weeks.
Then start on the aluminum once you have the muscle memory sorted from the steel plate.

You could also buy some flux coated brazing rods & burn those too if you don't want to use all your Argon etc... talking of which, where's the gas bottle & flow meter?
Also:
Some welding places sell kits of all sorts of gubbins for TIG welders so you don't have to buy a bunch of separate items. Not sure if one is available for your machine though.