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A series of accidents involving air-powered nail guns last summer brought home the fact that the productive and powerful tools are also highly dangerous and need to be handled with respect. In the most tragic case, a framing nail punctured the heart of carpenter Camillo Juandelos on a home construction site in Ocean View, Md., in July, ending the man''s life at the age of 25. Police said Camillo''s brother Jesus was holding the gun that fired the deadly nail.According to reports in the Delaware News-Journal, the accident took place as the two men were framing new homes in a development in Ocean View. Jesus had been bending over a stud wall using the air nailer, and then straightened up and turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other airnailernails side of the room as Jesus thought; he was already airnailernails standing right behind his brother. Camillo made contact with the nose of the airnailernails nail gun, triggering the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest. And in Connecticut in August, a nail-gun incident highlighted the importance of training and supervision, as horseplay between two carpenters airnailernails almost turned deadly. The New Haven Register reported that carpenter Eric Haslob was in the hospital recovering from surgery to repair airnailernails his heart after fellow carpenter Joseph Dupont fired a finish nail into Haslob''s heart by accident as the two were fooling around on the job. A supervisor airnailernails and airnailernails told the paper he had warned the two friends against horseplay just the day before. Brad nailers shoot skinny nails called brads. Ranging from 3/8 in. to 2 in. long, brads are perfect for most door and window trim, baseboards and other moldings. Aside from speed, you get better-looking results with a brad nailer: no hammer dents in the wood, less splitting, smaller nail holes to fill, airnailernails and moldings don''t get knocked airnailernails out of position as you drive nails. For heavier trim (3/4-in. thick moldings, for example), rent airnailernails a finish nailer, which shoots thicker nails up to 2-1/2 in. long.TIP
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