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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 craftsmanairnailer results craftsmanairnailer with a brad nailer: no hammer dents in the wood, less splitting, smaller nail holes to fill, and moldings don''t get knocked out of position as you drive nails. For heavier trim (3/4-in. thick moldings, for example), rent a finish nailer, which shoots thicker nails up to 2-1/2 in. long.TIP TIPUse craftsmanairnailer the jackhammer to crack the concrete, not to punch holes. If the chisel bores into the concrete craftsmanairnailer without cracking it, stop and try another spot. Getting a stuck chisel out of solid concrete is a cursing waste of time.Rent the jackhammer''s smaller cousin, a "chipping hammer" ($30 to $40 per day), for lighter tasks: breaking up a few square feet of basement floor for plumbing work or chipping ceramic tile off a concrete floor.Brad nailerCOST: $50 per day with compressorBENEFITS: craftsmanairnailer Better results with less time and effort. "It was just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The craftsmanairnailer young carpenter died at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A nail-gun accident in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nail a 2x4 block onto a column when he lost his balance and fell against the nail gun, which fired two quick nails into his heart. "I just figured I was gonna die," Hatten told local craftsmanairnailer TV station WLOX. "I told my coworker to tell my family that I loved them." But the two framing craftsmanairnailer spikes had narrowly missed major blood vessels, and surgeons were able to remove the nails from Hatten''s heart in a two-hour operation.
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