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A series of accidents involving air-powered nail guns last summer brought home the fact that the productive and powerful industrial tools are also highly dangerous and need to be handled air 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 nailer that fired industrial the deadly nail.According air to reports in the Delaware News-Journal, the accident took place nailer 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 industrial turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other side of the room as Jesus thought; he was already standing right behind his brother. Camillo made contact with air the nose of the nail gun, triggering nailer and industrial the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest. Brad air nailers shoot skinny nails called brads. Ranging from 3/8 in. to 2 in. long, brads are perfect for most door and nailer 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, and moldings don''t get knocked out of industrial 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 the jackhammer to crack the concrete, not to punch holes. If the chisel bores into the concrete without cracking it, stop and try another spot. Getting a stuck chisel out of solid concrete air 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 nailer a few square feet of basement industrial floor for plumbing work or chipping ceramic tile off a concrete floor.Brad nailerCOST: $50 per day with compressorBENEFITS: air and nailer Better results with less time and effort.
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