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And in Connecticut in August, a nail-gun incident highlighted the importance portacable of training and supervision, as horseplay between two carpenters almost turned deadly. The air New Haven Register reported that carpenter Eric Haslob was in the hospital recovering from nailer surgery to repair his heart portacable after fellow carpenter Joseph Dupont fired a finish nail into Haslob''s heart by accident as the two were fooling around air on the job. A supervisor told nailer the paper he had warned the two friends against horseplay just the day before. Brad portacable nailers shoot skinny nails called brads. Ranging from 3/8 in. to 2 in. long, brads are perfect for most door and air 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 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 A series of accidents involving air-powered nailer nail guns last summer brought home the fact that portacable the productive and powerful tools air are nailer also highly dangerous and need to be handled with respect. In the most tragic case, a framing nail punctured the heart of carpenter portacable and air 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 nailer News-Journal, the accident took place as the two men were framing new portacable homes in a development in Ocean View. Jesus had been bending over a stud wall using the air nailer, and then air straightened up and turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other side of the room as Jesus thought; he was nailer already standing right behind his brother. Camillo made contact with the nose of the nail gun, triggering the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest.
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