Tom Baugues
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So I just purchased my first air operated nail gun (WEN 18 gauge brad nailer) for a project here at our home. I never assume I know everything so I figured I would flip through the instruction manual to see if there might be something in there that would teach me something that I didn't already know or was common sense. I'm looking at the safety instructions (on page 5) and I see #13 that tells me to basically make sure the air is ON before loading the nails into the chamber of the gun. This I found to be odd as I assumed I should do that with the air disconnected....so I tell myself...hmm I did not know that so I did indeed learn something about safely using a tool that I had never used before.
I continue to flip through the manual until I see (on page 8) about how to properly load the nails into the gun and it warns me to ALWAYS load the gun with the air disconnected. Now that's just the opposite of what it said a few pages earlier.
Common sense tells me to load the gun with the air disconnected but for a newbie...which way is correct?
I continue to flip through the manual until I see (on page 8) about how to properly load the nails into the gun and it warns me to ALWAYS load the gun with the air disconnected. Now that's just the opposite of what it said a few pages earlier.
Common sense tells me to load the gun with the air disconnected but for a newbie...which way is correct?