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Nail removing gun.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...825#post119200
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...489#post117099
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...376#post107211
I’d like to know how that was made.
Fromthe looks of it the thing is nothing more than a standard nail gun without the feed and with a slightly different shaped nose and striker that allows the tool to be placed over the protruding nail point.Quote:
Originally Posted by PDXsparky
Pretty useless tool for most things, actually as you still would need to first remove the board with a pry bar then make sure the nails were straight enough for the nose to slip over the nail.
Might work fine for #6 to #8 finishing nails in trim boards but I would imagine you would need 2 or 3 different sized noses for larger nails if it would even have the power to drive framing sized nails out of 2x4's
Plus there is the fact that each nail shot out of the lumber becomes potentially lethal or at the very least injurious projectiles
Apparently pneumatic, otherwise like a lock cylinder punch. Piercing through the wood, instead of prying from opposite side, after driving with hammer. Useless to some, others who reclaim material in volume, might find this helpful.
However;
I didn't see any reference to wood thickness, I expect the general use is on 2" lumber. Their site text is poorly drafted, repetitive, lacks effective proof-reading.
It's a perfect example what I call "long listing"; extolling obvious but questionable virtues.
Anyone of us could stick a nail-sized rod in a tube and whack with a hammer, accomplishing same effect, probably close to same rate per minute. It would also be more compact, portable, save lugging compressor, and save $50+ for a real tool...Compared to long-listing, those aren't imaginary benefits.
A more useful tool already exists, that drives individual nails, to clinch foot and head of close spaced cripples, near door frames, and frequently corners of stick frame construction.
It's a long tube, ID accepts head of 16d or 20d nails, a rod with a striking head...a simple design.
I'd find a small ID tube with a thick enough wall to notch a 'loading port' to save fully withdrawing the drive rod. Visualize a single shot bolt action rifle. An alternative would reinforce area around port with a close fitting sleeve.
Very similar to a pneumatic pop rivet gun.
That’s what I initially thought, but don’t pop rivets work by pulling the pin out rather than push the pin in?Quote:
Originally Posted by owen moore
If I was going to use something like that, it would be over a container to catch the nails that are expelled from the work.
I have used the tool you described to attach baseboard heaters to walls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Ahhh HAH! My IIRC was right for once? They were popular for quite some time, haven't seen one for quite some time. Maybe next company awaits expiration of patent.Quote:
Originally Posted by PDXsparky
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Holy crap that machine is almost scary, but still really cool.
That's a real nail biterQuote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Safe enough for me, long as operator stays awake. Foot-pedal and housing over linkage to jaws; without usual crop of OSHA encumbrances. Asian characters [lower left] made things clear, time invested time to build a machine recycling near useless lengths of pallet grade material. Probably nails too. Cannot visualize profitable use.
What a fabulous resume entry...Harvested mountains of scrap; yesterday, today, tomorrow, and day after that. Kept my fleshy bits out.
Finish library visit, all the while trying to imagine 'why'. Maybe, not knowing where all the pelletized fuel comes from, wagering that output is hammer milled or shredded. But they'd eat those nails, and filter over a Bunting/ Eriez grate or disc.
Agreed, the scraps of short lumber pieces are probably destend to be chipped and pressed into pellets or possibly chip boards or ground to become particle boards the low moisture content of used or aged lumber would mean the resins used in production processes would not have to compete with the higher moisture of raw lumber. These scraps could also be destined to be charred to become charcoalQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Oh yeah, particle board [MDF]. World market can't get enough of that furniture!
not so long back we would have discarded that piece of wood , now we even recycle the used nails.
I wouldn't have discarded it because it can be fuel for a fire, but I probably wouldn't have saved it to use as construction material.Quote:
Originally Posted by ranald
Reminds me of a dentist I once went to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
As a child growing up in S.E. Qld (in late 50's early 60's), I spent much time in "the bush" and I was curious about all the fallen trees my brother & I had to negotiate while exploring so asked my father why there were so many fallen trees left to rot and house the dredded snakes. Apparently the times dictated that eucalypts, corymbias, silky oaks and the like weren't worth the effort of forresters to collect and were fallen in order to gain access to more valuable species like Toona (Aust'n Red Cedar), Beech and the like. Even then "northern silky oak" was considered the poor mans cedar in furniture. I guess "not so long back" is in planet terms and our lifetime.Quote:
Originally Posted by PDXsparky
It is interesting to see today, plants like Laminex that have chips that bull dozers climb & stack/push up into small mountains.
Not detracting your comment, but also interesting, all pallets I have seen, from overseas, are made of softwood & have little "fire power" so that pallet looking board would be destined here, for chipping i would think. In saying that, of course I would have given almost anything to have a couple of those boards when fishing on a beach in OUR mid winter when it is only about a couple of deg or zero. The soueasters cutting through a spray jacket seem to reduce the real temps.
Times HAVE changed.
Cheers
Are they saving the wood, or the nails?
The wood only looks OK for fire wood.
Carl.