ChrisK

Good for you Mike! When we have ours I'm doing the sam thing. Nothing worse than listening to people talk about garbage or when your talking they are messaging or tweeting instead of making eye contact.

Well you could post them in the for sale part of the forum. You could also reach out to habitat and see if they could use the tools. Sometimes, those tools are exactly what they need!

Frame rail. Cow toilet. Same thing. Geesh.

I can't speak to Ridgids but I did have a Ryobi Airstrike Brad. It was a great nailer that I bought used and eventually the firing pin began to not retract. I ended up using some nail gun lubrication which helped out quite a bit. Anyways. They make a great cordless nail gun. Ridgid is backed by lifetime warranty IF you buy from HD and IF you register.

Is that a cracked from rail?

This is my social media. I don't belong to anything else. No Twitter, no Facebook no nothing. I don't need to read everybody else's garbage. Makes me a little less in "the know" but I am okay with that. My wife is carrying our first child, I'm getting ready to retire in 2 yrs 2 mos and I need to focus on what is important. Heck, I don't even have the apps for this forum and I'm a mod. I use the mobile site almost exclusively and sometimes the desktop site.

Yup. No pics...it didn't happen. Ask Roswell.

Oh and one more thing! Milwaukee, as I have said repeatedly, has a huge 12v line. Bosch comes in second. And whereas Milwaukee looks to really stick with specific tasks and trades, excelling in specific task oriented tools for some reason, Bosch has always had more tools for the woodworker available. Not a lot of tools but quite a few. The new circular saw they have is gorgeous and their jig is supposed to be the best 12v jig on the market with many advanced features.

Same here Kruton. When it comes to what I do, the Bosch 12v line offers more of what I need and in a more compact body. Might not have the torque of the M12 but I'm not driving lags or burrowing holes with an auger bit. If I were a tradesman I could totally see going Milwaukee, IR cameras, special tube cutters and the like I get it, but when I'm building a bookcase or a table, I get the job done. I am seriously thinking about heading off more with the Dewalts in the larger tools for the big stuff but for 12v I am staying blue!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Well......I AM wonderful

To be honest, I would never use a finish nailer in the construction of furniture building. The gauge is to large. In all honesty the nail is just being used to hold the two pieces together while the glue hardens which actually creates the solid joint. Think of this, the glued panels create a stronger joint than the wood itself. That's why if you've ever tried to pull a piece of molded paneling or decorative wood working from a panel it literally tears the wood fibers apart. The glued joint normally isn't the failure. For furniture work I would really stick to the Brad and the 23 gauge pinner. I have the 18v Makita pinner for those fine pieces where even a Brad might be too large. Also, if building a carcass, I would much rather use a screw over a nail. The finish nail gun shines when being used to moldings on walls, doors, windows etc. That's why I love my 20v Dewalt DCN660. I would be remiss in saying that my finish nailer isn't an important tool in my shop, I just don't use it for furniture work! I know you specifically asked about the Brad vs. Finish but it looks like your speaking to furniture building. If furniture is number one, I'd go with the pinner (23g) and the Brad (18g). I would most certainly grab a finish nailer though if you are doing general carpentry or finish carpentry.

Todd, Bosch will have the new EC out this month I think? But....you can buy it on eBay for something like $120 with free shipping for the tool only. Metabo can be bought from Amazon UK but the charger is of a Euro design and won't work here in the US. Hilti has a new 12v line but they are not brushless. It is pretty slim right now but it's changing....slowly. I think for now the only readily available ones are the Milwaukee and you can mail order the Bosch and Makitas.

Awwwwwww

Oh and one more thing....if you decide to nail and box in your oil tank, which I wouldn't do without an access point, I would use the Ramset to fasten your vertical studs on the flat. Then you can screw the studs to the edge of the flat stud.

This is the Ramset we used. You can get them at HD and Lowes or instead, you can just rent one. It's a tool you will probably use very infrequently. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ramset-Cobra-0-27-Caliber-Semi-Automatic-Powder-Actuated-Tool-16941/202046591

Timmy, you can use a Ramset gun to mail into concrete. My brother and I used one to farm out his entire two bay (sniff...sniff...it pains me Lord, oh how it pains me) garage for stalls. We used the Ramset to put floor joists down and ran the wall frames up to the ceiling joists and nailed them in place. i would add though, be careful about framing in your oil tank. They leak sometimes, oil can be spilt etc. and not being able to access the tank might be a problem. I used my Dewalt hammer to drive tap cons into my foundation wall to hang some particle board walling for my shop. On the souther wall, because of some cast iron pipes, I decided to make free floating walls. I built the walls on the ground and just secured the upper wall to the ceiling jousts. On the back side of the wall I used horizontal support / spacers secured mid way and at the bottomto offer support to the wall to keep it from kicking in so to speak. The space I left behind was about 18" and I can actually take the wall down if I have to service pipes and still have a wall to secure a shelf to as well as a box level an a couple of shelves I made to hold jigs and the like. Additionally I placed a metal wall hanging cabinet on that was for DC bags, battery storage, books. Instruction manuals (unread of course) for all of my tools, extra cutters for my Domino etc.

Nose boogie

Dude, that's one heck of a roll! Good for you man!

Yeah Jason, I'd love to get those two yellow guys. High on my list but I didn't jump on the 15% off deal

Wow! Jimbo is scoring some serious tools!

Andrew, in my humble opinion, if your going to be building furniture I would recommend a Brad nailer. Finish nailers are great but leave larger holes to be patched up and they nailers are thicker. With a Brad you can get really small fasteners to that work. Just an opinion but there you go!

Eeeewwwwwwwwwwwww...... Exciting!

Look at it as saving 40 and still having at a minimum there and half years on the warranty!

, yup need 25 posts and a paypal account. Please, be more social!