[Need a bit to drill thru 1/8" steel with a 18 volt drill]

What dia drill? Use 118 deg tip, not 135. Thin metal, clamp a block of alum or hard wood, plastic on backside if u can. Higher speed, n cutting oil. 

[Collated nails]

Perfect, thanks again. 

 

Another question please. Manual shows instruction for bump actuation, and place actuation. Used bump on  shear panels, worked great. Place actuation reads " a nail will fire each time the trigger is depressed as long as the contact tip remains depressed". 

 

Is that to use the no mar tip and slide it along workpiece and fire away?  

 

[Does anyone change their own oil anymore or is that extinct like the dinosaurs]

I always do my own. Truck, wifes car, and VW tdi. I had a ford pinto in the early 80s and was in a hurry so had a jiffy lube type place do it. It was leaking a little in the driveway so drove it up on ramps and looked. They had stripped the drain bolt, so gooped it up with silicone glue and put it back in.  Yep, im paranoid. 

[Leave nothing behind.]

1000 mile move, new world. Old guys take everything with them!  Same size shop, new state, seems I have less room. Must've picked something up during one of the 6 , 2000 mile round trips last summer. Man, what a move. Little pressure washing and a chain saw, looks better.  Ran a lot if conduit, air lines, paint, clean, seal, ...    and,  ran out of money till I can save up for full led lighting. 

[Tool Box for the Garage?]

I have the hf us general 44 top n bottom. Definitely not snap on quality, but it is full of snap on tools. Best thing about the box, lots of room and dont need a forklift to move it. It was not turn key, I pulled every drawer and bent the rear tabs so the drawers detents would keep them from coming out on their own. Worked on the top box, bottom box not so well so shimmed the front casters. I do love the high dollar boxes, not the price or weight. 

[Collated nails]

Gawd. Im an idiot. Lol. was afraid I'd jam it if I did that. Thanks.  😯

[Collated nails]

Been a machinist, engineer for 40 years, just started framing at home. New barn.  never done it. All ok,  I bought a dewalt 692 electric framing gun, works well, but shuts off at 7 nails left in the strip. It says in the manual it does this.  Dumb question time, what the heck do you do with all the short 7 nail strips?  Stack em back in the magazine? Masking tape em together?  Or toss em. Seems like a waste.  Thanks.