Bird
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Steve, first off, I'll say that I never worked on nail or brad guns or rivet guns; just automotive air tools (impact wrenches, ratchets, sanders, air hammers, chipping hammer, drills, saws, nibblers, shears, grinders, etc.), but I owned an 18 ga. brad gun and my brother had both brad gun and nail gun that we used building his house, and I think I can safely say you ain't gonna hurt the tool with too much air tool oil, but you might blow surplus oil on the wood or whatever working on. I doubt that we ever put less than a teaspoonful of oil in any of them at a time. Two drops at a time is probably sufficient if you aren't going to use it very long. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif There is the possibility that your relative overloaded the tool with oil and it didn't work; but if he'd just pulled the trigger a few times to blow the surplus out, it would have.