wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Back in the early seventies I was one of three people in my telephone company yard that was licensed to use the Hilti powder actuated hammer. Now in Texas you can buy one and the loads at any hardware store.
I still think there should be a licensing of some sort for their use. The reason is grabbing a hot load and holding the gun for lack of a better term just a little off plumb can send concrete and a very very hard nail out like a BB in a boxcar.
I carry a Remington on my truck with loads and nails along with studs. Probably the most unusual use I've found that ya'll might find interesting is attaching aluminum plate to steel where conventional methodology is inconvenient or undoable.
I built some cabinets into a fence line. We had brick columns and an angle iron lentil with brick betweem the columns. I wanted the cabinets to be water proof. So I made the top and back out of eighth inch aluminum broken to fit. Drilling and taping existing four by four by half inch angle iron to attach the aluminum plate was out of the question. So I got out the Remington. I drilled three sixteenths holes in the plate where I wanted to attach it to the lentil. Using short nails and washers designed for attaching to steel and a very hot load it was a done deal in a matter of minutes. BTW I learned it was very very very very very very important to predrill the aluminum plate. Even though the aluminum is soft attempting to go through it and into the steel didn't work worth a flip
I still think there should be a licensing of some sort for their use. The reason is grabbing a hot load and holding the gun for lack of a better term just a little off plumb can send concrete and a very very hard nail out like a BB in a boxcar.
I carry a Remington on my truck with loads and nails along with studs. Probably the most unusual use I've found that ya'll might find interesting is attaching aluminum plate to steel where conventional methodology is inconvenient or undoable.
I built some cabinets into a fence line. We had brick columns and an angle iron lentil with brick betweem the columns. I wanted the cabinets to be water proof. So I made the top and back out of eighth inch aluminum broken to fit. Drilling and taping existing four by four by half inch angle iron to attach the aluminum plate was out of the question. So I got out the Remington. I drilled three sixteenths holes in the plate where I wanted to attach it to the lentil. Using short nails and washers designed for attaching to steel and a very hot load it was a done deal in a matter of minutes. BTW I learned it was very very very very very very important to predrill the aluminum plate. Even though the aluminum is soft attempting to go through it and into the steel didn't work worth a flip
