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I recently purchased one of the 3rd generation NV50AP3 nailers and this is definitely the tool to buy. You'll save lots of time, have a much easier time nailing down that felt or house wrap in the wind (been there) and your arm won't hate you. The tool wants to roll over on its side while it's in your hand. I have only used the Hitachi brand caps/nails and can't comment on the generic brands out there.
It weighs significantly less and the nail and cap magazines are better designed to minimize the overall profile of the gun while maintaining almost perfect balance. If you have a coil of nails that looks like someone stepped on it or tossed in the tool trailer under a pile of who knows what you're going to have problems. While finishing, framing, coil-siding, & coil-roofing nailers seemed to be a given I hesitated on buying a cap nailer thinking I wouldn't mind pounding a few caps in by hand. Anyone with coil nails should know this but I've seen some people who just don't understand why they have so many mis-feeds and blame the gun. You have to fight the cap magazine to keep the tool level on your surface. This nail gun is easily one of the more expensive in my garage.
I found a good deal on a used 1st generation Hitachi Plasti-Cap NV50AP nailer and never regretted it. It looks like the cap magazine was added to the side of an existing tool design which throws the balance off. I have put several thousand cap nails through both of these guns and my comment on jams and mis-feeds is simple. Even if you only think you will use this tool one time BUY IT and sell it off when you're finished. I'm not afraid to spend money on a good tool if it helps me do a better job, saves me time, and saves be from a sore arm at the end of the week from pounding thousands of nails. I have to say the balance of the 1st & 2d generation tools are awkward.
take care not to damage or bend your nails and cap rolls and you shouldn't have any problems.
I have another contractor associate that has used mine with great success. You can't compare with hand nailing because you can't do the same kind of job by hand much less as fast. Also there are a lot of tools that require a little bit of skill to get the proper use out of them. I can't imagine what kind of problems the other gentleman had but my experience with this nailer is great. I have done a lot of nailing with this machine and it does a great job. Either I just got an especially good unit or maybe the other gentleman got a bad one.
Thanks again Amazon. After that Amazon wouldn't let me return it because I bought it as a gift and didn't give it to my son for over a month. Never operated properly. The hours he wasted trying this product, he could of hand nailed the whole job. We won't be purchasing another item from Amazon. Never had a problem returning an item that did't work at any other company. Misfires nails thru cap and caps won't feed properly. Brand new gun has never fired a nail in a roof.
Amazon said I was past the return period. They were always glad to assist me. Purchased this item as a gift for my son. After the "Hitachi Brand" nails and caps didn't work, he even bought a box of off brand to try, but had the same experience. Thanks Amazon-A quality company.
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