3.Pull the trigger and depress the safety yoke mechanism on your workpiece.
4.Before pressing the trigger, make sure your free hand and other body parts are positioned out of the way of a potential path of a nail in case of deflection.
Deflection is caused when grain irregularities, knots or foreign objects inside the wood cause the nail to change its path, resulting in the nail puncturing the surface of the workpiece, as shown in Figure 5.
Besides damaging your workpiece, deflection can cause injury if your free hand is securing the workpiece in the location that the nail deflects.
Figure 5. Example of nail deflection.
5.Pull the trigger. If the nail drove into the wood far enough, continue with your intended operations. If the nail either went too far or not far enough, then go to the Adjusting Depth section on this page.
Adjusting Depth
The nose of the gun houses a depth adjust- ment mechanism for setting the nail depth.
To adjust the depth:
1.DISCONNECT NAILER FROM THE AIR SUPPLY!
2.If the nail is driven too far into the workpiece, loosen the cap screw on the safety nose with a 4mm wrench, as shown in Figure 6.
Safety Nose |
Safety Yoke |
Cap Screw |
Figure 6. Loosening cap screw for depth
adjustment.
3.Slide the safety nose (Figure 6) toward the nailer body to drive nails deeper, and away from the body to drive nails less deep.
4.Tighten the safety nose cap screw each time after making adjustments.
5.Connect to the air.
6.Pull the trigger and depress the safety yoke mechanism on your workpiece to test the depth adjustment.
H6146 34° Clipped Head Framing Nailer |