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OPERATIONS
Loading
When replacing nails in your Model H6143, follow these guidelines:
Gauge: 16
Length: 11⁄4" – 21⁄2"
Capacity: 74
To load your nailer:
1.DISCONNECT NAILER FROM THE AIR SUPPLY!
2.Grip the nailer firmly, and pull the magazine pusher back until the catch lever engages, as shown in Figure 3.
Pusher
Catch
Lever
Figure 3. Sliding magazine pusher back
and engaging catch lever.
3.Insert a strip of nails, pointed-end down, into the magazine as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Loading nails into magazine.
4.Slide the nails all the way down to the nose of the nailer.
5.Release the magazine pusher by pull- ing back on the pusher and pushing in on the catch lever.
Operating
If you have not read the safety instruc- tions in this manual, do not operate the nailer.
Before you operate your nailer, place five to six drops of the included oil into the quick connect fitting where the nailer con- nects to the air supply.
To operate your nailer:
1.Connect the air supply to the quick connect fitting.
2.To test for proper nail penetration, hold the nailer perpendicular to the surface of a piece of clean scrap wood that is thick enough for the length of nails you have loaded.
H6143 16 Ga. Finish Nailer |