3.Pull the magazine cover back until it stops.

4.Insert a strip of nails, pointed-end down, into the magazine as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6. Loading nails into brad

magazine.

5.Slide the nails all the way down to the nose of the nailer.

6.Push the magazine cover forward until the magazine latch locks it in place.

Operating

3.Depress the safety nose mechanism against your workpiece.

4.Before pulling 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 deflec- tion.

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 7.

Besides damaging your workpiece, deflection can cause injury if your free hand is in the path of the deflecting nail.

If you have not read the safety instruc-

 

tions in this manual, do not operate the

 

 

 

Figure 7. Example of nail deflection.

nailer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

Pull the trigger.

Before you operate your nailers, place

 

five to six drops of the included oil into the

— If the nail drove into the wood far

quick connect fitting where the nailer con-

enough, continue with your intended

nects to the air supply.

 

 

operations.

Framing & Brad Nailer

 

 

— If the nail either went too far or not

 

 

far enough, then go to the Adjusting

 

 

 

1. Connect the air supply to the quick con-

Depth section on the next page.

nect 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.

 

 

 

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