Educate me on Nail Guns for Trim Work

[5chn3ll]

Not having to go back and bleach bloodstains out of the cracks is another bonus of the hammerless approach.

• You'll still need your trusty hammer, nail set ("center punch") and wood putty. But at least you oughtn't be filling half-moon shaped dents where you missed nails whilst nailing them all in manually...

Both Harbor Freight nailers I've purchased (it's been established that I am a slow learner, so fugoff) had an issue with the trigger mechanism dispatching multiple rapid-fire fasteners, which resulted in countless cases of the damn things jamming up and baseboards bristling with misfired nails.

Other than maybe seeing action as loaners for my sister-in-law - with no eye protection - those things are worthless turds. I still own them, of course, because I'm too cheap to throw away a tool even if it doesn't work worth a damn. This is also why I live my life vacillating between frustration and rage.

[FRUNKenstein]

Ended up buying this Bostitch model at Lowe's for $79:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Bostitch-Smart ... 1000820868

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It gets good reviews as a homeowner-level tool for light trim work. Also bought a 100 foot air hose as the one on the self-retracting reel in my garage is only 25 feet long. For those of you shopping for an air hose on a reel for your garage, BTW, 25 feet is not long enough.

One other thing, if you go to Lowe's to buy one of these, apparently their security measure is to place these guns on the highest shelf, which is above the shelf that's above the display. Think 20+ feet off the ground. The sales associate who had to climb up to get it down flung multiple 4-letter words during the extraction process. I don't think he envisioned starting his day with a forced climb to the rafters.