hless Straight Finish Nailer


Aimed at: Professional second fix carpenters, shopfitters etc Pros: No trigger lag, powerful enough to drive a 65mm nail, light and very effective. Try one – amazing!


Safety with nailers is very important and the instruction booklet is


comprehensive as well as very careful to point out the safety requirements when loading nails or unblocking a nail stoppage for example. You really can’t say you didn’t know. On the back inside of the operating handle is a little display panel that informs


the user of several things. First of all, in the middle is the power switch. Once a battery is installed, this is where the tool is turned on or off. Next to this is a battery indicator switch that shows via a couple of LEDs what the state of the battery is – if it blinks at you then it is time to recharge the battery. Finally, there is a mode switch to select single or continuous firing modes.


Continuous mode is great – just push the machine into the workpiece and it fires – it makes for very fast work. An extra layer of safety is added by the


addition of another on/off switch on the handle. This is deeply recessed to avoid being switched accidentally and it does mean that careful users will always show that they are ready to use the machine intentionally and it helps keep little fingers from fiddling and unintentionally firing the nail gun. Another feature on the body is a reversible


hook for hanging the machine on a handy rafter or whatever. The hook itself can be folded away so that it does not catch. Packed with features as it is, the Hitachi


NT1865DBSL cordless nailer will, in my view, be purchased for one thing only – its sheer performance. With an instant response to the trigger and proper nail driving power it’s a gutsy tool that will deliver again and again.


a couple of strips – easily enough to be getting on with work without too many interruptions. The business end of the nailer – the all-important hammer pin and nose


mechanism - is strongly made in cast metal and plastic. I particularly liked the optional round plastic nose on the end of the firing head. It is mounted on two sprung metal columns that have to be pushed at least 12 to 15mm down onto the work for the trigger to fire – this makes it hard to accidentally fire the nailer. Secondly, the plastic nose gives you a sort of target to aim at where the nail should go, so it was easy to be more accurate in placing your nails, and it also protected the workpiece from damage. If I used this machine regularly I would be tempted to keep this cap on permanently. I actually never needed to remove the nose cover for real to unblock a nail


stoppage despite using all of the nails that were sent with the test machine (firing nails effortlessly into a fencepost can be quite therapeutic as well as being called research) but when I did it just to check how to do it, the process is simple and involves pushing the lock lever forward which unhooks the nose assembly, revealing the stuck nail. Setting the depth for nail driving is done via a knurled wheel on the nose – it


takes a bit of trial and error depending on timber hardness and nail size but is not difficult to do.


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