PASLODE PRODUCT REVIEW - BY PETER BRETT PASLODE is almost a generic term in a wide range of industries


Paslode IM360Ci – Don’t Give Up the Gas!


I ALWAYS think that cordless nailers are a bit like wrestlers – beefy, but they also pack a big punch.


Paslode nailers are legendary in the building industry, not only for packing the punch, but also for being a leading brand.


In fact, I have often heard builders refer to any nailer as a PASLODE, because it has become a generic term – like people referring to hoovers, rather than vacuum cleaners.


The new-ish Paslode IM360Ci was designed to be diff erent and address a few of the problems that plague gas nailers. These include low temperature performance, battery and fuel life, and general ease of use involving loading nails to clearing stoppages.


Problem solved?


Builders have often told me they have had to start a winter working day by having to cuddle a few batteries in their jacket pockets - so they are ready to load into a nailer.


Well, this problem has defi nitely been solved. During this tool’s development phase Paslode used it in working temperatures of -25C in Northern Europe/


Scandinavia, without having to do any warming of batteries or fuel cells.


I tried my best to


replicate this by placing the nailer in the freezer


overnight at a temperature of –15C - only to succeed in getting a layer of frost over the battery terminals.


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But with the frost removed, the tool worked to full capacity within a very short time. So, a large tick in that particular box.


Battery life? Well again, this is a problem that Paslode seem to have solved – and with knobs on!


In the spec it said the battery would power up to 13,000 shots on one charge. For any user that is a lot of nails.


I had a team of users on a building site who tested out the tool for four days without recharging the battery.


I felt there was a danger they would run out of power, simply because there was such a large amount of time between charges that they might forget to recharge - despite warning light indicators of gas and charge.


- PRODUCT REVIEW BY PETER BRETT-


They made the weak excuse that the indicator light needed to be brighter and more obvious!


What users also liked a lot in the new design of nailer was the removable nail magazine cover. You simply unscrewed it via a black knob on the rear of the nail magazine.


Flip up the cover, and the inner workings of the nail magazine are revealed all the way to the nose (it goes without saying the nailer is eff ectively stopped by moving the battery to the off ’ position in its slot).


From here, it is very easy to remove any nails that might be causing a blockage.


The safety gains are excellent here, because it means you don’t have to start fi ddling into the nose with a spare nail to access anything stuck in there.


A Few Things…


Although Paslode have solved a lot of the usability issues with batteries and stoppages, my team of testers managed to fi nd a few things that bugged them.


Firstly, the reversible rafter hook worked well in one position, but www.toolbusiness.co.uk


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