Roofing Nail Guns
Roofing nail guns are among the more extreme of DIY tools and are often reserved only for the professional contractor. If you are putting together a small chest of drawers or a book case you only really need the effective and affordable services of a standard hammer but if you are attaching a roof to a 2 storey house it could take you weeks to put a few nails in. Roofing nail guns take the burden out of this chore and make your job quicker and simpler so whether you are an amateur or a professional you should bear in mind that you won't get far without using roofing nail guns.
Why bother with roofing nail guns?
Roofing nail guns fire nails into wood or any other material they are specifically designed for meaning it takes a fraction of a second to 'hammer' in one nail. This takes away the hard work and the time normally involved in hammering large amounts of nails. While they are extremely useful they can also be dangerous if not treated properly.
Spring loaded roofing nail guns
Spring loaded roofing nail guns are the simplest and most affordable nail guns you can buy. They are quite simple in their ingenuity and they use some high tensile springs to fire the nails out of the chamber and into the wood. Crude maybe, but highly effective definitely! These roofing nail guns do still use a little electric power to pull back the springs to such an extent that means they will effectively fire with enough pace to lodge into the piece of wood.
Solenoid roofing nail guns
Solenoid roofing nail guns are powered using electromagnetic polarization. When you pull the trigger the polarization in the gun reverses repelling the nail away from the mechanism and into the wood. This is a highly useful technique and is used in many different types of machinery and tools so are proven to work over long periods of time. There are few pieces that are likely to break and leave you with powerless roofing nail guns. This durability is a distinct advantage over the relatively fast wearing spring loaded roofing nail guns.
Pneumatic roofing nail guns
The most popular and widely used type of roofing nail guns are compressed air or pneumatic nail guns. By compressing air in a standard air compressor it can gather huge amounts of power. In pneumatic roofing hammer drills the pressure is used to initially hold the hammer in place so that the nail is not fired but when you pull the trigger this opens a passageway that lets the compressed air out and dispels the nail at great speed. These are the most popular form of roofing nail guns because they only need an air compressor to run. Air compressors can be powered through a number of different means and you do not need to plug pneumatic roofing nail guns into the mains power. This cuts down cost and makes it reliable and more convenient, not to mention safe when it starts to drizzle.
October, 2005
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by Steven Briesemeister. Reprinted courtesy of Roofer 911.com, roofing contractor serving Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, NY and northern Virginia.