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I bought it. So far I like it. It’s like a sawzall but a jig saw. My first use was finishing the cuts on stair stringers. I actually found it accurate and a joy to use.
Thanks for the feedback, I was hoping to hear about this saw. Looks great.
What’s the balance like? Does is tip forward when holding with one hand?
What about the vibration?
I find it easy to hold. Pretty smooth. The stroke is shorter than a full size sawzall.
I really do not understand the want for battery only framer, the current paslode is so solid and light. The dewalt needs to be
bolted to the wood to sink a nail and the Hitachi is too heavy and big to be even a boat anchor. I mean wants the point of cutting the cord if the tool weighed so much. I have speed on the dewalt battery trim guns. One has to hold them to hard to the work for them to sink the nail.
I am pretty happy with my Subcompact Recip.
The tool feels great, has tons of power and excellent balance. The stroke length is better than other compact tools.
I wish the shoe was adjustable, but that’s the only real fault.
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glass wrote:
On 2/25/2018 at 2:10 PM, glass said:I really do not understand the want for battery only framer, the current paslode is so solid and light. The dewalt needs to be
bolted to the wood to sink a nail and the Hitachi is too heavy and big to be even a boat anchor. I mean wants the point of cutting the cord if the tool weighed so much. I have speed on the dewalt battery trim guns. One has to hold them to hard to the work for them to sink the nail.
Two big reasons. One 3.5 inch nails that are code in some places for some connections, and if you dont use it every day gas spoilage is an annoying issue.
I am not a pro but have enough property that running a compressor everywhere is not particularly practical. I would probably already have a paslode if they drove 3.5 nails and the gas didnt spoil.
Would be much easier for me to grab a battery from my current system(makita) and go to town on whatever needs it.
I highly doubt the kind of work you do, property management requires 3.5” nails too often. Paslode shoots 3 1/4. For big beam work like production nailing of 2lvls ie 3 1/2” it is better suited to pneumatic. For the record the industry standard hitachi nailers only shoot 3 1/4”. Gas has never been an issue for me as the dates are incredibly long, it’s more of a hyped problem on boards like this.
glass wrote:
4 hours ago, glass said:I highly doubt the kind of work you do, property management requires 3.5” nails too often. Paslode shoots 3 1/4. For big beam work like production nailing of 2lvls ie 3 1/2” it is better suited to pneumatic. For the record the industry standard hitachi nailers only shoot 3 1/4”. Gas has never been an issue for me as the dates are incredibly long, it’s more of a hyped problem on boards like this.
Actually the hitachi nailer i have shoots 3.5 inch nails.(nr90aes) I know the 83s do not.
You are right most of the time I probably wont need the length but better to have it when I do. So do the new hitachi and dewalt cordless guns.
Cant speak to the gas issue from personal experience. Just seen a lot of complaints on it.
Back on topic- good to hear about the subcompact recip. Would make a nice complement to the big x2 unit i have.