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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
First and not The last Milwaukee Tool I'll buy !!!
First time ever using a nail gun and I was imediately impressed. Not one Jam up and smooth operation. Light and very little recoil.
I did look at the dewalt brad nailer and I also love Dewalt tools, However this tool was favored a little more than the Dewalt. Price difference between the two tools was nothing to compare almost equal.
I can tell...
Published on April 10, 2007 by Alton Brown jr.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Brads not fully driven into wood. Disappointed. Same problem with replacement unit.
I bought this nailer on the strengths of all the 5 stars awarded by other reviewers. So with great anticipation, I waited for it to arrive. Then I was deeply disappointed when even with pressure set to the maximum 120 PSI and depth adjustment turned all the way for maximum penetration, the heads of the brad remained above the wood. I shot over 50 brads with this...
Published 21 months ago by NaCl
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
First and not The last Milwaukee Tool I'll buy !!!, April 10, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
First time ever using a nail gun and I was imediately impressed. Not one Jam up and smooth operation. Light and very little recoil.
I did look at the dewalt brad nailer and I also love Dewalt tools, However this tool was favored a little more than the Dewalt. Price difference between the two tools was nothing to compare almost equal.
I can tell this tool will last. One more thing to add is Milwaukee has a warrenty for three more years than Dewalt. That is a total of five years. Dewalt only two.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Most Excellent, March 8, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
Like other magnesium headed brad nailer's this gun produces almost no recoil. Another great feature, not publicized, is that it will not fire without nails (dry fire). The only minor problem for users of other guns is that the safety is behind the actual place the nail is fired from...but after a very short time you will be used to that. The no mar head on the safety is very good too. All in all a great gun...I ordered a second one already. [I am a finish carpenter by trade of 30+ years]
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Milwaukee does it again!, January 9, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
what can I say! This is the best air nailer I have ever owned! I have Senco's BEST finish nailer and it is a distant second fit, finish and feel to my Milwaukee brad nailer.
I only regret not being aware of the Milwauke line up before I purchased my Milwaukee!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Typical Milwaukee quality, March 17, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
This tool is a typical Milwaukee tool. Everyday you pick it up, it works. It has great power and effortlessly drives 2 inch brads in solid oak. I've been running on 80 - 85 psi which is more than reasonable. The depth adjustment is not precise, but most aren't. On balance, a good nailer at a cheap price when you consider how long it is likely to last. Many are cheaper, very few are better.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
great nailer, May 3, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
This is a great brad nailer. It is light and well balanced. I like the fact that the air discharge is out of the handle below the air intake. I have used it to build several cabinets and it is fun to use. I have not had a single mis-fire or had to hammer in a nail. It has a sequential fire mode which seems to work well, although I usually use the single fire mode. Awesome tool.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Great Nailer one miner problem, January 12, 2008
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
This nailer is all it said it would be. I am a contractor and have been useing a grip rite nailer. It would get into tighter places then the Milwakee but after every 50 nails you would have a jam. How nice it is not to have to un jam a gun. I have shot probably about 1500 nails already and never one jam how awseome. Now for the miner problem, when I got the nailer it didn't seem to always want o set the nail unless I had the gun kinda tiped forward it was like the safty would not go down far enough even after adjustment I had the problem. It might have been that my old nailer sat different but none the less I was disapointed. After messing with it awhile I was able to modifie the safty alittle higher and have not had a problem sence. I highly recomend this nailer.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Typical good Milwaukee quality, November 7, 2006
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
I purchased this item with the Milwaukee angled finish nailer. As I mentioned in the finish nailer review the Milwaukee nailers are similiar in design to the Ridgid in my opinion. You will need to purchase and install an air fitting for this nailer. I installed a swivel connector similiar to the one on the Ridgid nailer which is available at most home and tool centers. The brad nailer is well balanced and has a magnesium housing. The unit comes with a nice cary case that holds your brads also. The operation is fine and what I would expect from a quality tool.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
light-weight, big performance, January 9, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
This was purchased to replace a Bostich which failed prematurely.
The unit is light weight and drives 2 1/2" nails in maple without effort.
All features are well engineered. Loading, setting depth, and jammed nail removal are all simple.
It also comes with a decent case.
Get a urethane hose to go with this and you might forget you're attached to a compressor.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Great brad nailer !!, September 18, 2007
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
This little brad nailer is sweet. Smooth and reliable (so far), and not too loud. I've used 1.25" and 2" brads with no problems.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Brads not fully driven into wood. Disappointed. Same problem with replacement unit., December 5, 2008
This review is from: Milwaukee 7150-21 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18 Gauge Brad Nailer (Tools & Hardware)
I bought this nailer on the strengths of all the 5 stars awarded by other reviewers. So with great anticipation, I waited for it to arrive. Then I was deeply disappointed when even with pressure set to the maximum 120 PSI and depth adjustment turned all the way for maximum penetration, the heads of the brad remained above the wood. I shot over 50 brads with this consistent problem. This means that the nailer was delivered without being able to perform the job it was designed to do.
I read others have modified the safety by filing it down, but why should I do this irreversibly to a new tool that is reputed to be so perfect? If I did this, wouldn't it make the no-mar pads not fit snugly on the bulbous shaped safety tip? I wonder if there is another way to adjust the safety protrusion without filing it down (depth adjuster doesn't do it). I have requested for a replacement from Amazon to see if this disappointment persists.
Same problem with replacement unit & the successful fix
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The replacement unit has exactly the same problem of not driving the brads to be flush or slightly below the wood surface no matter how I adjusted it. Because I can't wait anymore for yet another replacement, I followed the path of what other reviewers did- file the safety tip down. But by how much?
The fix
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Close examination of the safety protrusion even when fully depressed & with depth adjustment turned all the way for maximum penetration shows that it lifted the brad exit point about 1.5 mm above the wood surface. Therefore the safety must be reduced in length by at least 1.5mm. However, this does not give additional depth penetration leeway since the depth adjustment is already maxed out. So I decided on filing the safety down by 2mm and tapering it to retain its pointed shape for the no-mar pads to be refitted. This done, I test fired brads of all lengths and they come out perfectly just below the MDF test surface with air pressure of at least 85 PSI.
The depth adjustment should be set so that when the safety is fully depressed, it should lift the brad exit point just above the wood surface. This is so that when the gun recoils and land back on the wood after firing, the no-mar pad on the saftey can prevent the metal brad exit from denting the wood. So on hindsight, filing the safety length down by 1.5mm should have been enough instead of 2mm.
Conclusion: If the safety length came properly adjusted, I would have given it 5 stars, but having experienced disappointment twice, time lost waiting for the replacement and still having to alter the tool to make it work, I maintain my one star rating for this otherwise excellent tool.
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