00:00well they're home renovators and here's another project that you may have be looking for or
00:17you're thinking of planning and you need a tool to put down your engineered hardwood
00:22there's a lot of it out there right now this one particular piece of equipment is
00:29for nailing down the engineered hardwood and some of them need to be nailed down and some of them
00:36don't but the thing you want to do is if you want to get a nail in just like I've put position this
00:42one here just to put it on a larger piece of wood that's where you want your hardwood flooring nail
00:46to go in right into that groove right on top of that groove there and it'll be sunk in and level
00:52in as far in as it can go it'll be flush so you can put your next board together so this tool puts
01:00in those nails these particular nails are what we call a T nail only because or sorry an L nail there
01:07are T nails as well it's a different shape on top obviously it's just like a little T two dogs one
01:13going the other way these ones are pretty common they're an L nail and you got to remember that if
01:19you've picked up nails somewhere you must match the nails to the nailer some of them will do both some
01:27won't and so you want to make sure you get the right nails and the right length for the piece of
01:32wood that you're doing now this particular nailer is a primatec it's very very common they've been in
01:39the hardwood flooring nailing for a long time you'll take your strip of nails out you'll slide it into the
01:46back you'll pull back your your tension here on your on your flat spring and put it behind the
01:54nails now then these are ready to go you'll need a small compressor if you can even use the small
02:02donut compressors you don't need a large one maybe the double tank ones but you've you're gonna set
02:09your regulator between 80 and 100 psi you don't want to use too much air you don't want to have it at
02:15120 or 30 you can blow o-rings off in here sometimes you'll be nailing away and all of a sudden the
02:21piston won't come back up and that's usually a reason that the o-rings been blown off for the
02:26cylinder and then you don't have you can't get your your piston back up to behind the next nail to nail
02:33so and that's from having this on too much pressure now on the new air nailers not like the old
02:39a manual ones where you've really got a you got a weighted hammer and the reason they were made
02:46weighted like this was because you really had to get up and bash the plunger down to get the nail
02:51into the hardwood on the new air nailers with air assist it's basically almost a tap and you can it'll
02:58ignite the piston to drive the nail in so you don't you're not going to be in there just bashing this
03:04real hard just enough to activate the piston and it'll drive the nail in with the air assist now
03:10before you even get to that the engineered hardwood nailers the wood in a lot of them is different you
03:20can go anywhere from 3 8 of an inch up to half your regular hardwood is 3 quarter inch there's a lot of
03:27it is 9 16 5 8 so say with that saying if you use the setting on your nailer and you didn't adjust it
03:36you could end up with your nail on top and right into the tongue but you want it in where it was
03:41here right in that right in that groove and to get that position you adjust these shoes one can be
03:50adjusted up and down and the other one can be adjusted up and down as well to get how you would
03:58set that nail so that it'll fit right into that groove now normally I would suggest if you haven't
04:05done this before is to bring a piece of your wood in when you come to rent this piece of equipment
04:10because the the rental store is certainly here at the at Larry's they know and they can adjust it for
04:16you and have it in the right position and so that you're going to be hitting then putting that nail
04:21in the right spot and you don't have aren't going to be trying to adjust your nailer all over to get
04:26that spot so once it's adjusted you're all set to go and that's the main thing you got to remember
04:32because some people have just tried to pick it up and set it themselves done it wrong and thereby
04:37you start destroying some of your wood so good idea bring a piece of your wood in if you're going to
04:42get one of these nailers and have it set up for you okay so there's something to look forward to and
04:49you're putting in your engineered hardwood and don't forget to subscribe
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