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📄 Description A Manual Nailer for Hardwood is a durable tool designed to install hardwood flooring without the need for compressed air or electricity. Using a mallet to drive nails or staples at the proper angle, it ensures tight seams and long-lasting results—perfect for DIY projects or professional flooring jobs where portability and simplicity are key. In this video, we’ll show you how to set up and operate a manual hardwood nailer, how to position boards for tight seams, and best practices for driving fasteners securely without damaging your flooring. 💡 Pro Tip Always use a flooring mallet with a protective face to avoid damaging the nailer. Keep the tool flat and steady against the board for consistent fastening. Tap boards tightly together before nailing to eliminate gaps. ⚠️ Safety Reminder Wear safety glasses, gloves, and knee protection when working on floors. Keep your striking hand clear of the nailing zone. Use only manufacturer-approved cleats or staples for your tool to ensure proper fastening strength. 👍 Like, comment, and subscribe for more flooring tutorials, woodworking tool guides, and pro installation tips! 🔖 Hashtags #ManualNailer, #HardwoodFlooring, #FlooringTools, #Woodworking, #FloorInstallation, #DIYFlooring, #Carpentry, #HomeImprovement

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00:00Hello there and here's a piece of equipment to put down your hardwood floor that you want to do

00:15yourself. A great do-it-yourself job. These are kind of the original before the air nailers and

00:21everything. This is a manual hardwood floor nailer. The advantage is that you don't need

00:28a compressor to put your nails in. Maybe you're going up to the cottage or whatever. You don't

00:32have a compressor. Maybe you don't want to haul one up. You don't have room to take one up with

00:37other things you're taking. And you want to put in some hardwood in maybe a smaller area. It's not

00:43air-assisted or anything. The nails are exactly the same as what you would use in any air hardwood

00:49floor nailer. This is a particular L nail. The nailer is set for three-quarter inch hardwood,

00:56which is one of the more common ones. And this is an L nail. Now these nails are all barbed so that

01:03when they go in they stay in. And some of the unique things even about some nails is that they

01:08they're flat on the bottom so they go down and they push the wood forward as they go into the

01:14woods so they grab the wood good so that you can get as little creaking as you can have possibly with

01:22the job. Now your nail is, this is going to be set to drive your nail in right in there like that.

01:29And drive it right into that groove on top of the tongue. And the nailer will sit just like this.

01:37You put your your palm back towards the back of the nailer so that you have the shoe nice and flat.

01:44There's no adjustment or anything required. This shoe on the bottom is already adjusted to make the nail

01:52go into that right spot for three-quarter inch wood. And on these you have to change the shoe to

01:58do different different thicknesses of wood to get the nail in the right spot. But this is the reason

02:04why these nail hammers usually came out with a big weight on them as you there's this one here. You'll use

02:10the rubber to bang your wood together and get it tight and then you're going to take and bang that

02:16end of that plunger and it'll go all the way down and then back up to drive your nail in. So how much

02:23force you need to drive that usually is dependent on the type of wood you're doing. Obviously some of the

02:28softer hardwoods are going to be a little easier to put in than say a hard walnut or a beech or even some

02:35of these bamboo woods that you see around which is probably one of the hardest I've seen to drive

02:41nails through. But you're going to hold this very firm you'll be standing up and then give it a good

02:49hard bang to drive it in move over and drive in your next one. So everything's done manually on this one

02:55here but it doesn't present needing any other equipment but again it's going to need a good right

03:03or left arm to to drive those nails in. And maybe this will give you an opportunity to do one of

03:11these little jobs that maybe you couldn't didn't think you could do because you didn't have a

03:15compressor or some of the other equipment. And hopefully this will help you out and don't forget to

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