I’ve been using a brad nailer for a number of years now to fasten casing to jambs. I recently purchased one of those grex pin nailers. Anyone have experience using those in the same application? I’m concerned about holding capacity.
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Have the grex pinner and no way would I use it for casing. It holds very well in hardwoods but windows and doors have other forces against them from open/close and seasonal changes (windows). The casing to jam needs something larger than a 23 guage fastner..
Kind of what I figured after after shooting a few into some wood.
What exactly do you use the grex for?
That's what I thought. I can't imagine gluing casing though.
I use 15ga, maybe 16ga is OK. I was thinking construction adhesive as the glue, probably would not be a big deal, but it would be unusual.
I think I'll buy a brad nailer, (16 gauge I believe), seems to work fine. I'm wondering why I spent $300+ on this pin nailer, per the recommendation of my tool dealer.
Construction adhesive would be a mess I think.
Yeah, I'm thinking that's about all the use there is for the pin nailer. I just bought myself another brad nailer to replace the one that I'd been using for years that went out. I've found that fastening casing to jambs can be problematic with at 15 gauge nailer. Too close to the edge of the casing. Brad nailers work fine for me in that application.