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a tool that fires nails faster than your hand could ever flinch.
means A nailer is a power tool — pneumatic, electric, or gas-powered — that drives nails into material with a single trigger pull; the word also covers anyone whose job is to fasten things with nails.
from Straight from "nail," which comes from Old English "nægel," the word for both the metal spike and the keratin at your fingertips — the same dual sense survives in German "Nagel." Add the agent suffix "-er," the same one that turns "bake" into "baker," and you get "nailer," originally the person who hammered, later handed off to the machine that hammers for them.
- firing speed
- Some shoot two to three nails per second.
- power source
- Driven by compressed air, gas, or battery flywheels.
- safety design
- Most require contact tip pressed before firing.
- history
- Pneumatic nailers debuted around 1950 for floor work.
- recoil
- Each shot kicks back like a tiny punch.
dewalt dcd777c2 — best-selling cordless nailer kit with over 2 million units sold worldwide
pneumatic brad nailer — stanley bostitch model 23 gauge, standard tool in professional carpentry since 1994
paslode im250a — top-selling fuel-powered framing nailer used in residential construction across north america