Pro Tool Reviews: Those who do a lot of woodwork know how important it is to have a reliable angled finish nailer in their arsenals. Whether you’re building cabinets or installing trim and molding, you’re dealing with tight spaces and corners. That said, if you’re in the market for a new one, the Ridgid 18V 15-Gauge Angled Finish Nailer (R09899) may have what you’re looking for.
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Something that has always been bad about battery powered staplers and nailers is just how much they end up weighing, but it seems like Rigid may have solved this problem. With an overall weight of 7.1 pounds, that makes it much lighter than other manufacturers like Milwaukee, and I'd be very interested to test out one of these. The article talk about how it sunk 2-1/2" nails through various materials, which is very cool. It also has a bump fire mode which is something I don't think I've noticed before on other battery powered nailers. Granted, it's obviously not as fast as a pneumatic bump fire would be, but the article says that it had a .5 second reload before the next shot which is not bad at all. Rigid makes good quality tools, so this tool could be very good for someone who has a garage shop and doesn't want to break out the compressor every time they need to use a nailer.
This tool looks really nice and well-designed. It would be really cool to have one of these in our shop, but unfortunately I don’t think we would use it enough to warrant buying one. The best part about having one of these (or at least a similar gun), in my opinion, would be that it’s not pneumatic. All our pneumatic tools are great, but it’s really gets to be a pain dragging around an air hose. I think that, at least here, it’s most prominent during an install. Getting an air hose to a stapler to the middle of the deck gets in everyone’s way, and crawling around under a platform with an air ratchet becomes a nightmare with the air hose getting stuck all the time. If we were to switch from pneumatic to electric, I don’t think the finish nailers would be the first to be replaced. It would be really nice to replace the narrow crown staplers, but it would be cool to have this tool nonetheless.
I like the angle design of the nailer to get into corners and odd spaces. I’m surprised it’s only like seven pounds seeing it needs a battery with 700 nails per charge. I don’t think in our shop we would utilize the three nails per second because I can’t think of any detailed work that our skill levels would be able to use that rapidly well. It’s nice it has a work light. I find those useful especially on last minute load-in additions when it’s not as bright as the scene shop. I mean in our scene shop specifically we’d probably never own this because it would take Rigid battery packs and we don’t really have those…at all. It’s nice to see Rigid move into battery powered tools though as their pneumatic ones aren’t conducive to home use unless you have a home workshop since they’re easily accessible and in an affordable price range that still has decent quality.
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