6 safe air nailing

I'm going to show you how to use an air nailer now. It seems like it's not a big deal

But there are a few tricks you need to know One of the things is to just put a few drops of oil

into your Nailer before each use. It doesn't take very much. You don't want

You don't want the oil coming out the exhaust, but a few drops each time will do the trick

Right now here, I'm assembling a little bit of kick bass And I want to show you how to use an air nailer safely, but before we get there

It's always important to test the air pressure and depth setting of your air nailer

So you want to use the same kind of wood? That you're going to be nailing into you don't want to find that the nailer over drives or under drives

When you actually get to what you're working with Both of these pieces happen to be a piece of cherry that I'm using right now

So I've got a scrap piece here, and let's just see how it drives

That's pretty well perfect. I might want it a little bit Deeper if I was going to be filling

But these nail holes will be hidden so I think that's just about right

These are the pieces for the kick bass. This is the Horizontal piece and this is the vertical piece

You can do yourself a very big favor By cutting some scrap material the same width as the vertical piece because that means

That the horizontal piece fits on top you don't have to worry about Keeping it straight up and down. It's it's fully supported

It's it's fully supported and ready to go so This is not a critical joint nothing about this joint is going to be

visible But we still want to be neat about it, so I'll put on a little bit of glue here

cabinet making friend of mine says that You should always put on just the right amount of glue and by that he means enough to cover the joint

Without excess squeeze it so that should be about what we've got here

Now the main safety thing With air nailers is to watch out for an area of danger that you might not suspect

now I'm of course not going to put my finger anywhere near

the muzzle of this thing But there's another danger zone and that's over here, and that's something you might not realize

Nails Air-driven nails are surprisingly flexible if you've ever taken one on its own

They're much easier to bend than a regular Finishing nail which means that if that nail hits an area of hardwood or a knot or some wavy grain it can actually

bend and come out sideways Which is not a nice thing to find by accident, so I'll warn you ahead of time. I just want to get this

aligned here I'm shooting in the middle of This thickness of wood

And my hand and I'm applying some pressure down with the gun my hands are well away

From anything because this is the danger zone on the side here, and I don't want to get caught so I

There we go Just slightly countersunk I'll continue along. I'll do the other end and

Then I'll do the middle because it's not unusual for there to be a slight warp

so I want to get the ends correct, and then I can wrestle the middle into position and

continue with the nailing