Silverline Brad nailer?

[Monkey Mark]

My general rule of thumb is that if it has moving parts, avoid silverline.
However, you can buy a 50mm Brad nailer/stapler for £23.

Does anyone have any experience with these? So cheap it's hard to resist.

 

[MMUK]

Worth a shot, excuse the pun. All Silverline tools have an excellent guarantee.

 

[Monkey Mark]

I've just read in another topic that the nailer/stapler ones leaves marks. Is this right? If so I'll just get a nailer.

 

[petermillard]

I have the Silverline 16ga air nailer (next step up from a typical 18ga brad nailer) and although it's a bit 'cheap & cheerful' it works fine and I've had no problems with it at all from my occasional usage. For the 20-odd quid it cost it's ridiculously good, though if I was using it daily then I'd prefer to spend a bit more, if only for longevity.

HTH Pete

 

[Roughcut]

Yeah I bought the Silverline 18ga nailer a couple of months ago.
I do usually avoid cheap tools but figured it would only get very limited use anyway and if it were really bad out of the box I would take it back for a refund.
But so far so good, I haven't found it marks the wood and it does fire nails just below the top surface of the wood which cannot be said of a frustrating Tacwise battery nail gun I previously had.

EDIT: Just to make clear I have the 18 ga Silverline Nailer and not the Nailer/Stapler

 

[JakeS]

I've just read in another topic that the nailer/stapler ones leaves marks. Is this right? If so I'll just get a nailer.

I don't know to what degree my experience is relevant, but my electric Tacwise nailer/stapler leaves marks if I push down on it as I fire.

When I first got it my first couple of test shots left the nails a little proud, so then I tried pushing down on the back of the unit as I pulled the trigger; this left marks, and I'd presume any air equivalent may have the same problem, as the pin that pushes the nails out of the front is wide enough to fire staples and needs to push forwards in order to do the actual nailing.

However, after a few more practices on bits of scrap, I'm pretty sure that I just didn't have it held firmly enough against the surface before firing those first couple of times; it will only fire if the nose is depressed, but it can fire when the nose is pushed down a little but not all the way - so I presume that's what happened. The 'missing' nose travel would account for the proud nail, and having ensured that the nose is fully depressed from that point onwards, I get pretty much every nail fired perfectly.

(And I say 'pretty much' because twice while I've owned it, I've got sparks and bits of bent nail jammed in the firing mechanism instead. But no marks! ;-)