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• If you need full round heads on your nails, you can use a nailer that works with these spaced-out strips. Of course they can’t hold as many nails per strip.

• A small, lightweight pneumatic stapler is great for making lattice panels out of furring strips, making picture frames, and so on. Staples hold thin material better than nails.

• Finish nailers use slightly larger finish nails.

• Electric staplers typically have a simple solenoid (coil of wire) that pulls an iron slug in rapidly when current is switched on, creating a magnetic field.

• Full-size pneumatic (compressed-air-powered) framing nailers are the workhorses of wood home construction. They run all day driven by a portable air compressor on the ground.

• Brad nailers handle short nails for trim and cabinet work.

• More powerful electric nail guns and staplers use an electric motor to compress a spring, like the handle on a squeeze-type manual stapler. This allows more force to be delivered more quickly than with a solenoid. This one actually compresses air into a cylinder, so when it’s firing, it can hit just as hard as a pneumatic nailer.

• Electric Stapler

• Nail guns use “sticks” of several dozen nails lightly glued to each other. They usually have “half heads” so they can fit tightly to each other.

• Finish nails (used for trim and cabinetmaking) have very small heads, so they work well in stick form.

• These narrow (1/4”, 6mm) staples are used a lot in cheap furniture construction.

• Wider staples, which look almost like office stapler staples except thicker, are best for fastening paper, fabric, or other thin materials.

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