Nail gun feed problems with griprite nails

[Innovate1]

picked up a hitachi 30 degree framing nailer for some framing and sheeting work on my own garage. Got some 8d griprite nails. About every other shot is a blank fire. Just found some reports of similar but some guns seem to feed them fine. Off to see what others I can find locally. suspect it's the nails not the gun but not sure. What are others experience with this? Are any name brand nail going to be better or are Hitachi nails going to give the best results?

 

[relicrecoveryspecialist]

picked up a hitachi 30 degree framing nailer for some framing and sheeting work on my own garage. Got some 8d griprite nails. About every other shot is a blank fire. Just found some reports of similar but some guns seem to feed them fine. Off to see what others I can find locally. suspect it's the nails not the gun but not sure. What are others experience with this? Are any name brand nail going to be better or are Hitachi nails going to give the best results?

I generally went with what the brand was of the gun. They oddly enough worked the best for the gun(go figure), almost like they meant to make more revenue that way knowing that folks wouldn’t worry too much about skipping a nail. I’ve had them before do it, I had a Senco that was just as picky, but with some minor tweaking to air pressure I got it to shoot out every nail, that one was just my moulding gun


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[Innovate1]

Picked up Hitachi nails and it still misfired about half the time. Any chance it might get better? Might keep it a bit and see how it goes.

 

[relicrecoveryspecialist]

Picked up Hitachi nails and it still misfired about half the time. Any chance it might get better? Might keep it a bit and see how it goes.

Did you oil the gun? I know a lot of times if they nailer is dry it will do it worse


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[bob15]

Oil the gun.

 

[relicrecoveryspecialist]

Oil the gun.

My thoughts exactly, that why I just posted the same thing. I remember my guns especially some of the newer ones If you even tried to run one without oil you could see when they came out of the gun the paper was dry and so were the nails


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[patchap]

Oil the feeder, not just down the fitting

If it still doesn't feed properly something is wrong with it. Even cheap framing nailers work fine for a decent period of time. I use one probably 20 or 30 times a year and a Campbell hausfeld lasted 5 years for me

 

[Innovate1]

It is oiled but I didn't apply any to the feeder - will do that. Seems to be working better after a few nails went through it.