I did know this thanks to that other famous Australian Steve Irwin.
You will have fun with that gun and it will certainly speed up your builds. Just don’t have your fingers anywhere near where the pin is going and do where eye protection.
It is crazy how this hobby can take over your life but it is fun.
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You guys know there is a Crocodile Dundee THREE right?, local movie channel recently hade all three on a Dundee-o-thon. 
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No I didn’t know that. But I do now
Did you know there might be a good reason no one knows about Dundee 3?
Warning! Danger! Will Robinson! Look at the Rotten Tomatoes score….
I just inform, I dont judge 
May I say… “How Did I Ever Build Anything before I got this”??!!
It’s fairly quiet, too.
The only downside was that I purchased an assortment pin pack and this nailer won’t do 8 & 10mm pins.
30 minutes of futzing around rather than 5 hours!
Tomorrow the other side!
Nice! I have a Grex air powered pin nailer. I love it, but air is a pain to deal with. I have a 3 gallon air tank that I fill with my compressor so I don’t need to drag it into the hobby room and deal with the noise.
I’m a fan of Ryobi 18V tools. I have lots of them. I might consider selling the Grex and getting a Ryobi. How does the weight feel in your hand? Does the size hamper positioning it where you want? The Grex is very light and small.
I just noticed the label says it doesn’t shoot smaller than 1/2" (12mm) which is a little bit of a limitation as you noted.
Even thou it says 12mm, my Grex says the same, but I run 3/8 ( 8mm ) thru it…
I just can’t put a full strip in it all at once, I break it in two…
Also… Stay away from the cheapest pins… Buy the name brands… there is a difference… Less jams, better straight drives…
Saving a couple of dollars on 5000 pins only to have them jam, and drive crooked, or come out the side, while your trying to be careful isn’t worth the frustration. ( Stateside: Harbor Freight’s Pins are GARBAGE!!!)
Jon,
This being my first pin nailer, I can say that it was not as noisy as I thought it would be and I had no trouble moving it around the engine shed. It’s not too heavy, and it has a double trigger to prevent misfires and the safety trigger turns on a led light.
I think my only significant disappointment was finding out after the purchase, that would not be able to fire my recently purchased 8 & 10 mm pins. So I have pins sticking through the other side of my roof’s beams. I suspect I can clip the pins off or pull them through once the glue is dried.
Ironically small corded pancake compressors are not sold in Oz. However , as I passed through Bunnings (= your Home Depot) I came across a dewalt pancake compressor and thought that I could have gone pneumatic. However it provided the worst of two worlds, the inconveniences of a pneumatic hose and a limited battery power supply.
I have 4 different brands of battery operated tools (not that I wanted it to end up that way). Dewalt 10.8 volt, Milwaukee 12 volt, Ego 56 volt and now RYOBI 18 volt.
Jon, I don’t know how inconvenient it is to have a trailing pneumatic hose, but if someone made a corded lighter pin nailer, I would have had considered having a look. I only mention this as I’ve found I need 2-3 batteries on charge for other projects around the house and sometimes the corded versions are more versatile or robust. I certainly would have preferred to not be running 4 different proprietary battery systems.
So it’s not the height the nail gun has with the shorter pins it’s the length of the strip?
In my Grex, the 3/8 pins, at full length, will buckle in the trough and not feed well. So I break the strip in two, no problems, Give it a try.
The drive pin is it at the top of the stroke and up high enough for the longest pin, it will strike down to the top of what ever size is loaded. Just make sure you have the beveled ( pointed ) end down. Goofy things happen when pointed side is up…Don’t ask!
Cool!
Thanks. I did think there was a sharper edge when I loaded my first round.
The shortest pin I shoot in a Grex is 3/8" which is about 9mm.
I use a lightweight coiled hose on my portable tank. Doesn’t get in the way at all.
I hear ya on the multiple battery brands. Fortunately, all of my stuff is Ryobi 18V. You can buy battery adapters that allow interchange of brands, but adds some height to the battery. I now have more batteries than I can use in a day due to buying multiple tools that came with a battery and somewhere around 5 chargers. In April when I retire, the boss is buying two of my 4 drills with batteries 'cause I have no use for more than two.
Re pointy side: The pins I have are printed with an arrow every 10mm or so, I draw a line with a sharpie all along the pointed side so small sections without arrows are easily oriented.
What a great idea, first though was D’oh that’s is such a simple but obvious idea
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Didn’t have a lot of time today, but hey how did I ever build without a pin nailer?! Here’s the other side.
I haven’t tried the shorter pins yet, but I’ll post the underside chaos tomorrow after I trim the eaves.
Thats is coming out seriously sweet. But I do have a question does that little white car have a roo bar on the front. . .
While i say that in jest, I’d say people in the Australian outback must be smarter than people in N. Idaho (not hard to do) but we just keep destroying our cars hitting deer but we won’t put ugly “deer” bars on our cars.
Not smarter Devon, just expensive crash repairs.
Herself and I had a bad habit of driving home after dusk and over 12 years we hit 32+ big reds and 1 emu without damaging the cruiser. However we did hit one at 110kph and it shifted the roo bar. I also had a wedge tail eagle bounce off the bar and push the windscreen 5cm into the car.
I feel like you’re getting a crocodile Dundee response because Devon, that’s what we call a nudge bar. It basically it is there to allow the car owner to drive off with an intact radiator. You’ll still be seeing the crash repair folks.
This is a Roo Bar
An easy way to see where the outback ends is to just tell someone you hit a roo…
City folk ”How’s the Roo?”
Country folk “How’s the car?”
ARB SITE we had an ARB BAR.
When we lived in Broken Hill, participants from around the world would come for the ARB CHALLENGE. This is some of the stuff from the challenge
TAKE THIS ROUTE
CLIMB A CLIFF
GET OVER THIS ROCK
GET OVER A POTHOLE
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Here I was kidding and you really do have a roo bar on the car. . .lol. 32 roos in 12 years. . .you must never buy meat.
On a funny side note. In Idaho the law used to be that road kill belonged to the state. They either fed it to prisoners or gave it to zoos. Then someone got involved and said you can’t feed it to prisoners because it’s not “inspected”. And zoos fought with a wolf-dog breeder over it. So they stopped giving it to anyone. Now a few years ago they simply said road kill was free for the taking. True story. My daughter was traveling a “dark lonely highway” and came upon a wreck. A guy hit a moose. Totaled the truck and the moose. As she was driving around it the cop was asking drivers if they wanted it. Daughter calls me at like midnight and asks me if I want a moose. I still hate myself for saying no. .
Not long after the new law (or lack there of) took affect I was driving to work at 5:30 am on the freeway and a guy in a truck and a highway patrolman were skinning and elk. Only in Idaho!!