I inherited a Bosch T31 bradder and stapler. Couldn't get any help at Home Depot chosinga nails. Bought Porter Cable 16 Ga. 1" finish nails (PFN16100-1). Released arm and slid the nail carrier back about 6 inches but couldn't load the nails at either end of the gun. Any Ideas?

Have you lubricated either nail gun? If not, go to Home Depot and get a bottle of air tool oil. It's in tools by the compressors. Disconnect the air hose from the tool. Pour about a teaspoon of oil into the air inlet of the tool. Reconnect everything and try it 10-20 times with no nails in the tool. Then try it with nails. Good luck.

oil it all the time

Assuming that the nail head not setting in and adjusting depth control does not remedy. Usually occurs when the tip breaks off. Remove the head and pull out the driver to examine tip. If tip broken or bent, replace with new or try to adjust as needed. If about 1/16 of tip broken, reshape the driver so that the tip is just slightly wider than nail head, taper the lower 1/4 inch on the side of the driver that faces the nails so that the driver will only strike one nail and reduce (shave) the size of the lower bumper so that the driver will extend out same amount that you need due to broken tip(only works if 1/16 -1/8 broke off).

The driver blade breaks very easily on 18 and 22 ga nailers. I would suspect that the tip broke off. Easy to check. Remove the nails, connect airline and press the gun against rubber hose while holding the trigger. The gun will fire and driver will stay in the down position allowing you to check the tip. The tip should extend past the nose about 1/8 inch. When you release the trigger or pick up the gun, the driver will retract. Order parts as needed from www.toolpartsdirect.com

Eighter one of these will work good for nail guns personaly i have the porter cable and i like it i do a lot of construction work. And i think the porter cable comes a finish nail gun for small nails and staples mind did. But there not for running tools that require a large volume of air like air sanders air rachats or air cutters.

Hello,

You need to open the nail magazine and you just load one strip of nails at a time, then close the magazine. It will have a spring putting pressure on the nails, so it will have resistance on it and it will increase as you close it.

The oil gets dripped in the air hose connection on the gun before you connect the air. Make sure that this gun actually takes oil, some newer guns are oilless.

Hope this helps,Matt

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make sure that the slide is putting pressure on the nail oil the slide

Here's a link for PDF file download of your manual.

http://www.dewaltservicenet.com/documents/English/Instruction%20Manual/Porter-Cable/N027636,DA250C.pdf

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