For bigger home improvement projects, homeowners often need to invest in nail guns and similar pneumatic tools. They are incredibly efficient and useful for many purposes. They have precise capabilities and intense power directed to very small areas, such as nail heads. With well-designed nail guns, we won’t need to use hammer and this will save us from painful backs, hands and arms. Unfortunately, with its high-velocity firing, pneumatic tools can be quite dangerous if used improperly. In this case, nail guns and others should be handled by adults who strictly follow all safety procedures.
They need to use common sense and caution while adhering to a variety of rules. These guidelines should be placed in the forefront of our mind. After purchasing pneumatic tools, homeowners shouldn’t use them immediately, if they are inexperienced. It is a good idea to spend a few days to learn its manual and the design of the pneumatic tools. They should familiarize themselves with the tools and simulate proper positions and body posture. Good pneumatic tools should have very helpful manuals that allow us to understand all the ins and outs.
Nail guns have different settings. As an example nail can be fired for each trigger depression, while another setting allow us to enable the sequential firing feature. Again, if we are not yet experienced with the tool, it is important to fire one nail per trigger depression only. Before using the tool for the first time, we should inspect it to make sure that the safety is working and fasteners with proper sizes are loaded. If we have used tools, we should make sure that there are no weak spots and punctures. The hose should be secured properly with the compressor and tool. The compressor itself should work properly with ideal air pressure capacity.
Despite our strength, wit, speed, skill and experience, it is important to wear safety gear. It should be noted that our flesh and fingers won’t be able to stop the sharpened steel projectiles that rocket out the gun. While we are certainly sensible enough not to point the gun to any part of our body, ricocheted nails could still injure us if we accidently fire them on concrete or other hard surfaces.
After using the tool, we should know when to disengage it. In general, pneumatic tools are dangerous and they should be disabled each time it is unattended. There should be a power button that can quickly disable the gun. It is also a good idea to choose a model with trigger lock and this is a useful extra safety feature, because the power button can be pressed accidentally. It should be noted that pneumatic tools are pressurized during use and the power button should de-pressurize the gun automatically.
Even if the gun is already disengaged, depressurized and locked, we should avoid pointing it to anyone, because if we make this act an habit, it is possible that we will accidentally point an active gun to others.
