Freeman Pneumatic 15° 2-1/2" Coil Siding Nailer | PCN65

Great siding gun for the price. In the past, i did a lot of siding, worked for a few companies, usually always using the higher end guns (Makita, $400-$500). But always had problems with the higher end ones, given, they were worked a lot harder & older, but would double fire, or nail would get stuck, which seemed to always happen when it was 102 degrees out and on a 30' ladder. Anyway, I just do projects here and there now, so didn't need a real high dollar gun, so ordered this with a box of the Freeman 2 inch coil nails. Have only had a chance to do one job, but it worked flawlessly, not a single problem, it almost seemed strange to do an entire job without having some sort of problem with the nail gun, but this one just flat out worked. We'll see how it's doin in a year, and after a lil more abuse, but for the money, seems to be a good gun. ***UPDATE 09/27/17**** Have put a little under a case of nails through this gun, oiled before every use, and now it's leaking air terribly, all my research leads me to that there is an O-ring (or O-rings) going bad. So now I have to Order a $35 kit, and hopefully I can get this gun taken apart and O-rings replaced, and hopefully that fixes the problem. Concerning that I haven't even been through a case/box of nails and this gun is out of service. Hoping I don't end up kicking myself for not buying a higher quality gun. ***UPDATE 02/10/18*** Ordered the O-ring kit, and started taking apart the gun, there was a large square ring on the back of the gun that had come loose and not seated properly. I lubed and adjusted it in back into position, and just like that, the gun started working again. I have to admit, i wasn't oiling it before every use. Since then, I bought some Marvel Mystery Oil for air tools, and have been using it religiously, and haven't had a single problem since. Just ordered another case of nails, Hitachi this time, as the Freeman seem to leave a lot of wire with the nails on the siding. Overall, i'm happy with the Siding Gun. Update 01/31/2019 One last update. These guns are way underrated. I am still using the same gun I bought a few years ago. I have a PT Siding company, and I use probably 5-7 cases of nails a year(think there's roughly 2400 nails per case). My original gun is still firing away, and I have since bought another for a back-up for when/if my original craps out. So my honest opinion is this gun is a great buy, it takes a beating day in and day out for about 6-8 months out of the year, and i'm not easy on it. I highly recommend this gun for siding.

This nail gun works very well, no jams and only a few double fires( they were my fault for either holding the trigger too long or not enough pressure against the siding were the gun bounced off the wall and hit again while holding the trigger down). I have run through about 1000 nails so far and I found the best way to use it for me is to hold the trigger and bump the end where I want to install a nail, I don't try for speed as you see the professional framers using rapid fire. I set the depth adjustment and have used air pressure from 70psi to 100 psi on a rigid brand pancake compressor with very consistent results. I originally bought a cheap nail gun on here at about half the price but it misfired, jammed and was not consistent on the depth adjustment , I was half way through my Hardi board siding job and made the switch to this nail gun, I didn't expect too much from the reviews but it has worked perfect once you get a feel for the trigger or the bump method. The ladder hook is also great to have.

So, I own at least 10 nail guns - from trim to roofing nailers. I was in need of a new coil siding nailer after losing my Hitachi. Yet, I was hesitant to spend $350 again for a job I don't do often. So I come across this at 60% of the price. My first impression of this gun was mixed. It had better features than the Hitachi and Dewalt I have used such as bump fire, rafter hooks, adjustable exhaust, and single or automatic firing. That is, most of the professional brands don't include these or have an awkward handicap that prevents you from using them - like a fixed hook, trigger installations, and locked exhaust. However, it is apparent that this gun isn't made for continuous daily use when you look at the trigger, coil gaurd, and depth adjustment. The trigger is probably the weakest and cheapest one I have ever used. The coil guard won't survive a hard fall. The depth adjustable is hard to use. It also isn't as balanced as most other nailers and is significantly larger in size. As to how well it performs, well I am more than satisfied. It shoots nails just as well as the Makita, Hitachi, and Dewalt siding nailers I have used. From fiber cement to hardwood. The results are great - most of the time. The biggest issue is that this gun is a lot more prone to double firing than most. Double firing is a significant issue. It can crack your fiber cement or split your hard wood. This gun is very prone to double fire when you are using smaller compressors. To better explain, you shouldn't be using pancake compressors or compact low cfm (>5cfm@90) anyway. Coil and roofing jailers use significantly more air due to the nature of their work as siding and shingles use a lot more nails per area. Yet, most people and professionals don't care. So this if for you pancake users out there - don't buy this gun or you will have trouble. This gun will double fire when you are are driving a lot of nails and your compressor does not have enough air to keep up with the demand. Weird huh? Most guns don't fire or they dry fire when the pressure is too low or their isn't enough air (volume) to meet the demand. I discovered this after trying it out on all 5 of my compressors - pancakes, engine driven 6 gallon, 25 gallon, and 60 gallon. No surprise, it double fired often on my pancakes and engine driven but never once double fired on the 25 or 60 gallon. From there on out, I have only used in on my 25 gallon and rarely double fired. As far as the jamming, all coil nailers do it. It is just the nature of this mechanism. Wire fasteners bind and adhesive builds up. This gun jammed just as often as all the others I have used. Overall, I would recommend this gun to most consumers and those professionals who do siding on the small scale like repairs or touch ups.

I had struggled for many years hammering stainless steel finish nails when making repairs to my fir deck. This time, due to replacement of almost 20% of the surface of my 450 sf. deck, I decided to invest in a nail gun and after significant research I ended up selecting this one. Although I had no previous experience with a pneumatic gun, I was able to operate the tool correctly after only a few tries. I'm happy with the repeat performance that sets >95% of the nails seated just right. I found the tool to be a little on the heavy side for my liking, but again I don't have another to compare it to. Overall I feel this tool is at a sweet spot of price, performance and features and I would recommend it to others.

I was really hopeful that this Freeman Siding Nailer was going to be exactly what I needed. I am not a professional contractor and cannot justify spending $250 - $350+ on the next cheapest siding nailers. I bought this nail gun at a very reasonable price and was hoping it was like a cheap framing nailer. I was hoping it would work fine for DIY use around the house it would last me forever, but if you used it on a construction site, it probably would not hold up. Wrong. I used this nail gun to drive in some replacement siding in a 5 ft wide by 6ft tall area and I had so many issues in this small area, I returned the nail gun. For a quick summary, at the SAME regulated air pressure, this nail gun: - drove nails in short so they were sticking out of the siding half an inch - drove nails all the way through the siding - drove nails perfectly into the siding like it is supposed to - the trigger got stuck in the up position so I couldn't fire another nail - the nail gun double fired two nails at least 5 times on me - one time the nail gun fired two nails simultaneously so they jammed into the nose of the nail gun and this nail gun got stuck to my house. I had to damage the siding, pry the nail gun off the house, cut the nails off with a wire cutter, and then use a punch to hammer the nails out Maybe you will have better luck, but by the looks of the other reviews, I would not buy this gun. I REALLY wanted this nail gun to work, but it just wouldn't.

works perfectly

Had to purchase on the fly due to my 15 year old duofast breaking and no part available. Performs good, trigger safety is wonky, had to modify due to poor design. Put rubber spacer in trigger due to not fully engaging when pressing against siding.

I read the directions. The instructions call for the gun to be oiled before use, but the instructions are extremely confusing about which type of lubricant to use, saying seemingly contradictory things, something like "use pneumatic tool lubricant" and "don't use air tool oil". These sound like the same thing. How am I supposed to purchase lubricant for this thing if I don't know what type to get? So I looked up online what type of oil is recommended for pneumatic nail guns, and the most common, most consistent, generic recommendations seemed to be 3-in-1 oil and mineral oil. I happened to have some food-grade mineral oil so I used a couple drops of that, only to later discover that the box had a small bottle of lube hidden away. Was use of mineral oil the cause for what I was about to experience? I don't know... I loaded the gun with 1.75" stainless nails, set air pressure, connected the air line, and pulled the trigger in preparation for driving a test nail. WTF WAS THAT?! It fired a nail! The instructions said I had to press the gun against the work piece before it would fire. Maybe I have gun adjusted incorrectly? Let's try increasing the drive depth... test... premature ejection again! Okay, reduce drive depth... test, and again! Okay, reduce air pressure... test... again! Reduce air pressure below 90 psi... test... not firing at all now. So I figured the instructions were wrong. I set pressure to where the gun was firing nails again, place the gun against the test piece, pulled the trigger, and the nail goes deeper than I want. Fiddle with depth setting on the gun, nails go deeper than desired right up to the point where the gun won't fire. Hmmm..... I guess cedar fencing and pine 2x4s with 1.75" nails is too light, but this isn't a catastrophic issue, so we'll just go with it. Used the gun for a couple hours. I'd put the gun up against the boards, pull the trigger and, most times, the gun would fire one nail. It was double-firing the vast majority of the time, but usually didn't pick up a nail on the 2nd blast, so fine. But a fair number of times it did drive two nails. I tried various ways of holding and triggering the gun, and the best I could do for a while was to position the gun a little above the board, move the gun toward the board, pull the trigger just before contact was made, allow a bounce. Went half a day like this, and the double fires seemed to be going down. Also noted that, eventually, the gun stopped the fear-inducing trait of firing nails on trigger pull without contact. Once that point was reached, things went much more smoothly, and the gun operated as described in the manual. I'm not a pro. This was my first time using a siding nail gun. Even with the gun working properly I'd still get a double-nail every twenty shots or so. One of my teenage relatives had much better success than I did, so this is probably a skill and body type thing. But, even with all the double-taps, the gun never once jammed on me. I drove about 1200 1.75" SS ringed nails putting up a fence. Worked well enough for the money for this crude job. Want absolutely-consistent shot-to-shot driving depth? Get a different tool, or practice. Want real adjustability? Get a different tool. No experience with nail guns and want minimal hassle? Get a tool that requires the trigger be squeezed and reset for each shot. Want a cheap tool for a small, one-off project? This just might be the tool for you. I don't have much use for this tool now my project is complete, so I'll probably sell it for half what I paid, and still come out ahead versus renting a tool for a few days from the orange depot.

Worked fine for at home. Had a few double hits because I'm using a Pancake compressor. Otherwise, for occasional use, you can't beat the price point.

cubrio mis espectativas, buen producto, buenos materiales, excelente potencia al clavar, lo recomiendo al 100, facil de utilizar, me gusto, gracias, ademas de manejar promociones que es la mejor manera de vender y comprar, por la razon de ofrecer buen producto y a buen precio.

I am very impressed with this gun . No issues

El precio me Agradó pero NO clava a fondo la Mayoría de los clavos ni que no traiga la función de disparar un clavo a la vez

The nailer feels flimsy and delicate but did it's job OK. It misfired every 20-30 nails, sometimes requiring to open and set the nails again. It was not perfect, but for the price could be tolerated. After driving about 450 1.25 inch nails into cedar shingles, a gush of air came out from the front where the nails come out and the piston pushing the nails remained stuck in the out position as shown in the picture. It could no longer be used. I returned it for a refund and purchased a Bostitch instead.