My old foreman told me to never trust a new brand of framing nailer without running a box through it first, and he was right when the one I bought jammed solid on the 15th nail.

Has anyone else had a bad first impression with a tool that turned out to be a consistent problem?

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Disagree with that idea a bit. Sometimes you just get a bad one. I bought a circular saw that was awful right away, but my buddy has the same model and his runs perfect. @blair_webb had a clear lemon with a known flaw, but that's different. I feel like a single box of nails or one project isn't always a fair test for the whole brand.

carter.casey19d ago

Yeah, my buddy had that happen with a brand new impact driver. It just felt cheap and stripped a bolt head on its first real job, but his brother swears by the same brand. Makes you wonder about quality control sometimes.

blair_webb19d ago

Oh man, that is SO true. I bought a new brand of cordless drill last year because the price was amazing. The chuck completely gave out before I even finished my first project. It wasn't just a fluke, either. I looked it up online and it was a known issue with that model. Now I always check reviews from other people who actually use tools for work, not just the fancy ads. That old advice is solid gold.