A brad nailer looks and works like a pneumatic nailer, however dissimilar to each other nailer available today, it doesn't really shoot nails. A brad "nailer" shoots brads. For those new to what brads are, they are basically a slight nail. Your normal brad nail has a check of 18 and is commonly just 0.0475 crawls in cross-segment. As should be obvious, that is very little for a nail.
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