HFS509040SP 4-in-1 Pneumatic 18 Gauge Flooring Stapler/Nailer

I bought this item after completing my hardwood flooring in a small bedroom before tackling the rest of the rooms. I bought the big ‘hit with a hammer’ nailer. That thing only works three rows from the edges with 5” hardwood. So the edges were a nightmare with screws that kept stripping out or using a brad nailer which made holes to fill with some cracking too.I bought this wonderful tool in hopes of minimizing difficult edge work. It was setup already for my hardwood height of 3/4”. I added 3 drops of oil as directed then practiced on a sample board to get the regulator pressure dialed in at 95 pounds which is in the specs for use. I just finished the hall and the glorious tool work flawlessly every staple without any going too deep or too shallow. Also no cracking or broken tongues (which my big hammer nailer cracks a breaks them or goes into shallow if you don’t hit it perfectly with the hammer.). Anyway I think I am going to just use this great tool for the middle of the rooms too because it is so easy to use.I highly recommend this tool.

Put down two floors with this and not one misfire. Also used it for some trim work, again worked great. I also have a Makita crown nailer, it misfires. And a Paslode with works great but cost a lot. Recommend this nailer with foot attachment.

I used the stapler to install 150sq ft of 3/8" bamboo flooring and it did a good job with no misfires or jams. The shoe is a little touchy to adjust for the thickness of the flooring but once in place, it did not move. It was easy to get the depth of the staple correctly. When you shoot the staples, you have to take the time to be sure that you located the stapler correctly on the tongue or the staple ends up in the field. This makes it a little slower than the mallet operated units with a dedicated shoe. Great unit for the price and I would recommend it.

I opted to buy this thing instead of buying a more expensive brand or renting a more expensive brand from the big box home improvement store. I can honestly say I had zero issues with this (other than a few misses that were user error) and would recommend it for someone looking to save money on a one time job.We're remodeling our house and had half the flooring done already, but I decided to finish it out myself. I'm not a professional hardwood installer, so I didn't want to drop a ton of money on a big name stapler. Figured I'd give this a shot and hopefully it would at least last me one job.It was great. No issues at all. And I'm not kidding when I say it was cheaper than renting one. It took me about two full days to finish this up. So if I rented it at 6 AM, and returned it the next evening at 6 PM, it would have cost me $66 without including gas and driving time (30 minutes each way) to get and return it. This gun cost me less than that. If you have an air compressor already, just do it. Couple drops of pneumatic tool oil in it right before we started and then just got to work.

Looked at other more expensive nail guns and decided to give this one a try. Had 600 sqft of 3/8in engineered flooring to place. This gun worked great! Would buy again if needed and for the price you can't go wrong.

This is a great tool. I put down 600 square feet of hardwood, 5/8" engineered flooring using 1 1/2" staples and lots of rug tack sticks with smaller staples without a misfire. With a 2 gal air compressor at 80psi, gun was flawless. The angle nose (easily installed or removed) worked great, but I became used to holding the angle for stapling without the nose and could go pretty fast. Maybe not the most agile for a pro, but excellent for the price (well below $300 either).

easy to remove foot to switch from straight to flooring angle

I've seen some glowing reviews of this staple/nail gun, and have to think that the author's are a bit inexperienced.Yes, this is an adequate gun for a small job. It feeds and shoots reliably - not one misfire in 12500 staples thus far. It's a solid gun, and comes packed like the Harbor Freight "Central Pneumatic" guns, and I have a few of those, so that's not necessarily a negative. The gun itself is equivalent to the $23 "2-1" 18 gauge gun at H.F., bolt for bolt, so I'm sure it's made at the same Chinese factory, albeit with the flooring plastic attachment. So, again, it's solid. I just put in 12,500 3/4" staples in flooring underlayment.For the negatives:1) Construction is just unnecessarily cheap. The plastic nose pops off with any amount of pressure, so just discard it after the second or third time. (You might get marks on your material without it, from the metal forks it covers, but it's going to come off the gun every 10 minutes anyway.)2) The gun doesn't maintain consistent drive depth. Either the staples blow through the material, countersinking too deeply, or it leaves them high, requiring a nail set and hammer to set them down. The depth adjustment wheel under the trigger is of little help. The compressor I'm using is well regulated, and I run about 95 PSI through the gun. Without the plastic nose, there are two metal forks that act as both safety and depth measurement, and they will compress into the wood when firing the gun. If you have a light touch, the staples can be too high, if you press a little harder, you end up blowing them too deeply into the wood. It's a real nuisance that you wouldn't have to deal with a better quality gun. (Try tapping down 1/3 of 1200 staples, and you'll get an idea of how much of a nuisance it was. It wasn't quite that bad, but on some sheets, it cost me an additional 15 minutes tap the high staples down. If my wife used the gun, we had to spend 10 minutes readjusting the depth.)3) Again, as with #1, construction is cheap. There are two plastic adjustment knobs for the floor attachment, and one was missing. (Fixed it with a bolt from a local hardware store, but still ... cheap.)Summary: It's a $23 Harbor Freight gun with a $10 plastic flooring attachment.My advice: I had the chance to pick up a reconditioned BOSTITCH or SENCO gun for about $40 or $50 more, and if I did this again, that's the direction I'd go. This gun just has too many defects for a flooring project. Buy a better used one, or put out the bucks for a new SENCO and sell it after your project.