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The package was missing one part that I wanted most and that was the cushion on the tip so it wouldn't damage your wood. The product has operated fine, except that the safety has to be just so. If you are doing some fine moulding it doesn't always fire.
The only wear seems to be a little less depth adjustment. I bought it to do a basement finish and have subsequently used it for several furniture projects, finishing our son's new house, our daughter's closet cabinets and other jobs. After thousands of nails of varying lengths, I could probably count the number of misfires on one set of fingers. Update 1/9/2010: Add another house. I would buy another. The gun is starting to look like a beat-up stock-car but still works fine.I have owned the earlier version of this nailer for about 9 years and it is a good machine. We are in late stages of finishing our new home and we did most of the trim and some cabinet work ourselves. I looked at the owner's manual for the BN125A and it appears to be nearly identical to mine.
Aside from this nailer I own several other Porter-Cable pneumatic nailers and have been very pleased with all of them. If you have no need to shoot brad nails longer than 1.25", this nailer is perfect. I have owned this tool for about 3 years. During this time I have used it to build furniture, install various sizes of trims and mouldings, and construct a number of craft projects.This is an exceptional tool, I have shot thousands of brad nails with it and it has never once jammed or failed to perform perfectly.
I didn't want to spend alot to be disappointed again. This nailer is smooth and easy to operate. Had bought a bargain nailer for doing trimwork around the house. I wasn't. Only drawback is the max length of the nails is 1 1/4". It kept jamming and finally gavwe up the ghost. Price buyers are twice buyers.
PC's finish nailer and framing guns are rough and aggressive which makes it easy to damage your project. I recommend stepping up to the gun that can fire up to 2" pins. Brad nailers must be the easiest guns to manufacture because the rest of PC's guns are unrefined. This brad nailer is a good gun for its price. You'll probably finding yourself limited with 1.25" pins. The brad nailer fires very smooth shots and never jams. I find myself using it for sensitive crown mouldings and casing on the jamb side.
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