Never used a Bostitch framer but haven't heard many good things about em. I only have used Paslode and Senco framers. That realy old super hard stuff isn't all ways very good for much. When I was redoing my roof, my Pasload could only sink a spike about 2 inches into the 140yr old rafters and beams. As long as I shot through new 2xs into the old the nails usually set fine (or needed one or two good wackes to finish them off). But When I dropped one of those old rafters down onto the sidewalk it shattered like glass. I thought to my self, wow never seen wood do that before.
----- Original Message ----- On Saturday 24 November 2012 01:07:19 Ben Potter did opine: > Stick it in a bucket with ammonia ^1) and it goes black pretty fast > (overnight). First noticed (or so I'm told) in stables. Can get some > interesting colouring effects with this - especially if you're just on > the edge of sapwood. > > Most things change colour somewhat with UV, and there's a big difference > between UV resistant and UV blocking (or protection in salespeak). > > 1) ideally you want the vapour to effect the wood - the wood should not > be in contact with the liquid ammonia. > How does the ammonia blacked oak compares in hardness to the 200 year old 8x8 beam when trying to drive a nail into it? I have a Bostitch framing nailer that can put a 3.5" cut head into fresh white pine, sinking the head 1/2" deep given 100+ psi in the hose. It was dangerous trying to nail a temp brace to that old oak, it went in about 1/4" and the nail exploded out the front, flying about 40 feet. We wound up drilling pilot holes and manually hammering in the nail enough for the temp braces. And when things were in place, a 3 foot wrecking bar to pull them back out the inch we put them in. Not all came back out, so the brace had to be split away and the nails bent back and forth to break off a few thou below the surface. That stuff was as hard as a rock, came out of the hay mow floor of an old dairy barn over in Maryland. > -----Original Message----- > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 November 2012 00:39 > To: st...@pilotltd.net; Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT: Desoldering station minor repair > > On 24 November 2012 00:22, Steve Blackmore <st...@pilotltd.net> wrote: > > Oak goes gray. > > Eventually it goes nearly black. > > http://www.bodgesoc.org/Slaithwaite2/Hall.JPG > > The upper cross-beam and the smoke-hood verticals are about 500 years > old, the main tie beam spent 3 years outdoors before the roof went on, > and the lower woodwork (door, doorframes, screen) is about 2 years old > there, but was waxed after building and has always been indoors. > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- -- > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, > vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a > single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, > vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown. -- Thomas Mann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- ======================================== Todd Zuercher mailto:zuerc...@embarqmail.com ======================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
