Spent $450 on a brand new framing nailer and returned it after one job

I was on a roof in Austin last Tuesday and that fancy Bosch nailer jammed five times in two hours, so I grabbed my beat-up Hitachi from 2012 out of the truck and it ran perfect. Am I the only one who thinks these new digital safety triggers are a total waste of time?

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felix_williams711mo ago

That Bosch is a pretty paperweight with a trigger that thinks too much. I swear my old Hitachi from 2012 just knows when to fire, no questions asked. @carr.elliot I get that digital triggers can stop a double fire, but have they ever actually fixed a jam while you're hanging off a roof in the Texas heat? Ain't no sensor gonna save you from that. You'd have better luck teaching a puppy to use a level.

carr.elliot1mo ago

I get where you're coming from with those jam issues on the Bosch, and I've had my share of rental nailers act up too. But I think the digital safety triggers serve a real purpose, especially for guys like me who have been doing this for 35 years and have had a close call or two when a nail doubled. The old mechanical triggers can fire if you bump them just right, which has caused a lot of hand injuries I've seen reported. Maybe the problem isn't the trigger design itself but how the safety sensors are set up on that particular model you tried.