Freeman PCN65 Pneumatic 15 Degree 2-1/2" Coil Siding Nailer with Adjustable Metal Belt Hook

Have owned now for 4+ years. Just started using it seriously over the last 6 months. I have shot over 3500 nails with 99% success. The remaining 1% was a few pesky misfires or feed quirk.Great value for money….

Works very well. I have no experience with a top line nailer, and only bought this lower price unit for my personal use. I had bought one from HF. It would frequently jam or not fire a nail. I exchanged it for another and had the same problem. This nailer works very well with Metabo nails. I add a drop of oil when I put it away.

Drove a couple thousand Metabo siding nails with this thing and only a few jams. More double-fires than jams. It works well enough. Heavy, loud AF, and the wire collating tends to take flight. So make sure you are equipped with your PPE. Ear and eye protection for sure.

Trabaja muy bien no esperaba tanto de este producto

I was really hopeful that this Freeman Siding Nailer was going to be exactly what I needed. I am not a professional contractor and cannot justify spending $250 - $350+ on the next cheapest siding nailers. I bought this nail gun at a very reasonable price and was hoping it was like a cheap framing nailer. I was hoping it would work fine for DIY use around the house it would last me forever, but if you used it on a construction site, it probably would not hold up. Wrong. I used this nail gun to drive in some replacement siding in a 5 ft wide by 6ft tall area and I had so many issues in this small area, I returned the nail gun.For a quick summary, at the SAME regulated air pressure, this nail gun:- drove nails in short so they were sticking out of the siding half an inch- drove nails all the way through the siding- drove nails perfectly into the siding like it is supposed to- the trigger got stuck in the up position so I couldn't fire another nail- the nail gun double fired two nails at least 5 times on me- one time the nail gun fired two nails simultaneously so they jammed into the nose of the nail gun and this nail gun got stuck to my house. I had to damage the siding, pry the nail gun off the house, cut the nails off with a wire cutter, and then use a punch to hammer the nails outMaybe you will have better luck, but by the looks of the other reviews, I would not buy this gun. I REALLY wanted this nail gun to work, but it just wouldn't.

Great value, great performance, I highly recommend it.

I'm a general contractor and I was looking for an inexpensive siding nailer for a small siding job with t1-11 siding so I bought this nailer and I'm very impressed I've had no issues whatsoever and would definitely recommend this gun to anyone trying to save money buying one

I read the directions. The instructions call for the gun to be oiled before use, but the instructions are extremely confusing about which type of lubricant to use, saying seemingly contradictory things, something like "use pneumatic tool lubricant" and "don't use air tool oil". These sound like the same thing. How am I supposed to purchase lubricant for this thing if I don't know what type to get?So I looked up online what type of oil is recommended for pneumatic nail guns, and the most common, most consistent, generic recommendations seemed to be 3-in-1 oil and mineral oil. I happened to have some food-grade mineral oil so I used a couple drops of that, only to later discover that the box had a small bottle of lube hidden away. Was use of mineral oil the cause for what I was about to experience? I don't know...I loaded the gun with 1.75" stainless nails, set air pressure, connected the air line, and pulled the trigger in preparation for driving a test nail. WTF WAS THAT?! It fired a nail! The instructions said I had to press the gun against the work piece before it would fire. Maybe I have gun adjusted incorrectly? Let's try increasing the drive depth... test... premature ejection again! Okay, reduce drive depth... test, and again! Okay, reduce air pressure... test... again! Reduce air pressure below 90 psi... test... not firing at all now.So I figured the instructions were wrong. I set pressure to where the gun was firing nails again, place the gun against the test piece, pulled the trigger, and the nail goes deeper than I want. Fiddle with depth setting on the gun, nails go deeper than desired right up to the point where the gun won't fire. Hmmm..... I guess cedar fencing and pine 2x4s with 1.75" nails is too light, but this isn't a catastrophic issue, so we'll just go with it.Used the gun for a couple hours. I'd put the gun up against the boards, pull the trigger and, most times, the gun would fire one nail. It was double-firing the vast majority of the time, but usually didn't pick up a nail on the 2nd blast, so fine. But a fair number of times it did drive two nails. I tried various ways of holding and triggering the gun, and the best I could do for a while was to position the gun a little above the board, move the gun toward the board, pull the trigger just before contact was made, allow a bounce. Went half a day like this, and the double fires seemed to be going down. Also noted that, eventually, the gun stopped the fear-inducing trait of firing nails on trigger pull without contact. Once that point was reached, things went much more smoothly, and the gun operated as described in the manual.I'm not a pro. This was my first time using a siding nail gun. Even with the gun working properly I'd still get a double-nail every twenty shots or so. One of my teenage relatives had much better success than I did, so this is probably a skill and body type thing.But, even with all the double-taps, the gun never once jammed on me. I drove about 1200 1.75" SS ringed nails putting up a fence.Worked well enough for the money for this crude job.Want absolutely-consistent shot-to-shot driving depth? Get a different tool, or practice.Want real adjustability? Get a different tool.No experience with nail guns and want minimal hassle? Get a tool that requires the trigger be squeezed and reset for each shot.Want a cheap tool for a small, one-off project? This just might be the tool for you.I don't have much use for this tool now my project is complete, so I'll probably sell it for half what I paid, and still come out ahead versus renting a tool for a few days from the orange depot.