![]() ![]() Loading up is easy: Slide the pusher back… Drop some tiny pins in, and get to work! Launching Some Pins Seems pointless, for a “headless” pin, but what do I know… At any rate, just slide the holder forward, pop in an M12 battery, and you’re locked and loaded and ready to make some tiny holes. Note: Most of these pins come with arrows printed on the side, to indicate which side should be facing down. Just depress the magazine release, slide the pusher to the rear, and drop in a strip of your favorite headless pins. Loading up the Milwaukee M12 pin nailer is a snap. A battery gauge built into the pinner helps you keep tabs on your remaining power supply. We didn’t verify that, but I never came close to running a battery down, even after several days of intermittent use. Milwaukee claims the 1.5Ah M12 battery will last long enough to sink up to 750 pins. The pinner is very compact, but the handle is plenty roomy.Īny Milwaukee M12 battery can be used to power this little pinner. There’s plenty of room around the handle, even for my largish hands. There’s some rubber overmold on the handle to help prevent slipping, and make the pinner a bit more comfortable to hold. Like the larger nailers in Milwaukee’s lineup, the Milwaukee M12 pin nailer feels very solid and well-made. When I freed the pinner from its packaging, the first thing I noticed was its build quality. The Milwaukee M12 pin nailer kit comes in a handy storage bag. We received the kit to evaluate, and I will say I’m very happy to have the bag to keep everything corralled. Both versions include a belt clip and two non-marring tips. The kit provides a charger and a 1.5Ah M12 battery along with the pinner, and also includes a soft rectangular contractor case, which is large enough to store it all, along with an assortment of pins (the pins aren’t included). ![]() If you’re already on the M12 platform, with a battery and charger, buying the bare tool will save you around $50. Magazine Capacity 120 Pin Nails Pinning Down The Details On The Milwaukee M12 Pin NailerĪs with most of their tool lineup, the Milwaukee M12 pin nailer is available as a bare tool, and in kit form.Magazine Reload Indicator and Dry Fire Lockout Mechanism.(2) Interchangeable, Non-Marring, Precision Point Tips Included.Ĝompatible with 1/2″ to 1-3/8″ 23 Gauge Headless Pin Nails.ĝouble-Action Trigger for Sequential Driving.Here’s the full list of specs from Milwaukee: ![]() The magazine can accommodate 120 pins, and you can choose pins from ½” to 1-3/8” in length. This allows the pinner to launch the pins with absolutely zero ramp-up time, and to sink them fully into both hard and soft varieties of wood. Like some of its larger Red brethren, the Milwaukee M12 pin nailer relies on a nitrogen gas spring mechanism to propel the tiny 23-gauge pins. The Milwaukee M12 Pin Nailer, ready to help out with the small stuff They’re very useful for attaching small pieces of molding or trim, assembling small projects, or for holding wood parts together and in position after they’re glued up. A pin nailer is a small nailer that shoots tiny, 21-ga or 23-ga (23 is smaller) miniature nails called pins. While there may indeed be someone out there who feels the urge to do just that, in actuality pin nailers are very useful tools. Some of you may be unfamiliar with pin nailers, and are undoubtedly wondering why the heck anyone would want to nail a pin to something. They sent one along to us here at HomeFixated, so we could explore the joys of launching tiny chunks of steel while going walkabout. Once they had all the big guns taken care of, they had a tiny space left on the shelf, and they recently filled it with the Milwaukee M12 Pin Nailer. Regularly using a tool that can launch chunks of steel at high velocity, while wrestling with an air hose and listening to the obnoxious roar of a compressor, often while perched at the top of a ladder, is inspiration to ask the question “Do you feel lucky today?” Over the past few years, the folks at Milwaukee Tool have been perfecting the art of the cordless nailer, with a lineup that includes finish nailers, framing nailers and staplers. ![]() In the category of “Best candidate for cordless tools,” nailers have to be at or near the top of the list. ![]()
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