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Senco 1C0001N AF25 Air Free 5/8-Inch to 2-1/8-Inch 18-Gauge Brad Nailer | List Price: $329.00
Discount Price: $388.95
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Brand: Senco
Binding: Tools & Hardware
Features: - Drives up to 1,000 nails per charge
- Includes two 12 -volt/ah batteries
- Adjustable depth of drive
- No expensive and smelly fuel cells
- Belt hook
too bad . . . [Posted on 2005-02-15]
When this tool works, it's great. Unfortunately, it's not reliable. I sent it back when the gun quit driving nails--revving up, then dying down--and the Senco dealer place fixed it and sent it back. It worked great . . . until today. Now it won't do anything. I called Senco, and they said it needs repair--the clutch is stuck, and they said that if hitting the thing with a hammer a few times won't free it up, it needs to be repaired. I called the closest repair place and the guy, who sounded tired, told me I could put mine in line with the other 6 he has waiting for backordered parts for repair. Since I need the thing to work when I need it to (I've had it for about a year, and use it for building cabinets) instead of when it feels like working, I guess I'll have to buy a compressor.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? [Posted on 2005-02-25]
This tool manufactured by Senco is not good quilty and definitly not for professional applications. We have purchased a lot of senco pnumatic products in the past with very good results. This tool had poor results right away in dense woods. After some use the results where sparatic: 1) intrermitent falure to fire, 2) Unpredictable depth in the same piece of material & Jambing often. Both of our Senco AF25 Air free's currently sit out of service.
We have since Purchased sevral Dewalt 18V nailers ( Dewalt has 18V Vs 12V for the Senco ) the Dewalt also has a production seting that allows rapid fire like an air nailer; the Senco on the other hand does not have this feature.
I'm sorry to say, I reccamend a pass on this Senco product.
Home remodeling [Posted on 2005-07-25]
I used it for triming windows. Worked flawlessly. Would sink 2 inch brad nails in solid oak. No cords or hoses to trip on. Excellent tool highly recommend it.
When tools collide =-o [Posted on 2006-09-01]
I have had to return this tool for service, that is true. The tool was released to the market with a latent defect in the driving mechanism, but this was corrected in 2005 (I think) according to the technician.
This is a very nice tool to have on the bench for occasional use, even if you do own a compressor. Also good for small jobs offsite. (I own several cordless electric tools for the same reasons.)
UPDATE: One of the 12V batteries crapped out, making it impossible to charge one battery while using the other. New batteries are *breathtaking* in their expensiveness. So, I did what any other self-respecting engineer||handyman would do-- I fabricated my own 18V adapter from the shot 12V battery and a donor 18V flashlight from my Big-Orange-Store-"Brand-R"- battery-powered tool set! It sure looks weird, like the Frankenstein-ian monsters from the movie, "Toy Story."
But it works.
Three years and four boxes of nails later, the (now 18V) monster yet lives!
Quit working [Posted on 2007-02-21]
Tool worked fine for about 5 small trim jobs,now all it does is rev-up and DIE.I own 9 other Senco air tools,some for over 20 years.this airless tool needs some redesigning.I will not buy another
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