BOSTITCH Coil Siding Nailer, Pneumatic Siding Nail Gun, 1-1/4-Inch to 2-1/2-Inch, 15 Degree (N66C)

Built a cedar fence using stainless steel nails with this nail gun . I used a small pancake compressor and it fired perfectly . Don’t forget to oil it !

I had a medium sized area of water damage on the exterior of my house that needed repair. I have cedar shingle siding. I've replaced a few shingles here and there, but only nailed by hand. Due to the size of this project and other future projects (fence rebuild, shed), I wanted to invest in a siding nailer. Being a homeowner/DIY'er, I didn't want to spend a small fortune on a tool that won't see too much action. With most things, not all things, I feel that you get what you pay for. At first, I tried looking for a used siding nailer, but I learned they're hard to come by. So "new" was the only choice at the time. I compared a few different brands and narrowed it down to the Freeman PCN65 Coil Siding Fencing Nailer and the Bostitch. It seemed that the Freeman was on the bottom end, and the Bostitch was in the middle. I obviously went with the Bostitch. This was mainly due to the hit and miss reviews on the Freeman's reliability and quality. Not just on Amazon, but other retailers too. Although the price of the Bostitch is a little bit more than the Freeman (when I purchased), I saw it more as an investment. Plus with most tools, if you take care of them, they will last many, many years. Or if you decided to sell, you could potentially get more return on it. The nailer feels solid, well built, and balanced. It comes with a nice plastic molded case for storage, or transporting. I hung about 50+ shingles with it and had no issues. No jamming. No misfiring. Depth adjustment was easy, and once set, no issues marring or splitting shingles. Loading is easy, I used these Grip Rite Prime Guard Max MAXC62872 15 Degree Wire Coil 1-1/2-Inch by .09-Inch Ring Shank, Stainless Steel Siding Nails 1,200 Per box nails. The hook is super convenient, especially when up on a ladder! It also has two triggers depending on how you want to fire nails. Contact, for rapid bump fire (think like roofers hanging shingles) or sequential fire, for precise placement. Overall happy with the purchase, made the last project move faster. Look forward to more! Only downside is, you'll also have to order a quick connect plug for air, which is a little disappointing, oh well. It would also be nice if they included oil too.

I recently bought this nailer to assemble 104 standard hive bodies. These are made from pine and have finger joints at the edges using a total of 40 nails per box. 40! The nailer required a compressed air fitting that was not supplied but are common at just about every hardware store. Out of the box it failed. Oh man was this thing bad. I wanted to smash it. Every other nail misfired. Pop, nail goes in. Pop, I get a dent and the nail coil was not advanced into the firing chamber. Pop Pop Pop no nails. Reseat the coil. Pop, one nail, then pop pop pop no nails. Reseat the coil in the right place. Over and over. I was in a bind. I had more than a hundred hives to build and this thing didn't work and I was using Bostitch brand galvanized ring shank nails (2.25" long, similar to the 7P nails used in beekeeping). I then grabbed my trusty can of Tri-Flow and gave the moving parts a good squirt and wiped off the excess. Then reseated the nails. Pop. Nail went in as expected. Pop. Nail #2 goes in, then #3 and then #4. Okay, this is good. A while later it misfired again. PTSD kicking in and I'm ready to smash this thing. Then I realize I ran through the whole coil of nails. I'm on box number two of nails now. ZERO misfires after that first few of that first 3600 nail box. The only time I see a dent and no nail is when I'm at the end of the nail coil. It works! I'm sold! After every roll I just give it a little spray of Tri-Flow and then a couple drops of pneumatic tool oil into the air fitting. I love this thing now. Pros: duh. It's a nail gun and they're awesome when they work. Cons: aside from the slow start, the recoil on the gun after several hundred nails tends to wear the skin at the 2nd knuckle of my right thumb -right next to the web of skin going to my first finger. Ouchie. A bandaid, mole skin, or even just a light mechanics glove will fix this. I've read all the reviews and figured I would get a good one that didn't have problems. I think the problems people were seeing can be solved with proper lubrication. Shooting the nailer right after spraying down the inside of the hatch where the nails run will result in spraying oil or the carrier fluid all over your woodwork so be careful. I spray and then walk away for a while to let it evaporate leaving only the Teflon behind (again, I'm using Tri-Flow). Liquid lubricants will need to have the excess wiped off or you'll get a lot of sprayed oil on your wood. The bees probably won't care but the paint won't stick well. I recommend this gun to any beekeeper that needs to assemble more than a handful of hives.

I've been eyeing a coil nailer for years, and I finally took the plunge - what a fantastic decision! Installing smart siding was a breeze with this tool, as it worked flawlessly and drove nails in consistently. I highly recommend it to anyone in need of one. Despite the higher cost, I'm thrilled with the purchase. It was delivered promptly and performs exactly as advertised.

Bought this N66C to put up around 300' of pressure treated fencing. I used this to shoot on the pickets with coils of 2" concrete coated galvanized ring shank nails. This gun worked flawlessly and I saved thou$and$ on my fence. I just let the neighbor use it to build her own fence that matches mine. Her daughter shot on pickets while her sons planted posts and installed cross rails. It turned out nice! if you look at the photos and wonder what the board is at the bottom that the pickets rest on, it is a "rot board" that makes ground contact to keep my pickets from wicking water and rotting. It is PT and can be replaced if/when it rots. This also makes the tops of the pickets perfectly level without trying to line them up using a string line. This method saved TONS of time... well worth the cost of an extra pressure treated 2x4 per fence section (less than $4 per section). The green treatment visible on the picket bottoms is copper naphthenate that I also bought on Amazon

Great nail gun works good

I bought this gun to nail on fiber cement siding. I thought it was going to set all nails flush with the surface of the siding. Frankly, I couldn't see how this would be posible since the hardness of studs varies and some nails may hit knots. Also some will miss studs and just strike OSB. I installed the single shot trigger when I got it. Well when using it the nails all vary in in depth, some shoot part way through the siding and some don't go all the way in. I sometimes get doubles. What I had to do was set the pressure low enough so that most the nails shoot close to the surface of the siding and then finish them off with a hammer. Since it's my own house I don't mind the extra time as I think it makes for a tighter lap. It would be a different story if I were applying siding for a living. I own four other Bostich guns and I believe I could get just as good of results using a 2 1/2" nail in my stick framer. However, I believe the siding warranty is void if you use a clipped head nail. I used to own a Bostich coil framer and I'll bet one of those would do just as well as the N66. On the plus side the N66 is a lightweight, well made and easy to handle gun and doesn't require a large volume of air so your compressor doesn't run as much as with a larger gun. I gave it three stars because it was called a siding nailer but mine doesn't perform any differently than my other nailers. Maybe it's just mine but I have tried varying the air pressure and the depth adjustment and have never acheived any consistancy in depth control. 12/22/09 Gun is working like it should now. I'm sorry if I misled anyone, I should have read the directions. On one of the forums someone told me I needed more air pressure. I was afraid too much pressure might damage something and they are only 2" nails so I kept the pressure at about 80 psi. Well, after listening to advice on a forum and reading the manual I upped the pressure to 105 psi and adjusted the nail depth all the way up. To my suprise when I shot them they were all consistent in depth, about a 1/4" high. Then I adjusted the depth control down until they shot at the desired depth and now they are very consistent. I'm still getting an occasional double but considering considering price, warranty and everything else I believe it's a five star now.

From all reviews online of the best and most expensive siding nailers, the Bostitch N66C is absolutely the #1 best. After completing several projects, I have to agree -- this siding nailer is the best! After driving well over a 2,000 nails, I had ZERO misfires and ZERO jams resulting in this product to be 100% reliable! However, to make sure you are 100% satisfied with this product, READ the instructions. This unit comes shipped with two different triggers, one black and the other grey. The black trigger (the one this unit is installed with as a default) is used for continuous operations; the other trigger (grey) is for sequential operation; i.e.; a nail is driven for each pull of the trigger. First, I changed the black trigger with the gray one due to my preference of driving one nail for each pull of the trigger; and, as a result, I never had a mis-fire, a jam, or firing two nails at once. Furthermore, to make sure this nailer operated properly, I used four to six drops of a high quality light oil to the air input. Next using high quality bicycle chain oil to the external parts; i.e., nail feeder and other external parts of the nailer insured perfect results. Tri-flow is an excellent choice lubricant for the external parts of this nailer. For my projects, I have used nails ranging from 1 1/4 inches to 2 1/2 inches and not once have I had a jam or a mis-fire. Overall, I've NEVER had a better tool than the Bostitch N66C and highly recommend it for durability, dependability, and continuous operation.

Hasta el momento todo está muy bien, esperemos continuar asi

Never even opened the box, realized it’s NOT for vinyl siding. This is more of a FYI review if your looking for a siding nailer for vinyl. Nail heads are too small. You need a coil roofing nailer with a vinyl siding attachment. Cheers. Nice nail gun though. So an uneducated 5 stars.

I have both this one and a hitatchi. The hitatchi is a much nicer gun, but this gun is perfectly functional. IT is light and it seams to work in the cold just fine. I bought it to have a second gun while doing HARDIE board. It works. IF I was going to be doing HARDIE all the time I would stick with hitatchi, but as a decent second gun or even an occasional primary it is just fine. No complaints. Well built.

I received my Bostitch nailer last week,Set up the gun for the first time today as I was waiting for my nails to arrive. Changed the trigger to the one that fires only once when the gun is activated. They arrived on Wednesday.,put in the nails,, fired the first nail, needed a slight adjustment, fired the second nail needed another small adjustment, fired the third nail just right, then took the gun to attach my wood, fired the gun, no nail, big spark, gun now completely jamed up, cannot open anything, the adjustment screw is wedged up into the black housing,so it completely disappeared. Gun has been taken the local Bostitch Service centre. They could not figure why it jammed, but I have since put it through roughly 600 nails, and now works well. In future you might put in some information on how to clear jams in the gun, quite easy, just put a drill bit the same size back down the barrow of the gun, using a hammer to tap it into the housing, it will clear the jam, and allow you to take out the jam through the nail door. I find that the nails have to be straight going into gun, if you see the slightest bend at the beginning of inserting nails into the gun, straighten out the nails completely,or it will most likely jam.

Light-weight, has never jammed even once (but I've gone through only a couple thousand nails so far), and comes with two trigger options, one for rapid fire pros, and the other a safer, single-shot per pull action (for the amateurs like I am, so I don't shoot myself in the foot or worse). No regrets.