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

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.

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

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.

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.

Purchased this Bostitch siding nail gun for several pieces of siding that needed replaced. I like everything about this pneumatic nail gun. You are able to set nail depth and the feeder works perfectly. Very easy set-up using Bostitch 2" coil siding nails purchased for the local Menards. Highly recommend this nail gun.

For the price, this is great. I shot about 300 nails in my latest siding job and only two or three were misfires. The hook is large enough to hang it from scaffolding and the gun is light enough that you don't get tired lugging it around. I'd buy again for sure

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 purchased this air nailer to put new siding on my 1997 built shed. I am installing cedar batten and board using cedar fencing plank. The .092 ring shank nails hold great that this gun fires. This Bostitch N66C is the right tool for the job. Ask me how I know. Because my roofing nailer only fires smooth .120 shank nails reliability. You need to be able to fire ring shanked nails reliability for siding and fencing. I really like that the gun comes with two triggers. One for bump firing (black one) and the sequential trigger “ one nail per pull of the trigger (grey trigger). Triggers are not hard to change. You just need a small punch to push the pen out. Just feeds the ring shank nails from a coil reliably.