Hey everyone and welcome to Lift Free Intool on today we're talking about 18 gauge Bradenaylers and crown staplers and we're going to talk about what you want to use the crown stapler floor and what you want to use for 18 gauge so stick around everybody. This is the one for you Let's talk about the main differences between these two tools one shoot staples one shoot nail. This is a staple right here you can see and that's a nail. The staples are the more firm holding because it actually shoots two vertical pieces of steel whereas the nails they only shoot one but the nails have a head on them. Now what I always use the 18 gauge Bradenayler for is for fine woodworking something with stronger woods and I want to hide the nails and I don't want them to be that much visible so they have a little bit of nail head on the head of them you can sink them down into the wood and they're not as noticeable but they do hold the wood in very well. Something that I would use the crown stapler on is something of like a really fine foam something that you would get for crown molding things like that and it's made out of foam instead of wood but if you use a Bradenayler that's just going to blow straight through it because it doesn't have the surface area it doesn't have the catch of a stapler itself. Now you can use staples on wood you can use it on thicker wood this goes up to an inch and a half and this goes up to a two inch capacity. You know something that I also use as far as really thin trim even if it's wood around door frame I would say if it's a quarter inch or thinner than a quarter of an inch I always go for the crown stapler not so much the Bradenayler because it would just blow it through and I think the best way to show you that is to let's go ahead and demonstrate it. So we have a quarter inch piece of trim right here this is a 4x4 piece of pressure treated wood and it's put their both pine what I'm going to do is first we're going to shoot the Bradenayler in here. Okay so let's go ahead and pop it in. Okay so that's sunken in and it did a pretty good job you can't really see it you can see there so it's pretty well hidden here's the problem that you have it pulls straight out look at that. There's no issue pulling that straight out so this anyone bumps this it's going to come straight out that's for something like this that's when you really want to use the crown stapler. You see that it's not pulling out it's not going anywhere now you can pull it but it's taking big chunks out so you're using the more of the integrity of the wood to hold everything together. So it is stronger now the big difference is is this right here so let's put them in. Okay so what can you see right there you can see that is much more visible than that hole. Now to get away to get around that you can go ahead you can put some wood putty on there you can sand it down but what if you didn't want to do that and you just wanted to leave it. You know if you have really good cuts and you don't have the discoloration especially when you stain it you could just leave it that way and this is going to look aesthetically better but this structurally is more sound. Now this has to be a lot stronger because it has to push two essentially two nails a staple is two nails all the way in and it needs to counter sink it just a little bit there so they both have a time and a place for both. So let's go ahead and move on to some material that I would use a brand nail for that I necessarily would not use the crown stapler. Okay so this is half inch piece of plywood and it's nice you can sand the stoning do a lot with it but I will use this in a lot of cases and that's how far that I would put these nails apart but you can see I can actually pick that up. Now if I want to jerk it yeah I can come through because these are just small heads but let's see if I just put one in here. It's still a little pick it up right. Of course I can pull it off but the integrity of this wood being that it's half inch is a lot better than something that's a quarter of an inch and this is more core so it's going to it has a lot more fill inside of it. Where's the solid wood or if it's foam it really doesn't so you know that's where I would start to the delineation is when I start to get thinner wood from here. So that was just a simple demonstration to show you the big differences or at least the differences that I see and how I use these particular tools and you know I use them all the time. There are a lot of features on the tools and there are a lot of and there are similar too so on the base inside of here they have a multiple you can do one nail you can do multiple what that means was that you can set it. Hit one nail slider over hit another one instead of picking the whole thing up on the side this is the depth of how far the nails actually going to go in or the staple so depending on how far this is going in if it's not going in far enough you can adjust the back of it. There's a lot of good adjustments on this they have a lot of great reviews really doing a great job with these but these aren't the only ones out there I would encourage you if you're in the market and you're not invested in platform do a lot of research. I think for the homeowner and you know the hobbyist I think right away is a great way to go you're not really going to go wrong with it and it doesn't break the bank so you're going to be able to pick up these tools a lot less than you would a wall or a Milwaukee you know some of those higher brands out there like Makia Makita. So I really hope that this helped you out with this small short demonstration if you're in the market for these if it did please consider subscribing. Don't forget to hit the like button and I hope to see you in the next video take care everybody.