Air Locker AP700 Heavy Duty Professional Air Punch Nailer/Nail Remover/Nail Puller. 1/4 Inch NPT Thread Air Inlet. 80-120 PSI Pneumatic Nailer Removes 9-16 Gauge Nails

Just got this today, and had to play with it immediately. I had a stack of pallet boards waiting for me in the garage, with their stubborn twisty nails all intact. A few days ago, I pried apart several pallets with the Vergo Pallet Buster (also an excellent product). Trying to hammer or pry the nails with a hand tool is really just a horrible idea (as you've likely already figured out), especially when you could use this bad mother instead. Note: the AP700 doesn't come with a coupler (the thingy that you screw into the bottom of the AP700 that attaches to the air hose). Be sure to use some thread tape on your coupling to prevent air leakage. Also, if you are like me, you might wonder what the rod thingy is that comes with the AP700. Just store it; it's a replacement part for the inside of the tool. Okay, so I screwed in the coupling, attached the hose, and turned on the air compressor. My compressor automatically pressurizes to 100 psi (and that worked just fine). If you are more comfortable with a lower psi, that's fine too. Definitely don't need to go over 100 though. All you do is slide the nose of the AP700 over the [pointy end of the] nail, press the trigger and KER-PLING! and a spark and your nail has become dislogded with such force that it is now a ricocheting projectile in your workspace. This is no joke, and potentially very hazardous, so even though it's easy as cake to use the tool (you can hold the board with one hand and gun the nail with the other, or set the board across a couple sawhorses, or whatever suits you), certain precautions MUST be taken. Firstly, don't use this naked. Thick or baggy clothes. Wear goggles. Do this in an enclosed space, unless you're somewhere where it doesn't matter if nails are flying god-knows-where. Find a way to prevent your nails from being projectiles. One very simple way is to put a blanket in the bottom of a plastic storage tote, and have it sitting right below your pounding spot. The nails will shoot into it and their force will be absorbed by the blanket, thus preventing ricochet and collecting your nails in one convenient location. When using the gun, you can lower the nose all the way to the board before you pull the trigger (for a more powerful punch), or lower the nose only partway onto the nail (advisable on thinner boards and end nails, to prevent any injury to the wood). Sometimes the nail doesn't punch all the way out, and that's okay! Just set those boards in their own pile, then take a pry bar (or hammer) and quickly pry the hangers-on the rest of the way out (takes little effort, especially if you step on the board at the same time to hold it down). Also, bent nails arent a problem. Just slide the nose over the nail and bend it back to as straight as it'll go, then give it a punch. It should shoot right out. So, as of day 1, I'm more than pleased with this tool; it is perfect for depalleting. I'd be foolish to do it any other way. Unless you want the look of the nail heads in place, in which case you could use a cutting wheel to cut the nails off. Anyway, good luck out there builders and de-builders!

What a great invention! It removes nails from pallets from the reverse. So now if you knock out the pallet wood gently leaving nails in the wood sticking out, just pull out this handy dandy gun and shoot them suckers out from the back. WEAR EYE PROTECTION, FACE PROTECTION, CHEST PROTECTION!Place wood over a bucket, and shoot out nail from the back so nail goes in bucket not over your garage.Saves a lot of time with reclaimed wood, nail removal without splitting wood, and allows you to use table saw on reclaimed wood without fear of hitting a nail, woo hoo! I love this tool so much.

I bought this thing to help me remove nails from pallets that I take apart and have to say that this thing is a game changer. It made a task that was extremely time consuming and at times difficult, a very easy and even fun one. This gun just blasts the nails right out of the wood, even the thicker pieces of wood. I have also used this to set broken pieces of nails deeper into blocks of wood so that I can fill the holes with putty and cover them up.

As a beginning woodworker, I often use reclaimed lumber because of its price (usually free). For some, that may mean pallet wood; for me, it's hardwood flooring. I picked up hundreds of boards of maple from someone redoing their flooring. The wood was just gorgeous, but was full of gnarly, notched nails that were all buried deeply into the wood past the nail heads. Trying to pry these out without the pneumatic de-nailer would have taken far more time than I was willing to spend for free wood. I tried one just to see; between pounding the nail part-way out with a hammer, flipping over the board and grabbing the nail with pliers, and wiggling, twisting and pulling until the nail came free, I spent more than a minute on one lousy nail and it was physically tiring. Maple is hard wood and these nails were deeply and firmly inserted. In the same time, I could pop out 15 or 20 nails with this de-nailer.If the de-nailer doesn't completely pop the nail through the wood, you'll still need to finish prying it out from the other side. The perfect tool for this is a specialized nail-pulling plier with a curved fulcrum. I used this one, also from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Crescent-NP11-11-Inch-Pulling-Pliers/dp/B008NM6VAAAfter popping out hundreds of nails, I feel confident in wholeheartedly recommending this tool!

This thing will knock protruding nails out no problem. I need to check the instructions to see if the driver can be adjusted shallower, because out of the box it will also knock a 1/4" deep hole into the wood at every nail site. Doesn't sound like much but it's enough that salvaging the wood for reuse is diminished.

A lot of the tedium and time of demolishing an old wood structure is de-nailing the wood. I don't like to landfill the boards since they are biodegradable and many times can be recycled, but not with nails still in them. You also cannot burn them which requires you to cut them up further, unless the nails are removed.This Air locker makes it almost fun. I drive the nails out of 1" boards into a bucket with sand in it. It sends the nails completely through and flying out the other side. Just put the tube of the Air Locker over the nail and pull the trigger.I am also removing pressure treated 2x4 and 2x6 deck planking on an old weathered deck.. A lot of the nails are so rusty that you cannot hammer them from the back without they bend over or break off, leaving most of the nail still in the wood. Time consuming to dig out or punch out, The air locker drives the rusty old nails through but not quite as far as the thinner wood. Then you just flip it over and use a crow bar to finish pulling, but the nail is easy to pull then with the head exposed and the rust binding the nail has been freed up by the impact. Only a few of the nails don't go very easily.