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I have had two of the P650 headless pinners for about 5 years and one of them needs a new driver..the driver has become brittle and cracked at the tip. So Grex says i need the driver kit and the o ring kit...$55 worth of parts. Gun has not even fired 20000 pins yet. Pretty dissapointed i thought these would last longer then that. I have a Porter Cable pinner that has fired about 5 times the amout of pins that the Grex has fired and the PC is only a $100 gun.
Would you guys rebuilt the Grex or trash it and just buy a brand new $100 gun?
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if you do not want to fix it I will take it
<<<<I would fix it
And I would not complain these units take a lot of abuse to drive a pinless head
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Like you I'm not impressed. I have run many of the boxes of 6k pins through my ridgid pinned and it's still like new. Even ran several boxes through my harborfreight one before I gave it away and never a problem.
I use pins for jigs and all sorts of temporary holding of stuff. And when I do I use a bunch...
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I bought my Grex because (at least at the time) it could shoot longer pins than my PC. I wonder if shooting longer pins, needing more 'umph' puts more wear and tear on the parts.
See ya later,
Bill
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Actually this gun has mainly only shot 5/8" pins for building cabinet doors. It is weird the cheap PC gun outlasted this $270 gun by a LOT of shots.
The guy at Grex was saying i need the o ring kit and that is what might have caused the tip to go bad
