Arrow Fastener ET200 Heavy Duty Electric Nail Gun
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Arrow Fastener ET200 Heavy Duty Electric Nail Gun
Customer Review: I'll never get these five minutes of my life back.
Summary: 1 Stars
I'll be as nice as I can about this POS. I wish I could find the person who made this catastrophy and punch him in the face. I have two small kids and just had my basement redone. Getting time to do anything at all is a blessing. So, I have this new basement, new decorative ceiling tile, new tile floor...the works. It's Friday night and my wife decide to go down in the basement and do some finish work......because we are all excited about the newly finshed basement. Plug this f-ing thing in and it spits out 3 nails (that didn't even go half way in) and it stops. I do what all of you have done and sit there in all my frustration trying to figure out what the F is wrong with it. So, I walk around the house plugging this bstrd in to any hole I can find and NOTHING. My Friday night is shot and I won't have any spare time for another two weeks. I am so mad that I want to take a hammer to this pile of steaming dog sht but I know I won't get my money back. I'm never............ever.........EVER buying an ARROW product again. I'll slam nails into molding with my forhead before I ever pick up an ARROW product again. Thank alot, ASHHOLEs. Customer Review: Useless
Summary: 1 Stars
To begin with, there's not much to choose from out there. If you want an electric gun that shoots both staples and brad nails, these only fit nails up to 9/16. This ET200 is the only one I found which will hold a longer 1.25 inch brad but no staples.
So I bought the Arrow ET200 yesterday, thinking Arrow's been in the business for a long time and make perfectly decent manual staplers so they should have this down by now. Electricity is not new technology, Arrow must have come up with a very good product here.
WRONG!! I read all the instructions, properly loaded the inch and quarter brad nails, plugged in the unit, released the safety switch, firmy placed the gun against the pine wood work surface to be fastened and pulled the trigger.
Not only did the nail not fully penetrate the soft wood but, the unit failed to fire another nail upon pulling the trigger again. All I got was a clicking sound but no power. I thought I must have a jammed nail (very disappointing after the very first use). I followed all the directions for clearing a jammed nail but there wasn't one. Everything seemed to be in perfect working order but the gun just would do nothing when I pulled the trigger. It seemed as if the unit was getting no power. I checked the plug, the outlet, went to other working outlets in the house... still nothing.
Today I returned the item to the store thinking I must have gotten a defective unit. I exchanged it for a new one, brought it home, checked it thoroughly, read the directions again, proceeded to load nails and use as directed. The same thing as yesterday happened. One nail shot about 3/4 of the way into the soft pine and then the gun quit working. No power, just a click from the trigger. No jammed nail, no defective parts, no nothing. The unit does absolutely nothing. I can't figure out what's wrong. There must be something I'm overlooking but I've looked over and over and re-read the meager instructions and nothing! That's two in a row: Nothing. I don't get it. I recommend that you don't get it either.
Customer Review: Wholesale garbage
Summary: 1 Stars
I spent an hour trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, even called arrow customer service to find the power adjustment that I just could not see. The agent was kind enough to tell me that they had never gotten a complaint about the ET200. Yeah right. DON'T waste your time with this Piece Of Shnot. I would be surprised if it could drive the smallest of nails into balsa wood.
Customer Review: No more a nail gun than I am a carpenter.
Summary: 1 Stars
Sometimes, a product is so well designed, so well made, and fulfills its function so beautifully, that it is a joy to own. While not one of these products, this one looks so capable and fails so completely that it enhances the experience of owning something that really does work. It comes in a terrific case that has little slots for all the brad sizes the gun can accommodate. The case has a slot for the instruction sheet and the gun fits so well, it's actually possible to get it back into the case. So, 5 stars to the case. In fact, opening the case and looking at this tool and the marvel of organization this setup is, I was confident that I could nail a thin strip of molding to a fence. But I couldn't. The nails wouldn't go through the 1/4 inch molding.
Since the brads this thing shoots are so fragile, I had a hard time hammering them into the wood without bending them. What this thing did do well is hold the brads, keeping me from dropping them into the weeds; and setting them, keeping me from hammering my fingers. It also makes a great tool noise.
I should have read the other reviews before buying this thing. I have no standards for workmanship, unless it's important enough for me to pay someone competent to do it. So, I'll keep this thing and use it. I'll just keep firing, hammering, and bending as many brads as it takes to hold something in place. If it really matters, I'll hire somebody who knows how to do it. Also, I'll already have the tool if I'm ever faced with the need to nail Jello to sheetrock.
Customer Review: Look elsewhere
Summary: 1 Stars
I was looking for a reasonalbly priced brad nailer to put down some quarter round molding. An electric model seemed a good choice - cost-effective and easy to carry around. I purchased the ET200 at my local home improvement store, and to second the opinion of other reviewers - what an awful product!
Before I got started, I tried out the nailer with a scrap piece 3/4" quarter round molding. Attempting to fasten it to the baseboard with a 1 1/4" brad left atleast 1/2" of the brad sticking out. (This was Pergo molding, real soft stuff - my backsaw went through it like a hot knife through butter). Just to confirm the shoddy performance, I also tested it with a block of soft wood (the kind you can easily dent with a fingernail, probably pine), again with the same result - atleast 1/2" of the brad was left in the air. This was with a good part of my body weight bearing down on the workpeice as I pulled the trigger.
Luckily, I had also purchased a tube of Liquid Nails adhesive along with the nailer, and the adhesive alone got the job done just fine.
Next time I tackle a job that absolutely requires a brad or finish nailer, I will invest in a air tool and compressor.
The ET200 is going back to the store.