spit or hilti?

[ayjay]

older sparkys may remember the spit gun?--- lethal
then the hilti
the spit fired the nail through a barrell
the hilti via a plunger, so far safer
the cartrages were coulour coded the spit cartiges had a coulered plasic capsual
black was the most powerful----

 

[Geordie Spark]

older sparkys may remember the spit gun?--- lethal
then the hilti
the spit fired the nail through a barrell
the hilti via a plunger, so far safer
the cartrages were coulour coded the spit cartiges had a coulered plasic capsual
black was the most powerful----

I remember the Hilti and the Swallow. Can't remember the Spit though.

 

[davesparks]

We had a couple of the newer spit ones at my first company, I've heard about the older ones though, they sound like fun!

 

[topquark]

Remeber both, fire arms license needed these days though

 

[Plonker 3]

Bloody things want banning, hate them with a passion. They make me jump even if I am just walking across site and one is used.

 

[mayfair]

Had a hilti thing that you put a bullet in then wacked it with a hammer it was in a posh tin box. Cant really remember exactly, too long ago

 

[moospark]

Bloody things want banning, hate them with a passion. They make me jump even if I am just walking across site and one is used.

Yup. you've proved your'e working on a dead cicuit, and one of those buggers go off in yourear!

 

[High Tower]

I've got a couple of different hilti guns, they are great !!

 

[Rockingit]

My Paslode makes enough of a crack to scare the neighbours away, anything else is just showing off!

 

[PEG]

I have an old Hilti,a new one and a paslode.The older Hilti uses the same short blanks as my captive-bolt (vegatarians look away...) The most interesting story i can muster regarding the older Hilti guns is during the Miners strike,me dad was a press photographer and covered a fair bit of it,anyway someone had rigged one to fire nails at the coppers...they have a spring loaded nose and it's not that hard...bit torn on that one coz me grandad worked for a while as a miner at Agecroft,and me sisters just got her Inspectors passed,so...:angel_smile:

 

[trev]

The place where I served my time had an old plunger Hilti gun. We figured out that we could fasten it in a vice and fire nails across the workshop. The boss wasn't best pleased when we narrowly missed him.
How the hell was I ever allowed to finish my time? I nearly spiked him with a nail, zapped him with a push button Megger, crashed his tractor, set fire to his workshop while teaching myself to braze, and he caught me "entertaining" his daughter

 

[Guest111]

Remeber both, fire arms license needed these days though

not true,I checked on this some months ago and they do not require a firearms license as they are defined as a powder actuated fixing tool,incidently a cable spiker doesn't need a firearms ticket either.

 

[djw]

I remember the Hilti and the Swallow. Can't remember the Spit though.

Took a little bit of time to suss that one out...

Have some Hilti carts lying about and a couple of boxes of fixings, no gun mind...