Needle Gun Recommendations

[sako243]

I've been attacking the 6x6 chassis with a Clarke needle gun that we've had for years. I think I originally bought it about 20 years ago but my father thinks it's his since it's lived at the farm all it's life. Typically it's sat in a draw for decades with very very intermittent use and I've been using it fairly intensively recently on the chassis. Now he NEEDs it back urgently to do some work on the digger. So to keep things simple I'll just get my own.

The Clarke has been doing it's job pretty well - I suspect it could do with a slightly less restrictive pipe to it as it runs faster for a second or so until the pressure drops off.

So any other recommendations, I'm happy with the performance of this one but I don't mind spending a little bit if there's something better, if its part of a hammer kit then that'd appeal more as more uses. Hopefully once things are done on the 6x6 there'll be minimal work going forward but there will be work I suspect.

 

[Brad93]

Trelawney

Rebranded by Ingersoll if I remember correctly

They are the industrial standard and made in the UK.

We've done 72 hour shifts round the clock using them

 

[bourbon]

Get the same again. remember, the needles are available as a spare part. Unusually, we keep them instore.

 

[sako243]

Trelawney

Rebranded by Ingersoll if I remember correctly

They are the industrial standard and made in the UK.

We've done 72 hour shifts round the clock using them

Little bit (in multiples of 100x) more than I was planning on spending. Up to a couple of hundred possibly but not the thick-end of £500.

Given the Clarke one has been doing the job quite well will probably just order another of the same.

 

[Prajna]

Diddles do them from time to time. I have one but haven't tried it yet (the bodywork job I got it for went somewhere else, thank goodness). Cheap as chips though.

 

[6ply]

I have the same cheap Clarke one, albeit mine looks like it has seen more use. I replaced the snapped spring once (generic part) and I think I'm still using the original needles. I have nothing to compare it with, but I would happily buy the same again.

 

[jjwoods]

The clarke one tends to need replacement needles quite often, i used it over 7 days on 8.5 hr shifts, one of them even snapped the piston and this was with oiling daily, they are good but id buy a expensive version as it would last longer on consumables, and no before anyone says i was not pushing it into the steel its just had heavy use for most of the day