How do you spell relief?

[Don]

I'm prone to workshop violence when the frustration level gets too high. Case in point, a crappy tool that can't drive a staple completely. I'd get po'd every time I put my hands on it and knew that I would keep using it if it didn't meet with an untimely death. This ought to do it. How do you guys cope with stress when the workshop muse is not on your side?

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name withheld on account of shame

[woodman43]

I go ahead and spend the money on quility tools so I don't have this problem.
When the stress gets to much I drink one beer very quickly and the second almost as quickly. Then all is good. Everything goes great after that.

[thekl0wn]

Just out the back door is the gun range... You'd be surprised at what a .45 with a clip of hollow points and an old pumpkin can do for stress... I go from being ready to burn down the shop to giggling like a school girl in a matter of minutes... Of course, there have been a few tools that have met their death when pumpkins are out of season... :eek:

[Terry Mac]

I know your shame. It's a Horror freight special. I've got one. . . . . well there's one at the house, lets put it that way.

I've been known to throw things; which helps. Drinking a beer CERTAINLY HELPS. Trying to get the dog to pee on the now thrown tool helps. I do try to stand away from the project I'm working on though; I don't want to lose the progress to that point.

[Dagster]

I step away because I can't afford to replace a tool every time I get upset :D

Basically I avoid most hassles by spending the $$ for high quality where it counts. I know it isn't always possible but it sure saves headaches sometimes.

[Don]

What's thirty buck among friends? It'd be worth that just to hit it with the .45 Glad I don't live where kl0wn does, I wouldn't have any tools left.

Anyway, got a new Rigid gun and a Craftsman one as well to eval. Of course they cost four times what the busted one did. I'm used to the Senco SKS series, they have a larger air magazine and simply hit the material harder - as well as your wallet. I guess those guns now sell for between $200-$300?? http://www.senco.com/con_rem/ViewTool.aspx?toolid=37

Seems to me these things were close to $400 when Senco was just about the only player around. I just don't use a stapler that much to justify too much money spent. Since I'm not at a plant where I've got access to borrow these things like I used to, oh well.

Turn up the pressure on the compressor!

dawjr

[thekl0wn]

Have you ever looked around on the used market? Whenever I was helping dad in construction, I was the one in charge of going to the rental places, stores, etc, and I was always inquiring about used tools, and usually had something up for sale/trade. Sometimes it pays to be a bullchitter! :D

[Don]

I settled on the Rigid R150FSA - only $109.00 What a nice gun. Used it all weekend and it never mis-fired, skipped a fire, or the dreaded, "I didn't sink the last one you fired so now you have to pull the trigger again," trick. It will sink an 1-1/2" staple in hard yellow pine and that's about all you can ask of an 18ga. staple. It has some really nice features as well, adjustable depth of drive, rear, directable exhaust, swivel quick connect, sequential or contact trigger, magazine empty lock-out. Plus an Mg body, really light. This one's a keeper.

dawjr

[woodman43]

I settled on the Rigid R150FSA - only $109.00 What a nice gun. Used it all weekend and it never mis-fired, skipped a fire, or the dreaded, "I didn't sink the last one you fired so now you have to pull the trigger again," trick. It will sink an 1-1/2" staple in hard yellow pine and that's about all you can ask of an 18ga. staple. It has some really nice features as well, adjustable depth of drive, rear, directable exhaust, swivel quick connect, sequential or contact trigger, magazine empty lock-out. Plus an Mg body, really light. This one's a keeper.

dawjr

Sounds like a good one. Just don't throw this one across the shop.:D
I have a Dewalt that sounds like it has the same features, love it.