American General Tool Group Air Locker AP700 Nailer/Nail Remover Kit with Extra Driver

This is one amazing tool .. I build farmhouse country furniture with distressed old barn boards ... usually full of nails. It was very time consuming, and was the one job wasting a lot of my valuable time. Place the nozzle over the end of the nail, straighten it up a bit, if necessary, and bam! ... blow it right out of the board. It takes only seconds to clear a board. I wish I had known about this tool years ago, should be a stable in every carpenters tool box. CAUTION!! read the info and watch the video, or you could kill the neighbours dog across the street. Care should bet taken to contain the projectile.

I had 3 pallets to tear apart. After seeing a video about the Air Locker AP700 I decided to try it. Pounding out nails has been a hassle for me for years since I have a vision problem and have to get close to what I am working on. I am very impressed with the tool. It is light weight but seems sturdy. It has the power at 90 psi to either knock out the nails entirely or most of the way so they pull easier. A couple of nails broke off in the barrel but this caused no problem. I just pointed it at the bucket and pulled the trigger. They came out nicely. Point of Note: Great Idea on the video I watcher about the Air Locker AP700. Take a 5 gallon bucket. Place a board over it with a slot of about 1" wide x 4" or so long. I just screwed together 4 scrap pieces to form the similar size opening. Then lay your piece of wood you are working with the nail over the opening. Nail goes in but does not bounce back at you. Good safety tip.

Good product. Timely Delivery.

If you own a compressor and like to take pallets apart this is the toy for you! Normally there's two types of people in this world, those who saw pallets apart and those who pry them apart. Both types of people end up with nails that need removing. Note these are shipped from the US at the moment, I had a delivery notification saying it had been delivered but there was no deliveries on my ring doorbell, I contacted amazon in a panic, it turns out sometimes this happens and my airlocker arrived a couple of hours later, it felt far more dramatic at the time than it sounds now. If you saw then those runners are ruined no matter what as you've left the business end of the nail in. If you pry then you can salvage both the runner and the slat. Getting the airlocker over the nail body you use it to straighten the nail slightly then squeeze the trigger and bang the nail is gone, it flies out at some rate too! If you are one of those who chop through the nails then you just place the air locker over where the nail body would have been and pop out it comes it can take a few goes to work out exactly where the alignment is. Overall using the air locker is super fun this in combination with a pallet buster makes the whole process of disassembly take only a few minutes. I love it!!

This product was gift for friends who've started a pallet salvage business, manufacturing things like deck furniture and flower containers. After several months use they're delighted that the Air Locker even removes long screws. It has stood up well and so far they haven't needed to use the spare piston that I bought. Recently they stated that it works so well that they would buy a replacement if needed in the future.