Case Study
Nail Gun Drive Cylinder
APPLICATION DETAIL Nail Gun Drive Cylinder Nail guns are used to drive nails into woods of varying hardness. Senco’s pneumatic SN1 nail gun was used with finishing nails up to 2 inches long (5.1 cm). Users of the gun often did not lubricate the gun properly, causing premature failure of the aluminum drive cylinder, an expensive machined component, so Senco engineers set out to design a nail gun having a plastic drive cylinder. Because th