Brad nailers shoot skinny nails called brads. Ranging from 3/8 in. to 2 in. long, brads are perfect for most door and window trim, baseboards and other moldings. Aside from speed, you get better-looking results with a brad nailer: no hammer dents in the wood, less splitting, smaller nail crarybearcatchippershredder holes to fill, and moldings don''t get knocked out of position as you drive nails. For heavier trim (3/4-in. thick moldings, for example), rent a finish nailer, which shoots thicker nails up to 2-1/2 in. long.TIP

But consider that when contract crews clean rarely are they supervised by someone who owns the equipment of uses it the next day. Think also of the cleaners'' perspective and experience with equipment. They can powerwash their $150 gas lawn mower and it starts right up afterwards, so how come they can''t hose off the front of a $30,000 combi-oven or the burners of a $5,000 range or griddle?A look at this year''s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show directory reveals that there were more than a dozen crarybearcatchippershredder manufacturers exhibiting all sizes and types of pressure-washing or steam-cleaning equipment. One has to wonder what foodservice equipment manufacturers think all those units are going to be used for--washing parking lots? It''s time for a reality check!

The new 16 lip, CV460 engine features crarybearcatchippershredder a compression ratio crarybearcatchippershredder of 8.2:1 and crarybearcatchippershredder produces 26.8 lb.ft. of torque at 2400 rpm. The 17 hp, CV490 engine, with a compression ratio of 8.4:1 has a maximum torque of 27.7 lb.ft. at 2400 rpm.Another single-cylinder engine announcement from Kohler included the addition of an 8.5 lip model to its Command Pro CS 8.5 lip horizontal shaft series. "At 250 cc, the Kolher Command PRO CS 8.5 complements our existing small-frame crarybearcatchippershredder models at 4 and 6 lip and large frame models at 10 and 12 lip," said Blum.

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