No, I got the rotary tool from the US. I contacted the B&D India also but they said they couldn't help me (might be because I didn't buy it here in India) and should get in touch with B&D US instead.
Oh ok. The thing is spare parts shouldn't be costly as long as the product is also sold in India. Now if it is a US specific product then you might be in trouble. Still it is very possible that the same parts are employed in similar devices sold in India. If you have an authorised service centre near you then that will be the best bet to get your tool checked at. My repair cost was around 600 bucks for a tool costing 3k.
aMaAAAZING! you inspired me .....i gonna build myself one now!
Metal roofing sheets are supposed to be screwed down with special screws which are self drilling and come with a washer and not nailed. You can use a screw gun or an impact driver for that. Nail gun/Nails are only used when you want to attach a piece of wood to another piece of wood. In fact, even for that, I prefer using screws over nails but it involves a lot of work and the pieces of wood should be of a certain thickness at least.
As a general rule I also avoid hammering nails.
I haven't seen anyone use these over here in Himachal. We use roofing screws over here, whether the battens are wooden or of iron. I see the same screws being used abroad as well. Was your nail gun even able to take these nails. From what I know one has to fill cartridges in the nail gun, much like a stapler and they come as standard nails and not speciality ones like these.
As @rdst_1 points out, self-drilling screws (usually with rubber/nylon washers) are the norm here, for metal sheet roofing. At the mentioned 22mm thickness, my guess is that your roofing medium is different (non-metal) - possibly asphalt or the like. Nails are indeed used in asphalt roofing.
I have no clue. I haven't seen any personally. So I was wondering if you guys would know or use them.
Exactly. This is the type of sheet I (and very likely @rdst_1 too) was talking about.
What material is this made of? If it's not something too soft, you may actually use self-drilling screws (with larger washers, perhaps). These screws are quite convenient and not too expensive either and drill into both wood and tube/pipe metal.
Unless you have an air compressor, pneumatic tools are out of the question. If you do not absolutely need to use this specific type of wide-headed nail, you may find some models online or locally. If it were thinner sheets, staple guns may have worked fine, but 22mm is probably way too much. I don't personally use a nail gun - have only seen them in action.
Galvanized Iron. The thickness vary. Thinner ones have little uses since they easily tear. Standard ones used are 20-22mm. I bought a dozen sheet of 6ft 22mm for 2900rs. There are also thicker ones but they cost a lot.
This is the same sheet that I have used for my shed. Usually, people buy at least 65mm or 50mm ones. But even I bought only 25mm thickness ones for my shed and they are doing just fine for 5 years. I did paint them though, just to be careful. The slope of the shed ensures no water stays so chances of corrosion due to standing water are next to nil.
50mm?? What did you paint them with? I painted our old sheet but it came off easily so never bothered again lol.
For the corrugated roof they use self drilling screws, do not use nails. Nails are good for wood frame.
Sorry my bad. As adder pointed out it is 0.25mm. People usually like buying heavier sheets which are 0.5mm and 0.65mm. For my house, we have Tata Durashine pre painted 0.65mm sheets which come in a different profile as the blue one in the above posts.
Self drilling screws cut down on labour times and is clearly faster. With the L screw you need to drill a hole using a drill bit and if the frame is a square or rectangular tube then the hole needs to come out of the other end and the L screw needs to be inserted by one person from below and the other person on the top will have to tighten the nut it and my guess is that you will chew up atleast couple of drill bits with cutting fluid like machine oil or even more without oil.
Guess this explains a lot. When you said 22mm, I really thought you were using some form of tar/asphalt based thick sheeting.
