Customer Reviews
Light almost feels cheep 
2006-07-31
The nailer is so light it almost seems cheeply built. But features like the rear exaust and the magnet in the magizine are thoughtful and make useing the nailer much easier. Does not have enough power to drive 2 inch nails into oak.
Great Gun 
2006-03-21
I was surprised to see all the negative reviews on this gun. I've had mine for about 6 months now. I've fired atleast 10k of bostich, porter cable and craftsman nails through it. Maybe I'm just lucky, but so far Ive never had a problem. counter sinks 2" brads into oak like it's cardboard. If mine ever breaks, I'll buy another one just like it.
piston made of plastic 
2006-01-28
The piston of this nailer is made of very low-grade plastic and does not allow the hammer to draw back easily. Nailing with this tool was a problem from day one.
4 broken, weak link -- driver pin. 
2006-01-19
I pruchased the Bostitch BT200K because it is light and the price was right. I shoot about 1500 nails a week through each gun and they don't seem to last very long. After between 3 to 6 months is all I get out of one. The weak link is the driver pin. It breaks where it is attached to the piston. If they could fix this problem it would be an awesome nailer because it is so balanced and never misfires and is very consistant. I hope Bostitch updates this model soon because I love it when it works.
dissapointed 2005-12-26
I wish I didn't have so many misfires because I like the gun. I took it in to a certified warranty place to get it repaired and it still misfired after that so I went to the top! Bostitch (Canada) and sent it there to be repaired (still under warranty). In the meantime I bought a Ridgid oilless brad nailer - NICE GUN!!! The Bostitch guy replaced the whole body on my gun and then my first day using it I broke the narrow orange cast part at the rear of the gun. They were nice enough to send me a new body for free but I'll be doing the repair myself and selling the gun cheap when I've repaired it because I love my Ridgid gun and I'm tired of the Bostitch downtime and shooting so many holes in my work. I also don't beleive in having to use Bostitch nails only in a Bostitch gun. Ridgid didn't specify any nail because they don't make them.
Primary Fastener 2007-06-02
This professional nailer is like I use at work. It is my first nail gun at home because it can do from very fine small work to furniture and cabinet size fastening.
Never has worked right 2007-02-09
I've been using this for about 4 years now and am about at wits end with it. I had all kinds of misfire problems with it in the beginning, after analyzing what might be wrong, I put a metal shim in it and it seems to misfire (drive the nail 50 to 90% in leaving you reaching for the pliers hoping like heck you can extricate the offensive little nail without dinging up your finish work too much) less often. Lately I can't seem to get the gun to fire when I hook it up after it sits over night. Without the air hose attached, I need to put the gun on a piece of scrap or something, squeeze the trigger, then hook up the air hose to get it to fire, once it starts going, it usually does OK. I like the light weight and small tip size, but if it doesn't perform, what good is it. I like my Bostitch N88RH Framer and N62 15 Gauge a lot so I'm not a Anti-Bostitchite, but this BT200K-2 is not worth anything in my world.
Lemon! 2007-01-05
Picked up at Lowe's at $88, over DeWalt ($90) and Hitach ($79). All those were 2", 18GA with depth adjustment. Oil free operation and exhaust air direction is always toward to work piece (there is no deflector that you turn but exhaust port is located right at where quick connect fitting) were the merits. I minded about those four Allen screws that need to be unscrewed to clear jam but I have had only one or two jams over the past 5 or so years with my other nailers (1-1/4 brad, 1-1/2 staplers) so did not care too much. It came with 1000 brads too!
On the first day of working (I am a diy person) on an oak window casing and door molding, it misfired once in almost every 5 shots or so. It just won't drive a nail at all at the first attempt. Too picky depressor mechanism? Many will understand the situation that, working alone, you hold long moldings with one hand, while you support other side with your nailer for the first shot, but it just won't fire but not ever missing to leave a dimple. And had three jams. (yes! for the period of just 300 brads...) Did I mention that it needs four screws to be undone?
On the second day, I tried to get a hang out of it and spent 200 brads on a 2x4, just to find out when it misfires. I tried to change the way I depress this nailer and change how much force to push it... without any luck.
Gave up and returned it and came back with DeWalt D51238K. Heck! DeWalt did not even come with quick connect fitting, neither 1000 brads but I completed my work, gone through about 1000 brads. For the period of about 1000 brads, about 8 drops of oil, four strong puffs from exhaust at my face, two puffs to a floor that caused blow off of saw dust at my face, zero misfire and zero jam are all I had to deal with.
And one more thing, DeWalt left about 2/3 size of dimple of Bostitch. Although I haven't spent more than a few weeks, after getting along with two guns, my eyes tend to pleased on that bright yellow color over tainted rather ugly poop color too!
The first Bostitch tool to ever fail me 2006-10-12
I have 4 Bostitch pneumatic tools and I've never had any trouble with any of them, until now.
I agree with several other negative reviews in here:
I've used it for several weeks now and given it every chance not to fail me. This nailer has a sequential trigger and it double fires at times, mostly because of the large recoil from such a small tool I believe. Whether using long or short brads, it misfires. A lot. The gun recoils so bad you will easily mar softer woods. To the skeptics reading this review: yes, the technique, application and air pressure are all a-ok. No operator error here, I've been using pneumatic nailers since the 80's.
Minor point: the instruction book is total trash. It's intuitive enough once you look it over before just ramming a stick of nails in the mag, but there's a couple of tricks to loading the magazine they don't even hint about.
I think I'll still give this tool another chance. Maybe I just have a 'lemon'. I'm going to exchange it for a new one and try again. If the new one jambs or double fires within the first 10 shots it's going back to the store for good.
Great value 2006-08-21
I have used my first 1000 2" brads and am very pleased with it. It is relatively quiet for a nail gun. I have had 3 jams which where easily fixed. For the money it seems like a good machine. I would buy it again.
