> On Oct 7, 2018, at 10:47 , bridger@b... wrote:
> 
> On 2018-10-07 11:17, Paul Drake wrote:
>> I thought that Arrow made the quintessential hammer tracker. But I haven't
>> felted a roof in decades.
> 
> 
> It seemed to me (back in the days when that was a regular part of my work)
that crews would line up by the arrow / bostitch divide. We were an arrow crew
and i was mightily impressed by the solidity and quality of all that chromed
steel.

We used our framing contractor's Arrow hammer tacker 30 years ago for Tyvek on
my parents' house, and it was great. On the strength of that, I bought a new one
last year from the Orange Borg, and it was junk; the plunger kept falling out,
along with all the staples, which would then slide off the roof to the ground.
Words were said.

I complained about this on twitter, as one does, and Arrow sent me a replacement
for free that worked perfectly. On close comparison, the leaf spring for the
plunger catch on my first one was broken; improper heat treatment seems a likely
cause. Someday I may get around to repairing the first one, if I can make a new
spring and re-rivet it.

Obligatory oldtools content: I sharpened one of my go-to handsaws last week for
the first time in a few years, and was pleased at how much better it cut. I was
displeased that it took three tries to get the teeth set right, since I'm out of
practice.

Adam