How Exactly Does this Old Hilti Fastener Work?
You’re close. Actually, this old thing works the same way HILTIs still work. A HILTI gun uses a .22 caliber blank as the energy source. Blanks are sized according to what you will be doing. There are short ones for firing nails into steel studs, and larger ones for firing nails into concrete. The other thing you need is HILTI nails. They’re designed to stay straight under the kind of impact they’ll see, and they have a special finned rubber washer that aligns them in the gun. You can find the loads and nails at many building supply places including Home Depot.
