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Anyone seen a brad push/nail driver mechanism?

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Adrian Wilson

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Has anyone seen a mechanism for sale where you could turn your own handle? They are not expensive, most of them, and I could harvest the mechanism out of one, or the one I have, if had to. Just seems like you should be able to buy them, but I'm having no luck except this one and not what I want

This is what I am talking about; used to start and drive a small brad. Sometimes called a rampin.
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This is a Crown version; Amazon wants $67 Canadian for it.
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Handles have been made for centuries without a mechanism. For some reason I can’t open your attachments, so I don’t have any idea what a “mechanism” is.
 
You can get that one on Amazon for $30. I guess I should have said "I" could get one, sorry.
 
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Mark that is an English tool sold by Canadians and I don't think tariffs have anything to do with that one. But I whole heartedly agree about tariffs. But then it is Amazon?
 
Bill Blasic said:
Mark that is an English tool sold by Canadians and I don't think tariffs have anything to do with that one. But I whole heartedly agree about tariffs. But then it is Amazon?
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There has been a ripple effect though; all of a sudden the Canadian border people are collecting tariffs they never used to bother with (it seems to me). Definitely on anything coming in from the US, but from other countries also, and now the de minimus provisions are gone. I used to buy vintage tools pretty regularly from the US via a weekly Facebook auction group. I can't afford it now, between fees, exchange, shipping, the border etc., and it seems like the other Canadians on that site are the same. The last two tools I bought I got hit with huge brokerage fees. I don't buy anything from the US now if I can possibly avoid it.
 
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