Ramset's FrameBoss XPM taking charge

When it comes to providing value via efficiency and power, there’s few who deliver like the Ramset™ FrameBoss™ XPM.

Tradies who use powder-actuated tools have a few reasonable demands. They want a tool that fires accurately, powerfully and quickly with little or no tinkering time to ruin the rhythm. The Ramset™ FrameBoss™ XPM – sports a variety of features that set it apart from the competition, leaving a number of tradies singing its praises from atop their well-established projects. The tool packs a wallop. Four hundred joules of impact energy and power adjustment ensure it brings its A-game to any framing, fixing or formwork job.

Working in tight spaces or awkward angles? The FrameBoss™ XPM has you covered with adjustable magazine angles allowing for a fit to suit your needs. The FrameBoss™ XPM is capable of firing a single shot nail up to 100mm, but it truly stands out with its ability to fire 10 nails up to 75mm before needing a reload. This feature has proven a massive game-changer for tradies in a wide variety of applications.

NIGHT-AND-DAY DIFFERENCE

For South Sydney-based carpentry service Aussie Decking Chippie, the FrameBoss™ XPM proved a massive advantage. Operator Darren Brown had been a loyal user of Ramset’s J20 single-shot PA tool for years, but switching over to the FrameBoss™ XPM took his work to a whole new level. “It was night and day when I got it,” said Darren. “It’s been a great addition to the kit. “You virtually don’t have to cock it or reload it “We don’t put the hard fixings in until the very end because we don’t know where the joints are gonna land,” he said. “What we do is use the FrameBoss™ to tap the frame on to the pool carcass to get the height proper, and then we can screw it all off. It makes it so easy.”

like a single-shot one, and it made things a lot easier and faster on site. “The recoil on it is also great…it’s well-weighted and easy to use.” Darren’s work mainly revolves around building outdoor spaces such as decking, pergolas or outdoor kitchens, but he also does plenty of feature or perimeter fencing, often needing to secure steel postings. “What we’ll usually do is drill a steel post into the ground and do everything around it,” Darren explained.

“That’s one of the things we use the FrameBoss1″” for – it saves us from having to drill and screw everything. We shoot our frame to the steel posts. When we have steel framing in a deck at all, and we need to put timber plates in, we do the same thing.” Darren and his subbies also do a lot of work with pool framing; he said the FrameBossTM XPM made assembly a breeze when framing carcasses.

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NO MUSS, NO FUSS

Being able to fix 10 pins at a time also made a world of difference for Darren. He added while the convenience of not having to reload every shot was amazing, there was a safety aspect as well. “If you’re standing two or three metres up on a roof and you have to keep reloading the gun, other products require two hands free;’ he said. “It’s a one-handed motion to reload the FrameBoss™ XPM!’ That 400J of power the FrameBoss™ punches was another feature Darren found to be a massive difference on the site, with he and his team finding the pins have a firmer grip on the timber compared to other guns. “With the FrameBoss™ XPM, I find it has a lot more pull-down on it with the nail head compared to other models,” said Darren. While users can load three different power charges into the FrameBoss™ XPM – weak (green), medium (yellow) and strong (red) – Darren found the tool’s power dial was on the mark when it came to depth nearly every time. “I just buy the red charges for my work, it gives me the flexibility to wind down the power on it, so you don’t have to change the charges out,” he said.

“With other guns, it’s trial and error as to what depth you need. You’d be basically wasting a shot and charge. “You could be looking at 10 shots before you get the depth right. With the FrameBoss XPM it’s a simple wind of the dial and it gives you the depth straight away.” Another massive benefit Darren said the features list doesn’t tell you is the FrameBoss’ convenient packaging. It’s not something tradies always think of when getting gear, but Darren said the casing for the FrameBoss™ XPM was spacious enough to carry its fair share, while also being convenient enough to fit nicely in the cosiest of trailers.

“With the J20 it was a big box that took a lot of space in the trailer,” Darren said. “The FrameBoss XPM case is big in a sense, but it’s a very slimline box that packs into the trailer behind the nail guns. I’ve got room in the box to pack maybe 400 charges for 400 shots. “Everyone who’s used it on site has been amazed when I’ve brought it out.” Tradies who handle stacks of tasks on the day-to- day worksite need a tool up for the task like the FrameBoss™ XPM. This is certainly the case for Brad Reeves and his business: Trend Building Solutions. Brad’s five-man team operates throughout the Canberra area, undertaking a number of building jobs from new homes and renovations and even small commercial outfits. Having been a loyal FrameBoss™ user for about eight years, Brad switched over to the XPM after pesky thieves pinched his previous gun. Similar to Darren, Brad found the 10-shot rounds to be an immense timesaver. In his varied lines of work, Brad added that being able to swap between nail types with ease made framing a piece of cake. “Going from the collated pins to smaller pins with the washers on them – the versatility of that was a real bonus for us,” he said.

dozen racks of them and off he goes and it could only take 20 minutes to do a small townhouse ground floor, as opposed to a single-shot which slows everything down. “It doesn’t sound like much, but over all those units, it adds up really quickly. “We do a lot of work with multi-residential townhouses in sets of 50, 60 or 70 units, so speed was the number-one thing there.” Brad said the ability to swap smoothly between pins was a must for his line of work, which routinely swaps between materials such as timber and mild-gauge steel. “Sometimes you get a structure with steel posts and you might need to shoot a bit of timber with steel too,” he said. “Rather than pulling out screws and drills, you can shoot it with the FrameBoss™ XPM with their particular pin that’s designed to go into steel·. “That’s another added benefit – it’s less tools you need to pull out and it’s as easy as changing from one set of nails to another.”

BALANCE OF POWER

The FrameBoss TM XPM has you covered when it comes to delivering power with unparalleled convenience. It comes in the standard Ramset™ orange decal, but a limited-edition camouflage variant is also available if you’re looking to jazz up your toolbox. The Tradie readers will also have a chance to score a FrameBoss™ XPM of their own thanks to Ramset™. It’s easy to enter, simply scan the QR code below, enter your contact details and you’ll be in the draw to score a limited-edition Ramset™ FrameBoss™ XPM**.