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great help

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This tool has been a real life saver for me.

Makes it a lot easier to install drywall with one person. One hand holds the drywall, and the other hand is free to put a few screws in. It only takes a few screws to hold the drywall, then the rest of the screws can be installed with a regular drill if you wish.

This tool is also handy for hanging up cabinets on the wall.

I strongly recommend. Great product!

Not carefully designed

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Let me qualify this review by saying that I'm a beginner at doing wallboard. I had difficulty using this machine, particularly in doing ceiling fastening. It jammed after 2-3 screws were driven. And this happened several times. I ended up having to do the ceiling with my cordless drill.
I did dry-run tests of the machine, and it worked fine in the down and horizontal orientation, but perhaps because I don't have a "feel" for it, it is useless to me. I kind of felt that way when I first looked at how the mechanism actually worked. The way that each new screw is indexed into position seems very unreliable and inconsistent, and not carefully worked out. Also, I could not get the clutch to properly drive the screws to the correct depth, even after many adjustments in the dry-run tests.
Given the money that this costs, I should have bought a collated screw adapter for my cordless drill. I suspect that if you've had alot of experience using this kind of machine, you know its quirks and get some sort of feel for it. But I don't have the time or inclination to do so.

decent cordless scewdriver

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I have only used this for floors so I can't review how well it works for drywall. My only complaint is the battery life. The driver had enough power but in laying a 1/2" plywood underlayment in a 9' x20' room, I discharged both batteries that were fully charged when I started.
I do like this and all the accessories that came with...the case is nice too. I just wish the batteries would last a bit longer on driving through wood.

takes lots of practice

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at first id say 1 in 10 screws cocked and jamed up in the mechanism, however thats only because i had no skills with it. now having gone through over 50 of the buckets of screws it happens maybe once in 1000 honest. and an added plus it fits ryobi batteries (14.4 only). however If anyone else on the job picks it up to tack something they usually wind up cursing at it and tossing it. and for full speed work just screwing behind the guys tacking you need 4 to 6 batteries
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BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO DRYWALL

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I have hung drywall for 35 years and had always nailed it. I had used the ds 200 both 2300 and 4000 rpm My employees and myself thought they were great except for the battery mount. When they came out with the DS 202 they had fixed the problem. I currently own 15 of these guns and they are great. We put in about 30,000 screws a week and I have only had one gun wear out. I wish they had these years ago it would have saved alot of wear and tear on the wrist and forearm.