Best Wide Crown Manual Staple Gun?

Most of the time, unless I just need a few and use the hammer stapler, I'll charge up my air pig (w/ 50' of 1/4" hose) and use the 1/2" crown air stapler. The 5gal pig is good for over 100 staples. I'll have to put that old regulator on it for next time, as it ate through some aluminum screen the last time I used it on an old pineywood door. I hate manuals. Go air!

I recently ordered some T50 staples via Amazon and only several months later did I find out that they didn't fit my hammer stapler. Way too narrow. I thought a designator like T50 really meant something. #$%^&@#&^%

-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard

both at once."

------------------------------- T-50 S/S available at West Marine, if not your local hardware.

Lew

I picked up some stainless steel T-50 staples at Home Depot the other day.

Bite the bullet and get air. So much better, and you can get smaller nailers for reasonable that do a LOT of work you used to do manually. You will also do BETTER work. Little pancake compressors can be had used for cheap if you just shop around.

Friend of mine bought a new Porter Cable pancake, and three new nailguns,

1", 2", and 3" for $135 at a hock shop.

Get one. You know you want it.

Steve

Heart surgery pending?

Gunner Asch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I need a bit more precision than a hammer stapler can provide (at least in my hands). I need to hit an area about 1/4" high by an inch or so wide.

The only wide-crown vaguely conventional staple guns I've found are a Black & Decker and a Duo-Fast. The latter got one glowing review on Amazon, and the guy compared it to a couple of other narrow crown guns, including the T50:

He claims it has much better penetration than the T50, so I think I'll give it a try.

The springs get weak in those guns as they get old. Try a new gun and see what happens.

This is cheaper, and probably works better:

I have one of these. Works fine.

Hello Doug,

If there is a 1/2" version of the Arrow Power-Shot, and if it gets reasonable reviews...

I have the 3/8" Power-Shot and for hands that aren't as strong as they once were, it is definitely an improvement. Much easier to squeeze.

(OT: they now make manual desk staplers that don't require one to hammer the thing with a fist. Similar in nature to the Power Shot. I bought one a year ago, works very well. Have to guard it to make sure that it doesn't walk away. ;-))

-- Best -- Terry

What make and model?

Thanks,

Joe Gwinn

Gunner Asch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I got the Duo-Fast, and I like it! It is easier to operate than my T50, and has a couple of additional nice features. It has a knob on top that allows you to dial in the power needed for a given job, and it has a mechanism so you can pop it open to clear a jam easily. With the power cranked all the way up, it gives significantly better penetration than the T50, with less firing effort.

The Duo-Fast staples are "chisel point", which means the tips are just ground to a wedge, parallel to the stack. I'm used to the T50 "divergent point" staples, where each staple has a sharp point cut 90 degrees from the orientation of the points on the chisel point staples. Each side is cut with the point in the opposite direction, so they tend to splay as they go in. This is supposed to give better holding power. I originally thought the divergent point ones would also have better penetration through the aluminum flashing I was working with. Arrow sells wide crown divergent point staples for Duo-Fast guns, although the box doesn't list the CS5000. I bought some to try, and they seem to work OK, although the very first one jammed (it may also have been the last of the chisel points from before). In any event, the quick jam clearing feature worked very nicely, and I didn't have a problem after that. Penetration of the two styles of staples was pretty much indistinguishable. I didn't try prying them out, so I don't know if the divergent points hold appreciably better. I doubt I could tell the difference with just a screw driver.

When stapling flashing to soft pine, the variable power feature was very nice. I could easily adjust it so that the bottom of the staple was just flat & in contact against the flashing, or crank it up so they were driven flush across the top (which stresses the aluminum, and is probably weaker, although esthetically nicer). If I hit a harder or softer piece of pine, I could tweak the power to suit.

All in all, I consider it a significant improvement over my old T50, and it has become my staple gun of choice for future projects.

Doug White

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Good to know. Thanks Karl