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Default Air Staple guns

On 2008-04-27 16:44:38 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Still looking to speed up feather edge board fixing. Finished off a play
house for my granddaughter today using a Tackwisw mains nailer with 25mm
staples to fix the F/E boards.

Two or three staples per board gave a surprisingly good fix.

My existing compressor will run a suitable staple gun so this looks like a
possible way ahead. Decided to stay with the screws for decking, so this
would be simply for F/E boards.

Any problems I haven't thought of?


Possibly, although not a fault of the stapler.

If you are going to use fairly thin feather edge board such as 9mm, you
run the risk of splitting the board and it may also be difficult to
staple in enough places for a solid fix and to hide the staple crowns.
Even with 11-12mm it's marginal sometimes.

I have a Porter Cable stapler and it works well, but I don't think that
I would use it for this application. A regular 16ga nailer would be
my preference, and 15ga for fence boards.