I’m about to get my final electrical inspection, and assuming it passes, I’ll be ready to start insulating.
I’ve got rolls and rolls and roills of compressed R-13 batts to install. I’ve done a quick calculation on the number of Swingline staples I’ll need to shoot…and the number is too big to print out here. I fear for my hand muscles.
Anyone have any suggestions for the best electric or pneumatic stapler to use for this purpose?
thanks
Bruce
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evey insulation company around here just uses that slammen stick gun.
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Staple sick gun is the only way I've ever done it. Pro insulaters I've seen too. You must be thinking of using a squeeze type stapler. My hand is throbbing just thinking about that one. As far as I know, there's no pneumatic type of gun that makes sense for insulating but someone will probably jump in here and educate me/ us. Plus the swing type drops nicely into your hammer holster. Spray the tip occassionally with a little WD-40 and your down time clearing jambs will disappear. Good luck JoeG
Horror frieght in Lex. Ky. has an air powered stapler that shoots Arrow staples...29.00..or so. Was gonna get for screens and such..but forgot.
ya get what ya pay for, but it can't be all that bad..
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Have an electric Arrow and it works great on screens, poly sheeting , and the rare upholstry job but not too practical for the glass insulation.
The stick swing slammer is the only way to go with insulation. Get the light one to make it even easier, it's the one the insulaters use, I think it's an Arrow and is a bright green and even comes with a leather holster. Use 1/4" staples and grab the slapper near the middle so there's not so much force absourbed by your wrist and you can go much faster. They don't take much to make the staple stick and you don't have to set the staple flush providing you are stapling just inside the face of the framing. These tools along with encapsulated insulation have made a dreadful job much more tolerable.
I just threw two slammers off my roof out of frustration yesterday.
One old one that jammed frequently and the new one with the yellowish orange handle. I tried opening the new one for half an hour.what a waste of my time.
They now make em so tightly wrapped in that orange casing along with seriously heavy duty rivets so as you can't open it anymore to fix jams.
I can't stand that company Arrow anymore.
Does anyone make one that keeps working????
BE flinging staple guns off the roof.
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Try Duofast?
bostich invented the slammer I think..theyre great.
find some young punker and ask what he stapled his tongue to his lip with, he'll know
be pierced
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HAve I used the word "hate" lately.......lol.
I HATE Arrow guns.
HATE HATE HATE HATE OMMMMMMMMMM
BE in a hate mode for Arrow rip off staple slammers.
They were "never any good" as far as lasting.
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Darcey is right. Duofast is another good one...
Be an Arrow hater.... I'll help...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Be an Arrow hater
Did I say that??? ut oh.
heyyyyyyy if I did I din't mean anything by it.I swear on Pocohontis's ........ : )
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if I had a lake, I would throw the arrow electric in too. Its in the worst tool ever catagory
Johnny, is it yellow?
I had 2 of those things.
Took the first one back, I thought it was broken.
It wasn't, second one was just as bad. Gave it away, hope he doesn't remember where he got it.
Suitable for (maybe) stapling a note to a watermelon.
I have a small Senco wire stapler, works good. And a SEARS half inch wire stapler that works great.
Something decent from Sears!!
And Makita makes a real nice 9.6V stapler, kinda pricey though.
This could be a good excuse to buy one though......
Joe H
I myself have thrown out hmmmmm, maybe five in total frustration. One is at the bottom of the Hudson River about 150' out from a seawall along with my old Stanley 20 oz framer...it was a bad day. Arrow was bad, Swingline was bad bad, Duofast was the worse, especially since it cost so much. I have the slammer by Bostitch and so far, it's ok. It jams up, but does unjam quickly and I keep it well oiled. I had the little one I talked about for insulating and it was great for about a year but then the spring gave. I dunno, I just figure they are a tool that are intricate & delicate and just don't last that long. I take care of my tools too...except on bad days.
Please stay away from all tools other than yur own....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
I'm actually very kind to my tools. I fling them into the lake every third Tuesday and only if I'm alone or with somebody.
Bostich makes a really good one....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
lot's of slammers over the years..
the ones the insulators use here is the
BOSTICH H 30
thin wire staple..Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
told y'all..I'm sure they invented it.
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Stay away from the cheapie electric staplers. It never sets the staples home unless you push like the dickens on it. Bammers (swing type staplers) are great and never get tired. 95% of the time you can use it until you get in a tight interior area. Closets or peaks of houses etc. You can't swing them there.
There isn't one tool to do the job. but the swing type and the traditional stapler are 'subfloor drop' tested to last longer than you will.
but the swing type and the traditional stapler are 'subfloor drop' tested to last longer than you will.
Booch,
Exactly how long you been in construction bro? Just curious.
Dropping something especially those crappy slammers doesn't hold water to the actual use.
After all I've thrown em off my roof time and time again after simply using them the way they're supposed to be used..its futile becomes futile...
Be in serious dislike.......yada yada yada
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Dude, they gots ta make a thumb guard for those bastids..any of them..if I had a nickle for every thumb bash insulating..I could..
I could...like buy a new thumb!..
Be purplethumbed
( found my old bostich today..want it?..can't insulate logs)
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( found my old bostich today..want it?..can't insulate logs)
SPHERE,
Sure bring it by and I'll pay you in beer.
Hey, I'm sure you can use it fer sumpin'.
Be tacked
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Thanks for replies
Think I'll give the bammers a try. I borrowed one to tack on my 15 pound felt on exterior sheathing...always seemed to work...never thought of it for insulation.
But I also agree with watching the other hand....came real close to embedding a 5/16 staple in the back of my left hand or thumb...and I don't think it would have felt very good!
Why hasn't PC or another such company come up with a pneumatic staple shooter. I used their quarter round 1 1/4 inch staple shooter to put up 28 squares of shingles, and it worked perfectly!
Hmmmmm
Bruce
Senco has one... It's great... It's better than great.. 1/4 to 9/16"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Bostitch just came out with a new cap stapler model SB150SLBC-1. It uses a staple and a 1 in. plastic cap that will hold down your insulation. It a neat tool, if you call a bostitch dealer they should have or get for you in a couple of days. good luck
Heh...
That new felt nailer I got would work quite nicely :)
Every Arrow stapler i ever had for some reason only had 5 staples in it when i got up on the scaffold. And then they came out sideways!