BOLTR: Best Stapler Gun? | Milwaukee Crown Stapler

[@johngeannaris2470]

That thought, the one at the very end there. I know that thought. And that's how someone is going to end up with a staple in the thigh.

[@deadaccount6135]

🤣🤣🤣 so true!

[@worldofzap]

[Props man tries to attach antlers to a mouse] Props man : I can't get the antlers glued to this little guy. We tried Crazy Glue, but it don't work. Frank Cross : Did you try staples?

[@jeremydewolfe8026]

I see a future vijeo.

[@ionstorm66]

This is how the next model gets another sensor to make you let go of the trigger to load staples lol

[@personious_k]

Cable ties...always cable ties.

[@rallywagon261]

How is Arrow still selling these? I thought they were just passed on from father to son upon achieving manhood all the way back from the time of antiquity?

[@iunnox666]

I bought one a little while ago, I think they're only on the shelves to let you know they're still in business. Utter garbage, wouldnt even fire 5 staples before jamming.

[@drscopeify]

I put on roof felt with it no issues, I think you got a lemon :)

[@striker8paints]

I have 3 generations worth of Arrow staplers. Mine from the 90's, my father's from the 70's, and my grandfather's last one from the 50's. They don't get passed on untill after you needed one yourself and manned up and bought one, but eventually a man gets backups and ones to keep alternately loaded from the earlier generations.

[@DirtbagDIY]

I've inherited two that I've been using for the past 15 years and never thought about buying a new one... I think you've got a point here. Probably just the old ones that will last three lifetimes.

[@LN997-i8x]

They eventually get run over by a truck or get left on top of a building and get lost.

[@hammondo7]

"I stand corrected" said the man in the orthopaedic shoes.

[@LordBarrington]

"I've got an idea" is a phrase often accompanied by "hold my beer" and then the noise of sirens

[@PatriotsFan7O]

Ambulance is too expensive for those of us in the U. S. and A. What other reason to have our mothers on speed dial?

[@morofry]

I believe he refers to the sirens whose sweet lullaby soothes the ears of those whose beer is waiting to be drank not by proxy of the cup holder.

[@ChuckRage]

Also "watch this" and "what's the worst that could happen"

[@dadillen5902]

You forgot the screaming obscene words that proceeds the call for help.

[@rubiconnn]

"It depends". There was several layers to that joke. Several absorbent layers.

[@you_dont_know_me6583]

The millfucky stapler

[@sourbrothers73]

What's it like eatin out grandma?

[@Fireholder1]

@@sourbrothers73 Ever open a grilled-cheese sandwich?

[@morofry]

And yet, the jokes prevail...

[@truegeekified]

This is a shitty joke

[@kymcopyriot9776]

I ain’t touching one of those things. If the wife ever found it, everything outside the house would be covered in tinkly winkly Christmas lights in 30 minutes flat.

[@PirateDest]

kym copyriot until it’s firing too hard and it cuts right through the wires.... sparky sparky next thing you know that staple is a fuse 😂😂😂

[@kymcopyriot9776]

@@PirateDest youre way too late, that's already happened many times. Lucky they are just el cheapo low voltage solar tinkly winkly lights...

[@christopher_hawn]

Too funny, but too true as well. Thanks for the chuckle.

[@matthewmcbeth4099]

That would be my mother in a nutshell.

[@douglascampbell9809]

I worked in a furniture factory. I've fired damn near a million staples while I was there. You couldn't get me to touch either one of these things. You can't beat a pneumatic staple gun. It's not portable but I have seen them run pallet loads of staples with little to no problems. The BeA staplers were the best then Senco followed by Bostitch I used in the years I worked there. Side note we even had one that was fully automatic. It would put your tiny box of staples into the pallet in a minute or two. A stick would take about 25 seconds.

[@BurpleRX7]

Different needs, great in a static position but if your sheeting up a new build with no power or air, or working up on a roof you ain’t dragging no compressor around, They have a use for sure, but yeah in a factory like the furniture or packaging stuff windy staples all the way

[@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ]

I do some work for a sofa manufacturer and the workers there fire those pneumatic staplers like machine guns. I reckon they probably fire around ten staples per second at times.

[@jonanderson5137]

I developed quite a trigger finger on a Bostitch stapler. The only slow part was getting the cardboard aligned.

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

The Rx7 roadie BURPLE RX7 i do alarm and remote counters, do fine with the manual Arrow. Plus is cheaper.

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

I've seen some of the furniture you made.

[@1968charger666]

Safety mechanisms? Ya mean spare parts?

[@MrGabsoriano]

This is my safety.☝️

[@fnord5]

I see a full auto eye finding staple gun in the near future.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Ooooh now that's a good idear!

[@bdg77]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 adding a selective fire switch looks to be easy!

[@kyledombrowski7051]

@@bdg77 better keep OSHA's ATF branch off the trail

[@smoogles]

It's too bad we're limited to 5 staples per magazine in Canaderp

[@Luke-sw5gz]

*alphabet boys have entered the chat

[@Fireship1]

I just bought a pneumatic one. You don’t know how bad arthritic fingers can feel until the wife hands you a multiple kitchen chair upholstery job. That old Arrow is like torture when you fire a few hundred staples.

[@thehegemon1024]

My father and I put up a trellis for my mother that was going to require a couple hundred staples, so I bought him the pneumatic stapler. He thought jt was super easy to use by handing it to me and grabbing a beer.

[@drkn9t]

Thats why I bought a pnuematic one. Arthritic hands make you really think about your choices.

[@delciotto]

these type of tools could probally help people not develop problems that make these tools required in the first place.

[@lightbulbjim]

Works well but carrying a compressor around in your back pocket gets old.

[@renof2505]

I generally try not to use my fingers or forearm, if you are pushing against something solid just push down on it as far back on the handle as you can and it makes it a lot easier. Does not work for sticking targets to cardboard though. Course how else are you going to tighten up the stranger?

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

My dad had a corded stapler in the early 2000s and I loved that thing because it would launch staples pretty far once you bypassed the safety

[@georgemcmillan9172]

Working in the cabinet industry, I use pneumatic staplers and nailers with the "safeties" removed. I can hit a target over 50 feet away with some decent acuracy!

[@MesaAufenhand]

OSHA wants to know your location

[@7171schocker]

@@MesaAufenhand hope they have some staple resistant armor

[@halnywiatr]

@ 13:25 Toonies? Hey look at you Big Spender. The idea is for them to want to dance, not follow you home.

[@Fireholder1]

@@Hoaxer51 He explained quite astutely why he noped out of that one, in my opinion.

[@kendavis8046]

LOL - I have a manual stapler, but also two airguns that shoot staples. One is wide crown, the other is narrow crown, and the narrow crown doubles as a brad nailer. Prosumer tip: If your better three-quarters ever asks you to replace the upholstery on the dining room chairs, you are going to want a pneumatic tool! That, and wiping up "dribbles" will get you to damn near 40 years of marital bliss, in my experience.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Droppin' pearls here Ken. Pearls.

[@kendavis8046]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 ISWYDT - but occasionally, I have dropped a few "bills" and bought her actual pearls. But way back in the day . . .

[@nottelling6598]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 And dribbles, but the man who doesn't do that is either a liar or blind. As our forefather's have spoken since the dawn of time, "I don't see anything."

[@kendavis8046]

@@nottelling6598 One of the rules I actually passed on to my son. If you dribble, get a little bit of toilet paper and clean it up. AND then put the seat down (this is not worth arguing over. Happy wife is a happy life.)

[@kendavis8046]

@@bryanwinsor9392 Nope. I remember being a kid and moving back from the "target" and still hitting it. I'll pee outside before I resort to the setter option. But if you are keeping the wife happy, your methods aren't mine, but that is the main aim in life!

[@rockhumper8843]

Surprised you didn’t completely disassemble the reduction gear 🥺...😳 ....you must actually like this tool?🤷🏻

[@meatsmell8639]

That and he's taken apart many planetary gears on the channel, if you've seen one, you've basically seen them all ya know?

[@MetalAsFork]

@@meatsmell8639 I mean I know what they look like, but I still like hearing about sintered metal gears and SCHMOO! Nice fawkin' name btw there bud. Bolth of ya's. There's a rendering plant around the way, and apparently a northern breeze this eventide. So I am indeed getting some permutation of a foul goddamn MEAT SMELL, and it ain't pleasant. Would actually rather hump a rock.

[@Sherwin657]

i use my left hand for the manual stapler to try to even my forearms out a bit

[@92xl]

you must have a lot of stapling to do!

[@spiv_gennedy]

Makes it feel like someone else stapling...

[@extrastuff9463]

For optimal stapling I'd suggest to get 4 of them along with some spare batteries and make every day "bring your kid to work" day. Use two at the same time while your kid reloads the ones you're not using, you'll be the fastest stapler at the job until some jerk comes up with an even faster higher capacity pneumatic one.

[@Prairiedrifter1]

Boy the tattoos you got from your daughter last longer than teenage relationships

[@1puppetbike]

If you don't bathe much those tattoos can last forever

[@KPearce57]

If your doing more than 4 get the battery stapler, I've done millions of them with the old style, now I have nerve damage no felling in the hands, can't squeeze a medium sized paper clip with my right hand .

[@Sherwin657]

about pressing the switch everytime. can you hold the trigger down and use the hall effect sensor to trigger a projectile? edit: nevermind, i need to save my question till the end of class

[@generaldisarray]

It's a good point though. It's exactly how roofers/builders spit nails into roof shingles, felt membrane, siding and the like so fast, just keep the trigger pulled and use the safety pin on the front to trigger the mechanism...

[@benjaminreevie7601]

I may have just asked pretty well the same thing...whoops

[@beb38138]

I was literally typing that I see conformal coating on the pcb, when he mentioned it lol 😝

[@mrfrenzy.]

@@generaldisarray This is not allowed anymore, for good reason.

[@brettwalkom948]

He was doing that in the video mate

[@MichaelDavis-zf6nt]

Man sees the pallet: "That damn tweaker got a hold of that staple gun again!"

[@stevej6824]

It’s true they never really do wear out. My Arrow stapler was my grandpa’s along with a bunch of other tools and he passed away in 1982 Old Skool tools were built to last a lifetime, or two.

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Correct~ I have 2 Arrows' a T-25 and a T-75 that I used on the job for 40 yrs. and now have them at home since 2001 and use them all the time and still going and so am I at 74~!! If a man can't squeez a stapler it's time to check out~!!!!

[@mgodlasky]

I think rust might be the only thing can actual kill an Arrow stapler, and we'll of the tools rusty that's your fault not the manufacturer. Unless your buying those pre-rusted tools that the Chinese Cheesecake Factory sends over here via sampan.

[@WeighedWilson]

"That gives me an idea": how every episode of Rescue 911 should start! 17:26

[@YR7A]

honestly I might get one of these. instead of squeezing that damn handle every time while holding it above your head when you're putting up an entire attic's worth of fiberglass insulation, it'd be a hell of a lot simpler just to pull the trigger. this goes for stapling down flooring underlay as well.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

For a professional, especially one who already has the big red's batteries, its not a bad idea. Just keep a manual on hand as a back up or for the apprentice.

[@mephInc]

Hammer stapler.

[@YR7A]

@@mephInc tried, failed. sometimes you just don't have that kind of area to swing it.

[@mephInc]

@@YR7A Fair point

[@Blitzkriken]

Been there. I have one of these, and I think you're gonna love it. Goes pretty far on a 2ah battery. No problems driving into 40yr old southern yellow pine.

[@northupguy]

There's the hammer tacker, too.

[@stevej6824]

Mike Mitchell proper name is a hammer tacker.

[@stevej6824]

I’ve got a bunch of old tools that used to belong to my grandpa including an ARROW Hammer Tacker. He’s been gone since 1982 Old tools were built to last a lifetime, or two.

[@biguprochester]

But you can’t do low voltage wire with a hammer tacker

[@pressf4autozone598]

Whacker-tackers are probably considered a weapon in canadia

[@backwoodsnomad1387]

Yes. The ol whacker-tacker.

[@rand0mBITCH69]

Been watching your videos for years now. Never gets old. By far the best on KZbin

[@DPD1122]

Those old Arrows do wear out.... Detroit Police range. You think 200lb shop gorillas are tough on tools, try giving things to 200lb dumb door knockers. 😄

[@zeroibis]

Yep, actually replaced mine with the dewalt "carbon fiber" one. Still cheaper than electric but wow it was way easier to drive and the weight was great becuase I was stapling over my head for hours.

[@tubeonline629]

Tell them boys at the gun range to get a can of 3M spray adhesive, that works so much better for paper targets, and you can put new target right on top of the old ones then when done just peel them off all at same time.

[@jttech44]

@@tubeonline629 Plus it smells nice too

[@funkycat9629]

Used to have an old arrow, you Can drive over them and they stil work or used to work when i drove my tank over it

[@neathway382]

Those old Arrow staplers are a lifetime tool. Dad's got one of them that I can remember trying to use, with all my weight and both hands, at ten years old. He still has it. Still uses it. I'm 45 now.

[@grumpycat_1]

I love mine.. "killer app" of a tool. The time and energy the Milwaukee saves, means when I wear it out I will happily buy another one.. It is a hands down no brainier... at 120$ its "cheap" from a labor/time saving perspective.

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Milwaukee has put the spell on all Craftsmen for sure~!!!

[@SeagullWaterPurifier]

Milwaukee wins yet again just replacing my 12v multi tool after 5 years of dust and trade torture, all my other 12v is still kicking and only recently replaced some batteries that’s bloody amazing looks like I’ll add one of these to our kits too

[@jeremiahsanders1103]

I've been using this in my mobile upholstery business for over a year now and works amazing! super reliable and has cut my job time in half. worth its weight in gold.

[@RichardNixion357]

That idea at the end. That's how you get your *daggs* shot by fed bois.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

We don't have feds, we have Royal Canadians Mounted. They don't shoot daggs, it's not effective. They engage a more passive aggressive policy: encumber you with byzantine paperwork. It's our right as subjects to roll over and die; peacefully.

[@RichardNixion357]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 For the Queen Ma'am Tredoux!

[@kf4ozb]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 Sounds like Vogons to me... Don't forget your towel!

[@HoosierRallyMaster]

I love how, in the closing seconds, he sets the stage for a sequel!

[@rustdustandnuts]

A safety on a staple launcher!? Damn government always ruin the fun.

[@Novers]

The safety enables the hold button quick fire

[@TheJttv]

No that would be stupid lawsuits

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

The trigger is kind of a safety and the safety is really a trigger.

[@PeaceLoveAndGuns]

We need to see how far they shoot across the room and high speed photography of the projectiles in flight. You know you want to override that safety mechanism, partner.

[@robvenom1058]

Shocked he didn't override it

[@Fofiddly]

I was hoping for the factory delete, I need to see how accurate it is lol

[@KeepOnJeepinOn]

I'm surprised the People's Republic of Canada let you get one of those. Usually they don't like the fully semi automatic version of tools

[@themightyparthos]

They still are not legal in the people's republik of Kalifornia, except for military and police use...

[@josephdanmathis1876]

I watched your video and continued on through my KZbin feed. A couple videos later, I noticed that my mood had changed. I was having a very bad month. The kind that makes you think too much. Laughter is the best medicine, and watching you put that thing together wrong multiple times without bitchwhipping it against a wall, lol. I wanted to come back and thank you. Really, I mean it, thank you my guy. You affect a lot of people in a good way. I'd say your being is fully Justified at this point.

[@SuperAWaC]

the secret of stapling thousands of times with a manual stapler without clapping out your tendons (though no matter what you do you'll still end up with a grip that can crimp black iron pipes) is not to squeeze with your hand as much as you use your arm to push your palm into it. that's the difference between a survivor and someone who's gonna end up with RSI also, why not throw the toonies at 'em. make it hail!

[@ferrumignis]

Sadly you can only do that if you are stapling something which is flat and substantial enough to take the force of pushing.

[@SuperAWaC]

@@ferrumignis if it's not substantial enough for this technique, it's not substantial enough to take such a stapling to begin with.

[@ferrumignis]

@@SuperAWaC Not true. Try stapling the cover onto a motorcycle seat with a curved plastic base (how they are constructed from new). It's a massive pain in the wrist with a conventional stapler. Also it's quite common in furniture for coverings to be stapled to quite a narrow frame so you can only rest the front of the stapler on the work piece.

[@Djslackx]

Crapsman makes (or made) a reversed manual stapler, think it's called the Power Shot. The squeezy bit and the pokey bit are on the same end so that one can just press it onto the workpiece and fasten away. A little smarter design, I think.

[@JimBryson1]

I have two of the Arrow T50 staplers in the "runned over" state that I've found laying in the road on bike rides. Both still work like a charm.

[@fiendeng]

-always wants to find a fault with milfukee -continues to fall in love with the red 😆😆

[@themightyparthos]

God damn the lovely red wallet sucking bastards!

[@Waterdust2000]

Careful boys.. thats how Peg captured Al Bundy..

[@loganperry1346]

I flip houses, and in my case at least, the perfect compromise is the staple hammers, especially the ones Stanley make. essential craftsman did a video on them and he was completely right in calling it an elegant tool, compleetly battery free, but you can use one all day every day with very little strain

[@Spectt84]

While it's open, you should 'hot glue' the "wall sensor" in. That way you can shoot staples around the shop... That's 1/2 the reason of having a staple gun!

[@pastagandalf]

What do you mean by only half? What else would you have one for?

[@noname2490]

I would definitely get an electric stapler if I needed to drive a lot of them. Always informative and fun.

[@rotaryenginepete]

Applying Dewilt logic, your re-ass-embly of that there stabler now qualifies it for a shiny sticker that says Made In Canada with Global Materials.

[@avihsnis]

Never seen such a sticker here in the US, but that is hilarious.

[@GinosGarageUSA]

Really its a choice between carpel tunnel or not.. and believe me I like the old school Arrow staple gun, my dad grew up across the street from the Arrow staple factory in Saddle Brook, NJ.. so we had several of those old arrow staple guns.. and they still chooch.. Yea there is a definite devious teaser at the end of that video..

[@sherwoac]

you missed the opportunity to draw a willy in staples :

[@martinwiggins6548]

I've had one of these for about a year now, it's seen plenty of use and it's still working well. I prefer a pneumatic one, but for odd jobs / when I can't make too much noise / when I'm working on site this thing is great. Trigger worried me too initially, but so far, it's still playing nicely.

[@SweatyHanes]

Well damn I actually got a notification for your video after damn near a year.

[@These_Old_Engines]

I bought a pneumatic stapler a few years ago.... that thing changed my mind on the old tank arrow stapler I had used since the first time I pinched myself with it in my Dads shop.

[@tossedsalad1532]

"Why would you ever need a tool with a battery what you can do manually?" Said no woman ever.

[@juangonzalez9848]

Yeah I’ve seen staplers wear out. Convention center I work for uses staples to hold the vinyl top and colored skirting onto the wooden tables. 4-6 guys working an 8 hour shift to get all the tables done and setup. Every year we have a dead stapler box with 20+ worn out manual staplers in it. The worst part for them is after the even they have to pull all the staples out. Real crappy work, but before covid hit it was at least stable.

[@skollfactor6499]

Being in Grande Prairie I can confirm that this gun will be modified to shoot coins at strippers

[@vernonbear]

Used Milwaukee, Arrow and a few pneumatic staplers when I used to do leather interior trimming on cars, the pneumatic won hands down for punching power, the Milwaukee was a decent tool to have in the van if we were installing out at a client’s house, the Arrow was the reliable tool we had for when the compressor was being a finicky bugger. The Milwaukee was good for inaccessible little places that you couldn’t press too hard (thus making the Arrow a tricky one to use) and a hose attachment made it tricky to manoeuvre the pneumatic stapler. We were lucky to have bosses who equipped us with decent kit and who appreciated that battering us physically was not the way to earn our respect!

[@Sizukun1]

Milwaukee seems to be making some quality stuff at reasonable prices. Their Fuel line seems to do better than the average consumer junk, and now their random shit seems to work good too.

[@CutTimeBrony]

Hey for those who havnt discovered them, forward action staplers are the best manual option. Instead of the hinge being on the front of the handle its on the back so you can just lean on it pushing the stapler to the wood and the staple into it at the same time, no more squeezing.

[@bjoe385]

One day AvE will ♥️ one of my comments.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Use it wisely; thems things ain't cheap.

[@bjoe385]

AvE thanks man.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

@Graham Stewart The all-seeing team of un-paid interns practically pays for itself!

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

I know the feeling. When senpai finally recognize me, I took a damn screenshot of it! lmao I'm sure he gives 'em out while on the shitter, so it warmed my heart to know a chortle echoed out in the throne room. :P

[@2YLITE22]

Hands down, one of your best reviews... BRAVO SIR!

[@Novers]

The best part is the manual staplers are so cheap you can leave it in the truck if the tool breaks on you

[@bloodgain]

That's the ticket. Always have a cheap manual backup!

[@djlev2980]

I literally just bought one yesterday to help a buddy hang insulation in his house. And it also rapid fires. You don’t need to pull the trigger each time. Just hold that trigger in and go to town

[@fryreartechnology7611]

I’m a huge fan of my air powered guns like that but the compressor is so f’ing loud I can’t work late in the night on projects at home and a battery would be nice.

[@SeagullWaterPurifier]

Yeah flag the compressed air - the batteria type is the way to go less noise, no hose awesome

[@crackberrycampbell]

We used that stapler for firing up aluminum plates for in floor heat, the guys never had one jam and it punched through that aluminum no problem. I would highly recommend that stapler.

[@MF175mp]

Everyone says now "covid" after coughing instead of "gesundheit"

[@stephenphillips8692]

As you wear out, you learn to appreciate technology. When the Arrow gun came out, you know there was some old codger(like us) that said, "What's wrong with your hammer and bag of staples, it'll never wear out" lol

[@HighSpeedChase762]

Not even on notification squad and I’m here within 2 minutes. Thanks, Chris!

[@bigfootpnw5336]

👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Gold ole fashioned friends helping friends!!

[@shakeNbakestudios]

Ive reupholster about 500 jet ski seats over the years. Using this m12 gun was a game changer and made life so much easier.

[@garyburchett9060]

The tattoo is starting to fade. Need to get the little " chickadee " to freshen that up for ya.

[@TheBeavadelic]

Ahhhh forgot about the forearm tatt! Lol was about to comment who drew on his arm lol

[@MrGabsoriano]

You should see what they did to his face. Falling asleep on the couch sucks.

[@NWGR]

I have that stapler and love it. I'd love it even more if milwaukee made a version for insulated cable staples.

[@MrCoalcracker79]

Every time either my wife or I cough or sneeze the other one says "Covid" 8:55. It's kind of a STAPLE in our household now.

[@grange172]

I sneezed the other day and heard my 4 year old in the next room holler GOT THE RONA!!

[@christophersines8238]

Sure I’m not the first, but you can disable the safety. That battery makes the range way better than the corded jobs my bro’s used to have staple fights with. Up until my dad stepped on one bare foot. That was the end, in general. Things got fuzzy for awhile after that.

[@Yourname942]

8:54 You actually can get it more than once

[@chrissysunshine]

If you want a suggestion for boltr, I recommend the pancake compressor from porter cable. I've had 4 of those terrible excuse for breakfast food compressors and all of them leak like a civ. I should mention I've only got 3 now. Last ones pressure regulator failed and wouldn't stop pumping until the emergency relief popped

[@carlholm7867]

The power tool market is getting bloated I guess. Makita has a battery powered wheelbarrow now.

[@ozo1010]

I own this tool , we use it to fasten plastc lattice panels to azek , the amount of effortless work you can do vs using a manual stapler, there is no contest, great tool !

[@mephInc]

Electric staple gun: When an enginerd attempts to reinvent a lever....

[@grumpycat_1]

Use it, its a better mousetrap. This thing has saved me many many hours.

[@grumpycat_1]

@Graham Stewart Interesting how after age 40 I started to care about that stuff... I can officially say I am no longer bullet proof and making a grunting sound is now mandatory when standing up. I'd type more here but my wrists hurt ... you know.. b/c its cooler today and its raining...

[@1uzfe]

Engineers like simple stuff. This smells like an executive order to make one.

[@RustyCarnahan]

Worn out, no, but grandpa had one that the spring broke in. But some miracle, he found replacement parts and rebuilt it. Still got it hanging in the shed.

[@karldavidson9767]

Please don’t use a Makita to operate on a Milwaukee, bad mojo mixing sushi with chow mein

[@raamonkhan4909]

I replaced my '97 Mitsubishi Montero starter with an original Toyota starter from JayAy-Pan . . . . now she starts right up, first turn every time . . .for the past 20 years.

[@DrFiero]

I’ve got one of these, and a fleet of the manual whackers of various forms. When I moved past the 5 decade mark a number of years ago, just the act of squeezing those handles became painful. When I had to put up a bunch of house wrap, then to make it worse, about 1100sq ft of overhead vapour barrier (alone!)... this milwhacky was a life saver. Well, a hand and arm saver. Btw, if you just pull and hold the trigger you can bump fire it. Less wear and tear.

[@online_now6834]

if young bucks use the electric when younger then they may be able to wipe their ass when they are 70 years old...

[@JJEMcManus]

I use a Stanley sharpshooter myself what operates from the angry pixies coming directly from the wall socket. No safety interlock, no batts to run dry when chasing down indolent coworkers sneaking a smoke when they should be hanging drywall. You’re only limited by the length of your extension cord, which is true for most of us.

[@5ivearrows]

I have a product I make that involves a lot of stapling. Was no time at all before my wrist and forearm made it clear to me that I required a modern electrical device for this purpose. No regerts.

[@MarcReeveNewson]

I used one of these to staple in aluminum heat distribution plates for some in-floor heating and *really* liked it. I'll probably get one of my own some day. That being said, for house wrap and vapour barrier a hammer tacker works great 95% of the time (better perhaps because you've got a longer reach) . I went through ~17000 staples for an art project a while back. That's when it would have really helped.

[@flightgamer7849]

Whenever there is a man vs machine contest I always think back on the great book John Henry from my childhood. Then again, I am old.

[@bashkillswitch]

The two pins in the gearbox attachment remind me of the old b&d 3.6v nicad electric screwdriver we had for working on our machines at the laundromat my family owned when I was a kid. It was supposed to.be this whole tool system that never materialized that supposed to be able to be swapped by pushing those two pins out and attaching a different gearbox output

[@dualityk]

I've seen microswitches of that general size and construction still going at a million cycles, switching an amp at 120v. They're a lot more stout than they look.

[@Kanesgarage]

I have one of these m12 staplers. Excellent tool! Never had a single issue with it

[@scottmarshall6766]

You can tell a T50 veteran - it's the guy that can hit someone in the nose at 15 feet. When they complain "that almost hit me in the eye", you know where the next one goes.... (no I don't shoot twice unless they have their safety marglasses on...) For me it was years of competitive shooting, walking down to post targets, you find that the other guys doing the same are the best targets. We emptied many sticks of ceiltile Arrows walk downrange and back, bummer when you get down there and you got 1 left. I quickly learned to tape an endmill tube with an extra stick on the stapler. Too bad they didn't have these years ago, I often thought of converting a 120v solenoid version to capacitive discharge, but alas that was before cheap chinese smps angry pixie booster modules too. Thanks for the deep dive on the Milwaukee machine. A bit overdone me thinks.

[@joeboatwrench9315]

I have NEVER heard you give this positive of a review. Ever. Sounds like love. It will be gone soon.

[@johnpossum556]

We would wear out those old manual staplers putting together wooden quart containers before plastic ones came along. Like 20-30 years ago I bought an air stapler from HF for like $15 and it's been one of the best purchases I've made through them. Paid for itself on the first upholstery job I did. It's part of what convinced me to buy an air brad nailer the next time I saw them go on sale. Now you need to hogtie that trigger down like the wild west gunfighters used to do. I know we are all thinking that.

[@nickfish03]

I actually papered my roof with this last weekend. Maybe slightly slower than a hammer tacker, but worked a treat, and I already had it. Cheers

[@floobertuber]

I have the cRyobi P317 stapler, also made by TTI, which seems to be rather similar in construction. Some known differences... The P317 is in Ryobi's 18V line, not a 12V line like Milwaukee's. That is kind of an esoteric difference though, and I'm confident t doesn't impact staple-sinking performance. Next, it doesn't have the bump-fire feature like the Milwaukee -- it feels like it may have a physical trigger interlock instead of that hall sensor arrangement. One trigger pull = one staple fired only. Then you must release and re-pull on the next staple. And, IIRC, it also doesn't stick out the workpiece-engagement interlock probe when empty. I could be wrong about this last one though, as I usually reload before I run out entirely. Retail on the Ryobi is about $80, and the Milwaukee is about $120 (MSRP on both). I was always a big fan of Powershot manual staplers, but during Ryobi days I got my P317 at the Home Despot for $44 and change. That's pretty hard to complain about! I don't mind that it doesn't have bump-fire, at that price.

[@flynnflakable]

I think an extremely important aspect to consider in comparison is the angle of the dangle. You're not always shooting staples straight down from waist high into something firmly braced. There are occasional situations that require articulations only possible by someone with the strength of the Hulk yet possessing the delicate features of Bruce Banner. With an electric (or pneumatic) gun, if you can get the gun in position while still having enough leverage to pull the trigger then it'll bury one deep as a drunken linebacker on prom night.

[@Basard100]

We had these fully automatic staplers when I was a roofer.... You could shoot a stream of staples like 20 feet through the air. Bad ass staple-gun fights were had almost daily....

[@sparkyprojects]

That only seems to do one type of staple, unlike my hand operated one which can do crown, U shaped, and small nails I think if i was tacking down a tarp or roofing felt, i would go with a hammer stapler. Your last comment reminded me of some workers with an air naier, they drilled a hole in a plank of wood to hold the safety, then fired nails through the hole at a target

[@MikeK7115]

Hey Uncle, thanks for a review on one of my favorite tools. 3 more of my favorite interweb reviewers are also using the that stapler.

[@the.original.throwback]

Wasted my machismo for too many years running a manual T50 stapler. Got old and finally bought a pneumatic Arrow T50 and quit cussing and pulling errant staples that missed or failed to penetrate. Precision tools that do the job right the first time are gifts from the gods. Don't wait to get old before getting smart, kids. Jess

[@Jacob_Dwyer]

I got one last year for hanging up Christmas lights, it is slick when you are out at an angle at arms length and cant get a lot of leverage on the battleaxe. I agree, it is great action and worth it if you are doing more than 5 staples.

[@bassmith448bassist5]

That stapler and a spare pixie pack and a pixie producer and you could staple damn near forever!!!!!!! Great video as usual!!!

[@SKC640]

I tell you what you may have never wore out a manual stapler but when I worked in insulation I would go through about one a month! I tell you what though I would of killed to have that Milwaukee stapler sometimes those old school ones like to bind up and it damn near takes two hands to activate and when you're laying down on rafters trying not to fall through the ceiling while you're tucked into the eve trying to put up some Eve vents using two hands is not possible and after one job my hands would be killing me from trying to use the manual stapler. Especially as a guy with severe arthritis and carpal tunnel it's the little things that make the jobs easier and nicer to get through a whole day, nothing is worse than trying to get through a full day of work when your hands don't want to work to open up and then just decide to lock up on you. Even using cheap $20 dollar ones over year the Milwaukee one would still be cheaper with 2 batteries

[@traewatkins931]

You can wear out the T-50, my family used to have a upholstery shop and we also made box valances. One summer rather than buying a new pneumatic stapler and running a second air line the just handed me a new T-50. About 6 months later I had a wore out T-50 stapler and forearms like Popeye.

[@Mizzelphug]

Great. I just bought a new Arrow last week after leaving my old one in a friend's attic somewhere a decade ago.

[@austinhubbartt695]

I gotta say out of all the tools I've used and owned Milwaukee just does it for me. Their m12 line is pretty skookum for what you pay and most importantly what you get out of it. Ive got alot of their m18 stuff and I've noticed my tools out perform my coworkers tools and they usually come to me to borrow my stuff. I'm just waiting for the 23 gauge pin nailer to drop then I'll have no use for a compressor unless I'm framing a whole house!

[@Donorcyclist]

I have a Powershot that looks like the t50p arse-forward, and it works a treat! Much improved over the older style palm pincher!

[@dandexinventor]

Hmmm, I just bought a carbon-fiber DeWalt hand actuated stapler for target shooting and I like it a lot better than the standard T50, but I didn't think to go electric...till now! I've been buying M12 tools just in case I have to work and charging off solar with Milwaukee's USB charger is doable in a pinch. Thanks AvE!