recommend staple gun?

Mike Scott 8 years ago

I tried my trusty hand stapler last week in an effort to re-cover some chair seats. Unfortunately it wasn't powerful enough to push the staples fully into the particle board for the seats (the last chairs were a softwood frame, on which it worked fine).

So, any recommendations for a staple gun that will work on hard particle board please? Without spending more than a new set of chairs would cost! :-}

The seemingly ubiquitous TRE550 seems to get very polarized reviews; other low end ones seem to have largely poor reviews.

TIA.

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Vir Campestris 8 years ago

I had this problem. So I finished off the stables with a tack hammer.

Andy

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Vir Campestris 8 years ago

That was of course staPles...

Andy

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Mike Scott 8 years ago

And there I was wondering how the horse would react to the tack hammer :-)

I've decided to try a different tack - I've ordered some 4mm staples instead of the 6mm I've been trying. I'm hoping they'll go all the way in.

This board seems to be the hardest stuff in the house - I've tried the manual stapler on sundry bits of scrap wood and chipboard, with no problem at all; it's just these particular seats.

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