Adam's guide to staplers and nail guns: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BIf7fuOIB1Q.html Bostitch Booklet Stapler: amzn.to/4c9lLH0 Swingline Heavy Duty Stapler: amzn.to/48VseCu Swing-Arm Swivel Stapler: amzn.to/4acHGeF Puppeteer Stacey Gordon's visit to the cave: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cH7Ql35LYSI.html Disclaimer: Tested may earn an affiliate commission when you buy through the links here.
How about a "losing your temper" demerit badge? When your frustration takes over and want to either give up or break something or both. Or is that too extreme?
I have a Swingline HD stapler, it's awesome, great for book and biding prototyping. I found the Bostitch Long-Reach Stapler (12", 25-Sheet Capacity, Model: B440LR) to be very multitalented.
I don't see either here or in the linked video a mention of hog rings. I build a Rose Parade float, and we go through 25 pounds or more of them every year to attach chicken wire to a steel grid (and then fabric on top of that). They also get used for upholstery and fencing.
And I said I don't care if they lay me off either because I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time then I'm quitting I'm going to quit and I told Don too because they moved my desk four times already this year and I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirrels and they were married but then they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Broche is french for staple so Brochure is literally "stapled together". Rob's Words would advocate for the use of Stapling (maybe with some old English letters added😁)
Plier staplers are one of the big revelation in my life. I first saw them at my pharmacy where they used them to staple documents to the medication bags. It's such a seemingly minor ergonomic thing but it makes all the difference.
It's funny, I'm a taxi driver and wanted to make some laminated tour brouchures for when cruise ship passengers arrive in my town and I had the problem of a standard stapler creasing the paper or damaging the laminated sheets. I bought the 'rotating' stapler to get around this problem - I didn't know the brouchure stapler you showed existed - Would've made a neater spine a lot easier. I love your videos and enthusiasm for different solutions to simple problems even down the nitty gritty of fastening paper. For the record the brouchures have been a hit among fellow drivers and ended up with an order so we could offer a uniformed selection of tours.
A red Swingline stapler has always been so tempting even though it would be pretty useless to me. Maybe I should look into buying some sort of poster of the red swingline stapler instead, maybe even retro style even though it didn't exist in red until after the movie.
I used to be a buyer of office supplies for Bank of America. Every month I bought thousands of dollars of furniture and general office supplies. I was all about staplers back then. I could look at a stapler and instantly tell you the manufacturer and the model number and often what era it came from. That famous Aeron chair with the mesh seats was introduced back then and I am amazed to see that it is still selling for the exact same price it was 25 years ago. $700. When accounting for inflation that's actually a reduction in price but Im still amazed the price hasnt changed in 25 years.
i worked at staples when i was a kid and honestly for a place named after the thing they had a crappy selection lol. But chairs were one of the most marked up items in the store a chair that they had 80 dollars in cost in, they sold for 350 dollars. I think the reason the price hasn't changed is because the furniture market has only gotten more competitive over time and companies have had to relax on their very cushy margins.
One stapler I didn't see you mention is a pinning stapler that bends out instead of in! We had a few staplers with a rotatable anvil, that let you switch between the staples being bent in and out. Outward bending staples are easier to remove with much less potential for damage of the thing you are removing them from.
Thanks for posting this. I was thinking about asking about those outward bending staples but had never heard what they were called and didn't know why they were used.
@@marksnyder2232 'Hey kid! Here's a five, run down to the stationers and get me a jumbo pack of outward folding staples would you? Thanks. And they MUST be the outward folding kind. Don't take any BS from the staff because they're out of stock. And hurry!'
@@marksnyder2232I thought they all had that. At least the ones referred to as a desk stapler. As a former art teacher and the grandson of a stationary junkie grandmother. I have a few old swing line you could run over with a truck they are so heavy.
Always a joy to see Adam talk about anything with such passion! His explainations and curiousity can make any subject interesting. Keep up the good work sir!
When I got my job in 2009 someone got me a red swingline stable exactly like Milton’s from Office Space. I still use it at work, even though it’s not as red as it used to be.😂 “I believe you have my red stapler!”
The Japanese have staplers that don't need the metal thing (sorry, English is my second language). It kind of pierces (and or folds, idk) the paper in such a way that it keeps it together I think. I don't know how strong this method is, but it is interesting.
They're usually just called staple-free staplers. They can't handle quite as many sheets at once due to the 'fold and tuck' method of fastening, but are useful if you need to shred documents later on, since metal staples can jam paper shredders. And obviously, you'll never run out of staples!
My kid's school uses these for permission slips - great because we can send back the signed sheet and keep the informational sheets without fuss or tearing.
When I first started work at the National Portrait Gallery in 1989, I explored an old cache of office equipment. They had staplers that used spools of copper wire to make staples! So cool! So old! The NPG was founded in the 1960s, but I don’t know how much older those staplers may have been.
One of my favorites is a super cheap one that reloads differently. On most staplers, the top flips open to allow staples to be loaded. On this one, there's a button you push and a "tray" shoots out of the front where you load staples, and press the tray back in. Why do I love it? Because the stapler tray shooting out vaguely resembles the Xenomorph.
Something Ive found is that a surprising number of people dont realise that on many (most?) staplers you can push up the metal part that bends the tines, rotate it 180 degrees, and itll now bend the tines outwards instead of inwards. (I have yet to ever find a use for this, or even find anyone else who has ever had a use for this, which is probably why so many people Ive met didnt know why there was a weird nobly bit on a spring under the plate that allows you to do it.)
That function is for temporary fastening - rather than stapling, it's called pinning. It holds papers together, but can be removed by hand without any additional tools.
I used to use this a lot: it is super practical if you need hand-outs for trainees - you can staple stuff together, so that it is clear what belongs together while you hand it out to multiple people, but then it is super easy for them to pull out the staple and use the pages separately. It's also a bit more secure than wire paper clips and cheaper than binder clips.
As others have said for momentary fastening that can just be pulled up cleanly by a fingernail. With one of mine you can click it in half way so the bent staple has legs pointing out at opposite 90 degree angles to the back, you just have to twist the staple out when you want to remove it.
This is just him talking about staplers and I'm so here for it. No one else-no one else can just grab my attention like this and have me stay for the entirety of it, other then Adam...
Being the husband of a primary school teacher I have been dragooned into making various pamphlets and the spine stapler is ideal! That swivel stapler is intriguing!
My favourite stapler is a tiny little 2.5" long one from a brand called "typo" (they don't sell them any more). Takes standard size staples, and will punch through as many pages as the length of the tines almost every time. Had it for over a decade now, still works like new.
I think the full bundle of all the demerit badges should be called the "Lifelong Learner" pack. Everyone fails at things all the time, even the stuff they've been doing for years, and learning every nook and cranny of your craft should be celebrated.
My father had a stapler that you picked up and held in your hand to staple. It wasn't designed to sit on a table. I think it was designed for use in a shipping office where you were stapling an invoice or bill of lading onto a tag, It also used staples that were a kind of "ESS" shape.
I've seen things stapled with that "ESS" shape but never found what brand they were. I do have a Plier stapler from Bostich, and it uses the same B8 staples as their saddle staple and desk stapler. I also have a heavier plier stapler, the Arrow P22.
the stapler you hold in your hand like a stick or a bat (did a search and its called a Hammer Tacker), it gets used a lot for roofing and other building trades. there are paper membranes that usually need attached to roofs or walls before an external material is used to make the building water tight (the membrane papers do make things water tight for a short period of time) and its a lot quicker than using a staple gun (unless its an air or battery powered staple gun) to use that type of stapler. i think your father seen on and thought that would be so useful for the job he did. i think thats why Adam says at the start he is really only talking about desk type staplers as there are a lot of different types once you go down the rabbit hole of looking for them.
@@douglasreid699 No, stapling a BoL onto a tag is still stapling two pieces of paper together. The stapler he's referring to is a plier-stapler, designed to be squeezed like a pair of pliers rather than pushed down onto a desk.
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For doing a lot of stapling, I really like the Prodigy Brand Paper Pro One Finger, 25 Sheet Power Stapler. It is small and looks like a regular desktop Swingline stapler that most people have. But, with hardly any pressure at all, it staples through 25 sheets of paper. Just a light touch hammers the staple through with a loud CLACK. Easy one-hand operation. Also good for older folks or anyone who has weak hands. Despite the name, it is NOT electric. Purely mechanical. Can be used anywhere.
when I was a small lad not tall enough to see the top of my father's office desk, I manage to reach up to the desk and staple the edges of two of my tiny fingers together. I had forgotten about this until you mentioned that it's hard to hurt yourself XD
As a curator, I would like to mention that staples are a bane of our lives. They go rusty and paper gets torn around them, so we have to remove them and replace them with plastic clips. So please, use any other kind of binding solution if your work can end up in a museum or archive. Oh and use archival storage. And sign and date everything, I beg of you!
It seems like the Japanese style paper punch staplers would be useful for your purposes as they connect pages by creating small tabs within the individual pages which are tucked under to bind the stack.
I picked up this auto stapler folder.. thing.. machine several years ago because the stationery shop was throwing it out.. You basically put a booklet or whatever on a tray, press a button and it gets pulled in to a spacer, stapled and then pushed down through a chute folding it in half.. Used it for a charity I used to volunteer for (it ran out of money over covid and shutdown) so not used it much for personal stuff but when I want to use something really excessive on a tiny project it's always fun to break out
Adam has the knack of making the mundane seem fascinating. A rare and under appreciated talent. Speaking of staplers, years ago I purchased a Rapid Classic 1. It is operated by a scissor grip like pliers or secateurs. It is chrome plated but the staple tray is rusting slightly. Stamped in the flat metal on one side in tiny font are the words "Made in Sweden", almost too small to read. On the other side, in case you missed the message on the first side, is stamped in the same sized font the words, "designed and manufactured by Isaberg Rapid AB Hestra Sweden". I an intrigued by how this item like many other mechanical items come across our path in life and then disappear into the fog of history. It speaks of the ingenuity of man, and like Adam's "stapler collection" is worth preserving into the future.
I bought a heavy duty stapler 20+ years ago long with a box of staples for a job; I didn’t use it much but over 20 years latter I still have a mostly full box of staples. I don’t use it much but when I need it it’s a great thing to have.
It takes guts to reach Savage glory; or the no guts, no glory.. apologies.. I love creating taglines, so hopefully I don’t overwhelm you guys.. thanks for everyone who produces the show.. there’s so much that goes into it- so much gratitude
That reminds me of back in the days when I wanted to make my own Comics (probably was around 10 then) and all I had were two "normal" cheap staplers - so I had to align them spot on each other so the one underneath the papers would bend the staple that came from the one above.. And after a few tries I figured it out! 👍
Just another reason it ALWAYS pays to watch daily! I need to research to see if there is one made that acts as a combination on the swingline and blue one. I resell on ebay as a hobby and the amount of times I wished I had the aforementioned, combination stapler is in the 100's for sure. Thanks for always being an inspiration! ✌🖖
I do the supply ordering at work. The compact Bostitch 1/2 strip staplers are amazing. They are heavy duty & can do 40 sheets. Very powerful for a tiny stapler. Most of us have switched to just using those. Highly recommend
Bad wrists + normal staplers = ouch! But Staples (the company) won me over as the first place I found a stapler that assists your pressure, and for up to 20 sheets only a light squeeze is needed and no ouch. ❤
Recently purchased an Ellepi Klizia for use at my architecture office. I love the thicker narrow staples. Despite being smaller, they bind slightly more sheets than a basic desktop unit; but not enough to warrant the lever press. I also found once bound, the paper doesn't twist as much at the penetration with the staples' more square cut wire.
I once had a stapler, I believe it was a swingline, that had an adjustable anvil. The one drove the staple in, the other drove the staple out. I believe the staple out was for book binders so the staples were more easily removed, but a little more hazardous. Love you and your approach to the universe ❤
I remember my first stapler, my mother buying it at a car boot sale along with the memory of a staple being stuck in my finger hah, ouch. Now i enjoy re-binding magazines, booklets, comics anything that needs it because rusty staples, pulled staples. Loop binding, putting protective covers on front and back then to look at the item come back to life, to last another 30 years, magical.
Dunno if this is more of a British thing or not, but I'd recon here that everyone's first mechanical fixing method is the split-pin. Normally, in like Year 2 (age 6/7), making a little paper character with swinging arms and legs 😅☺️😌 Also, for anyone not aware. On most standard staplers, you can push up the base plate from the bottom and rotate it for a wider crimp ... I think it stops the ends curving over and gripping in on the back so is better for when it's temporary or something; if I remember correctly. EDIT: Immediately went and found my stapler to test it. It actually spreads the ends outward.
I have a few staplers that you would go bunkers over. First is a traditional long-reach stapler. The second is a spring-loaded stapler. These ones are super easy to use, especially when you have to drive a lot of staples; but they don't allow stacking staples close together (or at least mine doesn't). But the most fun is a staple-less stapler. While it only works with small number of sheets (up to 4), it punches a tongue in the sheets, folds them and locks them together automatically. Quite fantastic to see.
I just watched the video about Adam’s favorite pencil, and now I’m watching him show off his stapler collection. I don’t think there’s anyone else on earth I could listen to talk about office supplies for so long 😂
Still using my 1940's Swingline Desktop stapler. Found it at an estate sale about 20 years ago brand new in the factory box. Also have an electric stapler I found in the trash at work. It wasn't working so I took it apart and removed a bent staple. Painted it Pitty Tink so if someone took it would be easy to find. Brought it home with me when I retired, it is now my garage stapler.
My absolute favorite stapler I’d the Markwell anvil stapler. Will staple through anything and can staple over a large item such as a zipper. And staples perfectly every time.
The trusty stapler is the first mechanical device that I pulled apart to work out how it functions when I was a wee lad. That process was the catalyst of my ever growing lust to tinker with devices and understand their workings.
Great episode! Every shop should have at least one Swedish Isaberg Rapid Classic 1 stapler in it. So durable and so satisfying to use. It will become your default go-to general stapler. Next time you're in a florist you'll definitely see one. They've been onto them for a long time!
The amount of excessively nerdy analysis of staplers here is like a balm to my soul. I used to have an adjustable depth heavy-duty Bostitch (one of the many lovely tools I lost in a house fire) that I had a very serious love/hate relationship with.
A stapler that i keep handy always is a bostich p3 plier stapler. I originally needed it to staple a whole bunch of cups together for an art project. It was the only one that could fit in the narrow space, and at awkward angles. It also turns out to be super ergonomic to actually use.
For me the best stapler of all time: The old Novus 53 (B6). Elegant design, beautiful mechanics, solid build, quality “Made in Germany” and a built-in stapler drawer. Whenever you can get your hands on one, buy it. It's the holy grail of staplers. ;-)
Oooh - good topic. A plier stapler would be a good addition. I use it so much more than I thought I would. I have a mini plier stapler too - with the half size staples.
I think after paste, my next level was those brass brads that had 2 flat legs and you would push them through a hole (also one of the first mechanicals i used) and then you would split the legs apart on the other side. They were also built in to a lot of the paper folders I used.
My two Favorite Staplers - Must Used when I had to Staple alot at work was the "Whale" Plier Style Stapler like the Uline H-704 - and a Staple-Free Stapler that does not use Staples and just punched and folded the Paper only works for a few pages but never ran out :)
There are 2 of the heavy duty Swingline staplers in the office of my kids' elementary school (I volunteer there almost daily) and they're great! So helpful for putting together packets
80% of my Heavy Duty stapler usage has been mending bags(re-attaching a handle). I can tell you from experience that a proper Swingline stapler can staple up to 40 one dollar bills together(if you're lucky), but more than that you should really use a Heavy Duty.
TIL that the "Saddle Stapler" is something that exists (though looking back, I obviously knew that documents could be stapled in such a fashion). Fascinating!
Hands free staplers are also great, activated by pressing the paper against the back. If you have batches of paperwork for a meeting, you can feed each stack in, slide it to the side and get three quick staples to form a quick binding. Another are 'staplers' that don't use metal staples at all, but punch and fold a small pattern of the paper itself, securing the sheaf. Saves the annoyance of removing the staple when shredding or disposing of the documents. Both are quite common here in Japan.
In addition to the brochure stapler you can get a more generalized long reach stapler (mine has a 12-inch reach). The blue one Adam showed does allow for a bit of extension, but it's much more limited when compared with the long reach. It doesn't have the easy to use brochure plate but with care can be used to produce the same saddle placement, or some otherwise difficult to access placement.
We hosted some exchange students from Japan a while back, and one of the things they gifted us when it was time to say goodbye was a small staple-less stapler... yes, that's right, no need to buy staples ever again! It simply punched a small hole in the pages, and then folded it back in such a way that created a secure bond between a few pages, without the need for a metallic staple. It was small enough, that it's not useful for much more than securing a few pages at a time, and certainly couldn't do booklets, but it's kinda rad that it doesn't require boxes and boxes of staples to service it... :D
I'm a huge fan of my speed products swingline speed stapler done up from the factory in army green. It was made in new York and I'm guessing it's a 40's stapler. I use it every day at work, and many have made note of how cool it is. It also is very strong and can go through more pages than any other stapler ive owned. Picked it up on Evay for less than a new plastic disposable ones.
Adam gives me teacher vibes, that person you wish you had for a homeroom teacher or the arts and just want to stay. Then encourages you the other classes are necessary for makinf..lol
i used to collect stapler removers they were always super well made for such a simple task lol And the had all kinds of designs back in the day idk why but i found them to be such a cool little device.
I've got a an art deco stapler from Swingline embossed with the name of the Chemical Savings Bank. I have always admired their design, ever since meeting a heavy AF one in band class in high school.
Great video, as always, and nice to know about the new stapler. Would be nice to also show stapling with 'toe in' and 'toe out'. I find many people don't know you can change the base plate on some staplers for this.
My two favorite staplers are 1) a stapler that uses a spool of wire instead of individual staplers 2) a "demitasse" stapler that is a tiny travel pocket stapler but it doesn't use mini #10 staples, it uses regular size staples 1/4" staples that are held in place with a magnet
I like to keep a set of large note pads, writing utensils, notecards, etc. contained all in an Saunder's aluminum clipboard and in it I also keep a Midori compact stapler that is about the size of a pair of nail clippers. It serves well enough to staple a handful of papers together. I grab the clipboard and have everything I need to write on, write with, mark, highlight, clip, note, and staple while on the go.
Not so much for crafts but my favorite stapler will always be the one I don't have to push ... automatic electric staplers are the bomb for office work where you may have to staple multiple copies of an agenda to hand out.
We have a Swingline 67 Electric at work that's just AMAZING for doing stuff in bulk. Automatic stapler, baby! I LOVE it and wanna get one for the house, but haven't because I might staple stuff once a month at home if I'm lucky. Most of my work is digital these days. We've also got an old Bostitch Textron FHFS, meant for doing catalog spine staples. It's got a 1/3HP AC motor! Not exactly a home DIY solution but it'll staple anything you put on it lmao
I have a Japanese "stapleless" stapler. Branded as "Chadwick". It "staples" paper together using only the paper you're attaching. I'll be forever proud if I have a tool that Adam doesn't!
I have three standard staplers on hand (that I can think of, any others therefore don't exist in this continuum at present), the small office one in my office, the hunking big thing in my workshop and the long arm that has about a 12" throat. They're all at least 50 years old and ridiculously solid with hardened steel parts. They're the ones I haven't managed to break by doing inadvisable things like assisting them with my heel to get through 'just a couple more sheets'.
The sound when you spun the stapler reminded me of the huge wooden football* rattle I had as a kid. That was a long time ago, when carrying a massive whirling bludgeon was normal (*soccer)
Hey Adam, I’ve been a hobbyist maker for a long time, nothing on the professional level by any means but I do like gadgets and this video came out at the perfect time. A few weeks ago my son ended up having to get staples in his head. Clearly it’s not the same type of stapler, do you know how these types of surgical staplers work? There is no guile under the skin.
I have two other variations of a normal stapler. On one, the lower guide has another position that pushes the ends of the staple outwards instead of in (allows for easier removal). The other is a "flat cinch" stapler that bends the ends in but leaves them flat against the bottom surface rather than curving them in - this prevents them from poking back through the material and also results in a lower-profile staple. The flat cinch stapler is a favorite for coin collectors to staple cardboard coin holders.
