Used one of those porter cable guns every day except saturdays for 20+ years, without issues. I also got it with a sturdy storage case at the time. Excellent piece of tool.
I watched your video because I'm replacing the convertible top on my 1989 5.0 Mustang. Instead of wood I'll be stapling into a tack strip, which is pretty much a hard plastic material used to attach the canvas top to. Based upon your feedback, I'm going to buy an air compressor and a pneumatic staple gun. Thanks!
Excellent demonstration and explanation between the two staple guns. In rewebbing some vintage wicker chairs, I need to get the staples down into a narrow channel. Your video made it easy to choose the pneumatic staple gun and a small compressor. Thank you so much!
The difference is indeed the staple. The electric stapler takes 50 series staples which are heavy duty and are not suitable for upholstery and are more for use in DIY jobs like felting, etc. The second is specifically for upholstery and takes 71 series staples which are thin wire staples so are easier to fire but the staplers are usually much more expensive than a 50 series stapler.
Awesome, thanks for the demonstration. I have a hand/manual stapler for around the garage projects such as putting up insulation (my hand was hurting after that one). I thought about getting an electric stapler but after seeing this I'm going straight to a pneumatic one to use with my compressor. Thanks!
I have a California air tools 4620A compressor. Great compressor but way more than you'd need for this. However I'd highly recommend you buy one of their compressors if you plan on doing upholstery work. These things are very quite and you won't cringe every time it kick on or piss off all your neighbors with the sound. I'll message you with a link to one that I think would work food with this gun without costing as much as I paid for mine.
Great work and Thank you very much. Now I am off to get a Pneumatic staple gun. I almost picked up a electric one. It would have been hell getting the jetski seats done with the electric gun. Great demostrations. Thank you Again!
I had bought a small air compressor from Harbor Freight on sale for $60 and put in a large plastic storage container..but first I put a furniture pad in the plastic container so I could reduce the noise of the air compressor when it comes on. The depth of the staple can be determined by the amount of air compressure indicated on the gauge. My wife after years of working with a manual stapler loves the PorterCable long nose model. Life is good.
Thank you for awesome explanation. I got electric dewalt but not happy with it at all. Exactly how you demonstrated, I have to press really hard to have nice staple. I’m going to return it.
Thanks for the video. Exactly what I've been looking for..info on which stapler to buy. I'm redoing our pool table. Slate is done but having a time getting bumpers re-felted. Regular stapler not working :( Going pneumatic!
Thank you for the review! Please, please, please stop "taking chances" with the grinding without safety glasses thing. You could SERIOUSLY lose an eye from a flying wire. Eye patches and glass eyes are not as cool as they seem in the movies. NO customer or piece of work is worth your vision and true penetrating eye injuries are unsalvageable.
Alvarez Metal Works We all forget, we certainly are all human, that is for sure! During the summers in college, I worked for this guy doing odd jobs and I was once using a brush to paint a ceiling with enamel (wasn't wearing safety glasses) and a big gob of the stuff fell right into my eye. Instantly felt like an idiot. Couldn't get the burning to stop by flushing at work. Had to go to ER (wasn't cheap)... thankfully, no serious damage. When I was done with my education, I started working in the ER. Then I got to see all the crazy eye injuries like you read about. I do a lot of DIYing (primarily sailboat refinishing) and anytime I catch myself grinding, hammering, sanding etc without my glasses, i get queazy. Bought one of those 3m full face respirators recently. Best thing ever for sanding, grinding etc as it protects lungs and eyes. Additionally, nothing can fall around the glasses. Made sanding fiberglass (even in tight overhead spaces) completely bearable.
+Alvarez Metal Works I ended up calling a Porter cable repair man, and was able to instruct me over the phone., he said to use a rubber hammer and hit the sides to loosen the cylinder, we did..several times and was able to extract it out. Not an easy thing to get out...again thank you for your help.
