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Time has come for a new staple gun!

Im looking at the rapid R36 but I'm unsure this one will work for 6 core alarm cable 'and' larger cat5/belden/coax?

Anybody use one, cheapest price I found is £40.

 

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1 hour ago, james.wilson said:

nah, I've had the same one for 20yr

Not to be a topper but just thinking mine is from c1995, now only used for the Xmas lights outside and spent a couple of days under water in 2007, but still. 

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.


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Very odd, I use a tacwise stapler which is plastic lol and it has lasted years. 

I bought a more heavy duty tacwise one which was metal after loosing one - thinking it would be more robust....... Broke it! 

Back to a plastic one again!

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Mine simply mis fires every few staples and drives me nuts when it does so.

never tried cleaning or oiling it mind, can you maintain them?

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R28 might need the pin braying back in if it's misfiring

 

If it been dropped the body might need squeezing together with a vice if splaying out where the pin is

 

The instructions say to oil them but I've never bothered

 

 

 

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Still using my old faithful BIF Titan twin impact cable tacker I guess from around 1975-1980s, cannot get the BIF staples now so used the Rapid 28/10 and what others I can get hold of these days. Usually found if it miss fired it was the wrong staple. Often stripped mine down to maintain it. Always found it fine on 4,6,8 core cables as longs as you take care.

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1 hour ago, ultrasonic said:

Still using my old faithful BIF Titan twin impact cable tacker I guess from around 1975-1980s, cannot get the BIF staples now so used the Rapid 28/10 and what others I can get hold of these days. Usually found if it miss fired it was the wrong staple. Often stripped mine down to maintain it. Always found it fine on 4,6,8 core cables as longs as you take care.

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On 06/02/2018 at 12:55, norman said:

We have a winner!!

They don't make um like they used to!

i only recently retired some pliers from 25 years ago, I thought that was good going!

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