How To Use A Pneumatic Stapler

This is a pneumatic stapler. There are two types, well, two basic types; wide mouth ones, a bit like the ones you staple paper together with, same sort of staples, same type of thing, and narrow mouth ones, you lock it in place. The narrow mouth ones are long and thin.

The full staple gun you use for paper, it shoots a staple in and bends it round. This doesn't do that. It just shoots them straight in, so the different types are used for different things.

This is used for cloth, because then it holds several layers of cloth down, upholstery, that sort of thing. And this is used for wood because it leaves a nice, narrow top and it has longer points that go into the next piece of wood. I'm going to show you how to put together this box, I'm putting a top in the box, it's too big, don't worry about that, because you can ratchet it off afterward, it's one of the tricks you can do.

You want to have a staple that's at least as long as the depth of the board you're stapling and the same again, and preferably a bit more. Put the staple in, obviously with the points going towards the end of the gun, slide it shut, make sure it's locked shut, has a safety catch on here, and that will fire, with that the trigger won't move all the way back. Obviously, don't point it at anyone.

The same with the nail gun, you just push, put the thing on, and pull it back to pull it off. With the safety off, make sure you're in line with where you shooting into. Sometimes, it helps to actually draw a line down there because I have an overhang, it will help.

It's now stapled on. If you're making a box like this, what you can do is make sure the thing is square, before you staple the other side down because the box, lower part of the box, can still twist around like this. Draw a line on the way down, down the middle of the board.

Make sure you don't go beyond the end. Cloth staplers are exactly the same, the staples themselves are much wider and they sit on the surface. That's how you use a staple gun. .