Thread: Really cheap but not nasty Supatool battery staple gun

I have started to do a fair bit of upholstery and so forth, and felt I needed something better in the way of a staple gun than the cheap one I had for the odd small job. (I do have an air stapler that came with a set of 3 guns I bought, but don't want to lug a compressor into the house every time I want to staple something, so I lashed out and bought the "best" (read most expensive) manual stapler, a Stanley, for just under $80 from Mitre 10. Salesman said it would "easily staple ply to hardwood" blah blah. Yeah right! One handed, it pushes a short light gauge staple into pine. Up the gauge and length and the staple doesn't even go all the way into pine unless you lean on it! Hardwood - forget it! As half the time you're using your other hand to hold the material you're stapling, this is worse that TOAB. (ie useless) Luckily I know the manager of our local branch pretty well and he's mates with the Stanley rep etc. so I will eventually get a refund. Yay.

Anyway, FWIW, I Googled away and found Transquip in WA were (are still I think) selling Supatool battery guns for $43 on special (marked down from $117, they say) so figured I had nothing to lose at that price. It took a full 24 hours to charge the battery - I thought I had a dud after 15-16 hours - the light doesn't change when it's charged, as far as I can see. Since then this thing has gone like a TRAIN, and so far I must have used about 200 staples and 100 brads still on that initial charge. Really, really useful for any number of jobs.