Arrow CT50 Professional Cordless Staple Gun
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Manufacturer: Arrow FastenerModel: CT50
Product features:
- Powered by 10.8-volt Lithium Ion Battery
- Includes 60-minute charger and case
- LED guide light illuminates the work area and indicates exactly where the staple legs exit the stapler
- Shoots standard T50 staples
- Depth of drive control allows you to adjust the material you're stapling
- Old House Journal (1-year)
- Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
- This Old House (1-year)
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Arrow CT50 Professional Cordless Staple Gun
Customer Review: Could have been Great. Reality is Anything But!
Summary: 1 Stars
I really needed a cordless stapler to put in 88 Kraft backed insulation batts under the roof in the attic.
I read the bad reviews for this and hoped they were just the few people who had gotten a dud or expected too much.
WRONG!
It's even worse than they said.
1. Even if you hold it down perfectly level with top pressure against it, it will fully seat a 3/8" staple less than half of the time.
2. When it is cold (approx 60 degrees F) even with a fully charged battery. It will set one staple, then not cycle for the second requiring removing your finger from the trigger and raising stapler off of the board and then re setting it and firing again. (Try that on your back under the eves a few hundred times). As it warms up it will eventually do 2 in a row and later three and then finally will let you do them continuously (after a couple hundred staples).
3. Even with a single perfect stick of staples (forget 2) it will jam every 20 or 30th staple requiring removal with needle nose pliers. (If you open the staple feed to remove the bad staple, you will find that the force of the stapling action has ruptured the staple stick in many places and you will normally end up having to dump them all.)
4. If you put in 2 sticks of staples or even 2 shorter staple stick sections, the feed cap has trouble closing and will often break the remaining staples loose causing jams and the inevitable necessity of just discarding the remaining staples.
5. On the plus side, the battery showed full charge for around 2000 staples although the jamming and failure to cycle fully problems mentioned previously would escalate considerably well before the battery started to indicate discharge.
This could have been a great tool, it certainly costs enough to have been a great tool.
But the reality is that it is a complete peice of junk and should never have been put into production with so many glaring defeceits.
I have 2 corded Arrow electric staplers which work fine after many tens of thousands of staples through each. They cost $30.00 each.
This is certainly not a production or construction quality tool, and in fact is terrible for general around the home use as well.
DO NOT BUY THIS TOOL!
Description of Arrow CT50 Professional Cordless Staple Gun
New Lithium Ion Cordless Staple Gun Kit, Comes With Gun, Charger and Case, Quick 1 Hour Charge, Powerful Litium Ion Battery, Uses All The T50 Staple Sizes, Hold 2 Full Strips Of T50 Staples.Nailers & Staplers
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