STANLEY 2in1 Heavy Duty Electric Stapler and Nail Gun, Compatible with 2 Types of Fastenings, Compact Nose to Fit Corners and Edges, Safety Switch for Easy Transportation and Storage, 0-TRE550

Oh I've found my new toy. This electric staple/nail gun is brilliant. It's so easy to use and to replace staples or nails into the gun. I find it functions better if I hold it steady on the back with my hand and just a little pressure to keep it in place. Get really good result by doing this. The staples don't jam or once fired into the object getting covered they don't purtrude they sink in. Great tool to have such good quality and value for money. Not expensive to buy staples and nails either so can really stock up on those. I love it plus it's not heavy to hold I'm arthritic in my hands and I use it with ease.

I have a manual stapler, this Stanley electric stapler, and an pneumatic stapler too!The manual stapler is just tiring, also I find it a little difficult because you have to press down pretty hard when you are stapling harder materials. The pneumatic stapler is the easiest of them all, requiring almost no down pressure to operate and is very fast and powerful. The only thing with that is the compressor is way over the top for normal use, and I only use the pneumatic stapler for major projects. In the middle is the Stanley electric stapler. It’s not the most impressive looking devices, but it works very well.The gun arrives blister packed. It is surprisingly heavy, similar sort of weight to the metal manual guns. The cable is about eight feet long but is standard plastic which is not very flexible, but I guess it's too much to expect a silicon cable on a tool that is this cheap. However, the cable is too thick and inflexible. It's only a double core 5A cable but its too rigid and gets in the way all the time. They really should fit a more flexible cable.The round knob on the back of the stapler adjusts the power of the strike. It’s a good idea to place a few staples where they can’t be seen, while you adjust it for a particular staple and material. A few staples is usually enough. I tested it with standard heavy duty staples I bought some place and it accepted those and of course the Stanley staples. The Stanley staples were pressed out of slightly thinner steel so they drove in to the wood further… so each time you use a different manufacturers staple you need to test a few staples, and of course if you use a difference depth staple you need to adjust it too.Using the stapler for a short while, I came to the conclusion that the setting really depended what you are doing. That may sound obvious, but, what I really mean is are you stapling one handed or two? If you are stapling two handed, in other words can apply a small amount of pressure to the back of the gun, then you get far better penetration with the staple. But if you are doing something like stapling picture canvases then you need to operate the stapler with one hand because the other is holding the canvas taught - so you can't put pressure on the back, which may limit the operation of the stapler. With small staples it's not a problem you just turn the power up. With larger staples this may become an issue though. I used 6mm staples for canvas and everything works just fine.The staple packs are horrible, lol, my staples fell out and getting them back in is like trying to thread a needle with a piece of cooked spaghetti.The one slightly disturbing thing with the stapler is the business end, where the staples come out, it's very wide, so it is difficult at to judge where the staple is going to come out. The thinner head of some staplers is much better.All in all it’s a great device. Very easy to use and very effective. Highly recommended!

This is the 2nd TRE550 that I've purchased and now returning and this one didn't last as long as the 1st one.Stopped working and rattles inside. I suspect it's something to do with the safety feature. Only fired 200 Staples and it's failed.Not at all happy.EDIT: Well I'm onto my 3rd gun now and this one broke too and is outside of the Amazon warranty period. I've decided to strip this one to see what the issue is and I can confirm that the problem lies with the poorly designed safety feature. On the whole, the safety works great but the problem is that the plastic part which contacts the microswitch is held onto the spring steel by a flimsy 0.5mm (approx) sliver of metal which is embedded in the plastic.After firing the staple gun for between 200 and 1000 staples, this breaks off rendering the gun useless.My fix was to clean and solder a formed piece of piano wire (1mm diam approx) so that it contacts the microswitch as designed. This mod is absolutely solid and allows the gun to retain the safety feature and fire without fail.I will still leave the review as 1 star due to the fact that the original safety part is utter Sh!te and not many people will be able to modify this gun safely.If the safety feature had been designed as I had modded, then definitely 5 stars. The only other thing I would add to this gun is a hook to hang the gun from your belt/pocket.

First off, this thing is good and does what it says it does. Staples in, bam. Pretty loud but it works. Not tried the nails. (There are no nails or staples supplied, but I didn't expect this). The not so good is that after 1000 staples in 2 days (I'm making some acoustic frames), it just stopped working. I opened it up (7 T10 screws) and the mechanism is very simple - the trigger which connects the mains to a solenoid via the safety switch. It seems the metal spring on the safety switch is too soft and its deformation means it stops reliably engaging the microswitch to allow the mechanism to fire. I bent this up slightly, sprayed some dry silicone over the moving parts, closed up and it works reliably again.Stanley may wish to reinforce this piece of metal if they want to class it as "Heavy Duty", since 1000 staples out of a £30 gun before failure isn't very good.

Brilliant thanks

Did the job very well.