Stanley TRE550 Electric Staple / Brad Nail Gun

List Price: $27.89 Discount Price: $25.19

Features:

• Heavy-duty electric staple / brad nailgun with outstanding driving power
• Unique dual power lever (Hi/Lo) designed for use with hard or soft materials
• Quick-jam-clear mechanism saves time and hassles
• Includes 8-foot power cord
• Uses Stanley SharpShooter TRA700 Series or Arrow T-50 heavy duty staples and 1/2-, 9/16- and 5/8-inch brads

Customer Reviews:

$28.47 to diy crown molding and recover a vanity stool [Posted on 2007-04-20]
I have long wanted a staple/nail gun and a glue gun. The corded Stanley is better than I hoped for.

Stick with a manual stapler [Posted on 2007-12-14]
Purchased this gun, but will be returning it right away.

This gun may be good for very soft wood and short staples, but is worthless for your average wood or hardwood.

I tried this gun first with 1/2" staples on poplar wood. The staples only went in about halfway. I tried again with 1/4" staples (the shortest) and they still did not penetrate fully even with very hard pressure.

I tried the same staples with an average manual gun, and they penetrated fully.

If you're looking for something tho make your staple work easier, look elsewhere.

Great but only for softer woods than Oak [Posted on 2008-03-09]
Purchased one of these to drive 3/8" Stainless Steel Arrow T-50 staples through thin indoor-outdoor carpet into oak stairs. The staples worked fin in my manual Arrow T-50 gun, but the Stanley gun, at it;s highest setting could only get the staples in all the way about half the time. One bang with a hammer drove them in the rest of the way , but that defeats the idea of the electric gun, in my opinion.

It did perform well on a block of Alder and also Doug Fir, but forget about Oak , Walnut or hardwoods.
I would recommend this product for woods softer than Oak.

Buy a hammer with it! [Posted on 2008-03-10]
The reason the title says "buy a hammer with it" is because you will definitely need the hammer. Here is how the stapler works, first you fire the shortest staple (1/4 ") into soft pine wood, then you realize that it did not go all the way in, now you take the hammer and finish driving the staple in......see how easy it is. :-)

In short, this stapler is simply not a good product and definitely not up to what I normally expect from Stanley. And yes, I did have the stapler set on the "high" power setting. Unfortunately, I tossed all of the packaging thus I can't take it back so I will just throw it away and buy an Arrow brand. I hope you gain something from this review because I sure lost out on the deal.
Cheers,
Don

Bought as a gift [Posted on 2008-04-22]
Bought this for my mother for her birthday. She raves about it, she's been wanting this specific gun for a while. I'm not a power tool person but I trust her recommendation, and so should you. :)

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