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Heavy duty Sharpshooter. Flush nose design allows stapling close to edges. Dual power for hard and soft materials. All metal drive channel for better penetration. Safety trigger lock. Solid state circuitry and double insulation. Contoured grip for extra c
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- 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
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By I. Gomes (USA)
12-2-09
Lack of less details products information's and performances. Its like toy. Useless. Waste of money.
This kind of products good to buy from Hardware store. Mark
By Stephen Tashiro (Las Cruces, NM United States)
The Stanley TRE550 works as well (i.e. as poorly) as other manual and electric staple guns and brad drivers that I have used. A common characteristic of these tools is that you must hold the base absolutely flat against the work and press the tool down firmly as you staple, otherwise the staple is not driven all the way down. It is difficult to determine by sense of touch whether the base is flat against the work. You may swear that you have positioned the tool correctly, but when you examine its posture visually you find that you have the back of the base slightly off the work or have it tilted to one side. The TRE550 has a narrow base so the problem is worse with the TRE550 than with some other staplers. The work piece must be firmly supported. For example, if you are stapling into a board that is slightly crooked and it is not touching the work table directly under your staple, the staple may not go all the way in. As other reviewers have noted, if you want staples driven flush with the work (with this or other electric or manual staplers) you should have a hammer handy to finish the job.
Unlike similar Arrow brand staplers, the TRE550 has a safety mechanism that prevents the tool from firing unless the nose is in contact with the work. It will still fire when the magazine is empty of staples and this leaves a slight indentation. The TRE550 is not the stapler to buy if you want to do rapid fire stapling. The safety is useful if you are worried about accidentally pressing the trigger and shooting a staple through the air.
I have used electric and manual staplers to attach artists canvas to wooden stretchers made of poplar. The TRE550 works as well as the electric Arrow ETF50BPN, the Stanley Manual TR150HL and an old model Arrow manual stapler that I use. Out of 10 staples, you have to finish driving one or two of them with a hammer. All staplers that I have used jam occasionally. The jams are not hard to clear. You open the magazine and the mangled staple usually falls out of the tool. To avoid jams, don't use small groups of staples that have broken away from a chain of staples, as these chains come fresh from a box.
While doing work on a roof, I was stapling sheets of polyethylene as a temporary cover. The staples were being driven into several sheets of tar paper that covered the top of concrete. I accidentally drove one staple into an area where the tar paper had peeled off and the staple hit the concrete. This broke the stapler. The TRE550 stopped firing at all. When I shook it, I could hear a loose part sliding up and down. I took the tool apart. (This probably voids any warranty. One of the screws requires a security torx.) The loose part was the metal band that drives the staple. There is a spring with two long arms and one of the arms has popped out of a hole in the band. Putting the spring back fixed the loose part. However the TRE550 was still dead electrically. There is a small perfboard inside the tool with some electrical components. The driving mechanism consists of a coil of wire and a piston that slides up and down within it. My voltmeter showed that that the resistance of the coil was 1.2 Ohms, so it was not shorted. I could measure 120 V AC coming into the tool. (The problem was not that the saftey switch was left open. I put the tool back together to test it.) I conclude some of the electric components on the perfboad have gone bad.
Checking the Stanley website, there are no replacement parts listed for this tool. The electronic components on the perfboard do have standard markings and it looks like a simple circuit.
The TRE550 has a knob that turns to adjust the power of the tool. Like the adjustments on other electric or manual staplers that I have used, this adjustment doesn't do much. With the tool apart you find the knob controls how far the piston rises. The knob has a shaft with a wedged shaped end that acts like a simple cam. As you turn the knob the piston is allowed to rise more or less. A complete revolution of the knob brings the setting back to where it was.
I rate this tool as two stars out of five to indicate it is a somewhat below average electric stapler. This is due to its narrow base. It did break easily, but whether other electric staple guns might have broken under the same conditions, I cannot say.
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But not for jobs requiring some fastening power. I used it for a few carpet jobs but still ended up using my hammer and screwdriver to fully bury the staples. My old Arrow T50m manual fastener drove staples more powerfully than this. This one is good to have around for lightweight jobs where you just want to bang some staples into fairly soft material with little effort, but thats about it. 2 stars for nice clean design with on/off switch for safety and being a handy tool.
By Paul A. Mccloud
I bought the TRE550 to use installing crown molding around the soffitt on my front porch. The molding is soft 3/8" pine and the facia board is poplar. This unit is supposed to handle 1/2 and 5/8" brads but it could not set 5/8" brads without leaving them sticking up around 1/4". The last thing I wanted while working overhead was having to try to set all these little brads with a hammer and set punch. I have returned this unit to Lowes and ordered the "more powerful" TRE650 which is supposed to set up to 1 1/4" brads in most woods. I'm hoping it will at least handle 5/8" brads on the crown molding job.
By C. Streit (Minneapolis)
I tested it using Arrow T50 5/16 inch staples in OAK wood. It would drive these staples flush to the surface if I put at least 10 lbs of pressure on stapler and had it level. Level being defined as the back of the stapler touching the wood too. If I lifted the back of the stapler off the wood it wouldn't drive the staple flush. Comparing this electric stapler to my manual heavy duty Arrow stapler, I would rate the driving ability the same.
I would suggest using two hands on the stapler to get good driving performace.
The Stanley TRE 550 electric is rated at 10amps. I tested power consumption with my kill a watt meter and found that it uses zero watts when plugged in and turned on. Each time I fired a staple the meter would jump to 22 watts and quickly return to zero. The power setting high vs low made no difference.
Unfortunately I don't have any longer staples or brads to test.
One sweet thing is that you can drive staples as fast as you can pull the trigger and move. I easily drove 10 staples in 10 sec. Fun, fun, fun. If you have a big project or a weak hand, electric is the way to go.
I paid about $25.
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