This had one Job, and it succeeded.
My house is a drafty nightmare. Mostly around the door frames, I've already caulked the crud out of the windows, and even the door frames themselves, but, given the age of the house and Mississippi humidity, the doors themselves don't always provide a perfect seal. SO... I bought thermal door curtains to do the job and negate warping and shifting. I staple them to the frame, since I'm not selling this house, and I like "arts and crafts" and modding things to work for my needs. The problem is, manual staple guns are terrible, you need to not only apply constant pressure, but also need great grip strength as well. Pros: -It's easy to load -USB C charging. THOUGH, I'm guessing, haven't read the instructions, DO NOT PUT THIS ON A QC or PD port. Use a PowerIQ (ANKER) or something that maxes out at like 2A maximum, since something tells me this only uses about 500mA to charge. -Powerful driving force. This worked even on the synthetic/plastic wood on my back doors without issue. -You can better LINE up your staples. Thanks to the safety mechanism, where you have to push a bar in, in order to fire off a staple, means you can really feel where that staple should land. While the bar has a decent amount of resistance to it, I did learn that you can assist it without losing a lot of power and still getting clean shots, by tilting it up like no more than 2 degrees. Makes depressing that bar a lot easier. -Light trigger. While yes, the safety bar, is hard to press in, it's made up for how easy the trigger is to pull. Cons: -Small staple capacity. It's not taking a standard row of Arrow or Stanley t50s that you buy at Lowe's/Walmart/etc, unlike the manual guns. You're breaking about 10-15 off of each set. So, if you're doing what I'm doing, it's going to be a lot of reloading. -It does have hard time on harder woods. Like the door frame, while a synthetic plastic, is softer than my custom made front "RUSTIC" wood door (that are also SUPER DRAFTY, they look nice and came with the house. It didn't do a clean job there. Conclusion: All I wanted this to do is STAPLE, and make it easy. It succeeded at that, greatly. While I'm used to these ASIAN staple guns only holding 50, instead of what seems to be the more standard American 67. Isn't super annoying, but still annoying since you do end up with a lot of "bits". It did its job and as a result can't be happier. Read more
