Staplers

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Staple Gun

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Staple Gun

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Synonyms: DE: Handtacker, Nagler
Type: hand tool
Material: wood, soft sheet materials
(e.g. paper or fabric)
Location: Handheld Wood Tool Area

A manual staple gun drives staples straight into a substrate without folding them, and is therefore not limited to a certain thickness of the wood you attach your sheet material to. Use it where small nails would work, but you want to be faster... Uses type 53 staples of length 6-14 mm.

Office Staplers

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Office Staplers

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Synonyms: DE: Heftgerät, "Tacker"
Type: office hand tool
Material: paper
Location: Common Room, Office

Office staplers are most commonly used to bind stacks of paper with staples that are driven through by punching the lever and bent around by a small "anvil" on the tool's foot.