You can still find gems.

[Belmont31R]

Meet the Swingline 747. We've battled cheap plastic staplers at home for years. One would work for 5 months and quit. Always felt like junk.

The 747 is something you can knock someone out with. No more plastic or trying to staple a packet only to discover your plastic POS won't cut it.

And Costco has them for less than $12. Less than Amazon Prime.

[C-grunt]

Didn't know you were a stapler collector.

[C-grunt]

Office Space Milton stapler original: http://youtu.be/Vd4fj9Efl4s

[Belmont31R]

I knew the jokes would come. You'll still get one. I've envied a nice metal stapler you can trust. The 747 is it. 15 pages are a breeze. It laughs at 15 pages.

[SteyrAUG]

But is it available in red?

[3 AE]

Haven't become one with the #747, but on the ship I'm working on, we're using the U.S. Made Swingline #94-41 and it's good to go up to 20 sheets. BUT, and I know you shouldn't start a sentence with BUT, but if you want to put the fear of God into a stack of papers, we use the Swingline Model #90010. This badboy will make 20-120 sheets piss in their pants when you put the hammer down. It's our go to stapler when you absolutely, positively, have to bind a book the old fashion way! God, how I love manual, mechanical advantage to get the job done. I believe they use this stapler in third world countries to attach corrugated roofing prior to and after a typhoon!

http://www.webofficemart.com/Product...hopping_engine

[3 AE]

But is it available in red?

Why, yes it does!

http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/of...w&gclsrc=aw.ds

[streck]

I have one at the house and a plastic Swingline 646 at work. I won't give a co worker an opportunity to steal the 747. Sitting next to the 646 is a high capacity 77701 that I use to beat the shit out of stapler thieves.

I am a machine geek and can appreciate a good stapler just like a good German gun....

[Belmont31R]

But is it available in red?

Yes. On amazon with prime.

[Ick]

Interesting topic. I recently purchased a #747 after being disappointed by the #8784x and "PaperPro one finger".

These new plastic "assisting" staplers seem to only excel on a mid-range quantity of paper. They seem to work fine at first but eventually start to mutilate and over-puncture when stapling only a few pages. They also seem to begin to fail at 20+ pages even though they are rated for more than 20.

After using the #747 it does "earn" all the positive reviews I found of it. I DO continue to find myself UNSATISFIED by my stapling experience. I am unable to replicate my office stapler experience from 20 years ago. In those days I rarely remember such trouble with a consistent predictable results. Things just seemed to work better then, and we are talking massive quantities of paper in the 80s and 90s.

Alas, I suspect I know the source of my deteriorating experience: The quality of staples.

Unfortunately I don't have an old pack of staples to compare, but it sure seems to me that a thinner staple and a lower-grade metal contribute to the stapler woes.

Agreed? Fortunately as time progresses a stapler becomes less and less important in a paperless world.

Looking for metallurgical view of things here.