Arrow Fastener ETFX50 Heavy Duty Professional Electric Staple and Nail Gun
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Product Details
Manufacturer: Arrow FasteningModel: ETFX50
Product features:
- Lightweight, compact and well balanced for comfort and control
- Heavy-duty 10-foot cord for extended reach
- Heavy-duty solid-state electronic circuitry for longer tool life
- Exclusive on/off safety trigger locks for operator safety
- Patented jam-proof mechanism for virtually no misfiring; 90-day warranty
- Old House Journal (1-year)
- Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
- This Old House (1-year)
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Arrow Fastener ETFX50 Heavy Duty Professional Electric Staple and Nail Gun
Customer Review: My ETFX 50 stapler works well...
Summary: 4 Stars
Arrow Fastener ETFX 50 Heavy Duty Professional Electric Staple and Nail Gun
I bought this staple gun for my wife to use when installing insulation as part of a whole house renovation. Her hand isn't strong enough to use a manual stapler for very long. It also works well for chair upholstering and similar chores.
Pros:
- It's sufficiently powerful to drive 9/16" staples into hardwood.
- No misfires, jams, double-staples, etc.; after firing many thousands of staples.
- Sufficiently light, well balanced, and a nice handle, to use all day with comfort.
- You can staple to the edge of the tool, since nothing protrudes beyond the "muzzle".
- The staple magazine and the locking slide is all steel. It works easily every time, and it's intuitive.
- The 10' cord results in no extension cord most of the time.
- A parts list is provided, with reasonable prices.
- The blow-molded case actually works pretty well, and protects the tool when carrying or storing. There's some room for spare staples or nails, but not much.
- Takes 6 sizes of T50 staples (1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 1/2", 9/16", 17/32").
- It's electric with a 100% duty cycle, which means it can used it all day with no breaks. Also, no air-compressor (and hose) is needed.
- It fires BN1810 nails (5/8" 18 gauge brad nails), but since I own two air-pin-nailers, we have no need for another pin nailer.
Cons:
- The trigger lock is located where your right thumb goes, if right-handed. As a result, it's easy to mistakenly set the trigger lock.
- The electric cord is plastic and very stiff, especially in cold weather. A flexible rubber cord, which nearly all top-end tools use, would be a big improvement.
- A larger magazine would have been nice.
- The tool will fire if it's empty, which it shouldn't do.
- There's a staple "view port" near the nose. But it's so small, you can't tell if there are 6 staples remaining, or 100. The tool should have a much larger/longer port, so you could see if it needs reloading before climbing a ladder, etc.
- The staple slide has to be completely removed and set aside to reload. After sliding in a new pack of staples, you reinsert the slide. A better designed stapler would work like any air nailer, where you never remove a slide from the tool.
- Several Amazon reviewers had major troubles with their stapler; from frequent jams to tool failure. It has a pathetic 90-day warranty, when one year is the industry standard. Although mine has worked fine, perhaps Arrow uses multiple factories to make it, which could explain the inconsistent quality.
Other:
- There's some recoil, but it's minor, and as long as the business end of the tool is held firmly against the wood, the staple seats all the way. Another stapler sufficiently heavy to eliminate most recoil wouldn't be as comfortable to use all day. If the tool is held weakly against the wood, the tool recoil might keep the staple from seating (i.e., operator error).
- Arrow rates this tool at 10-amp with a 14-amp surge. "Surge amps" can be misleading for tools like vacuum cleaners or circular saws, since normal running amps is the important number. However, an electric stapler's entire cycle lasts about 1/4 of a second, so surge amperage is the key indicator of power. This thing draws lots of amps; a staple hit a nail head once and tripped a 20 amp circuit breaker as a result.
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Description of Arrow Fastener ETFX50 Heavy Duty Professional Electric Staple and Nail Gun
Professional Electric Staple/Brad Nail Gun With Blow Molded Case.Staplers & Tackers Tools
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