Cable stapler?

[drew35]

Does anybody have one of these staplers that fire the insulated staples? I was wondering if they're any good, but mainly which size cables they fix, most of the blurb states twin and earth, but which size? I'm sure it wont fix 10mm t&e!!! But will it do 2.5mm t&e?

Cheers

 

[cablemonkey]

To me stapling cables is a bad idea as one slip and the cable is shagged. I did try a mates Arrow T72 Insulated Staple Wire Tacker and it was cr%p as the staple would not fix onto even the softes wood. I suppose its ok for limited access places like lofts but give me a hammer and clips any day.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

I use the arrow T59 for 1.0mm and 1.5mm when I am in confined and hard to reach areas like some loft spaces and full stretch to roof beams in a factory once.

It works really well, all I can say about the T72 cablemonkey has used, the staples must have be duffers as mine go into oak beams no problem.

I do prefer to use normal clips as it looks neater along side other clipped cables that are in view.

 

[telectrix]

i had an arrow one once, before it was nicked. as cablemonkey's post, it was crap. (and the staples were the correct arrow ones).

 

[Richard Burns]

Having spent the afternoon in a loft balancing on beams and dropping cable clips into the insulation, I had been wondering about these as well and am slightly downcast that they not be as good as advertised (what is!).
The T72 seems to indicate that it can do up to 6mm T&E, which sounds good but not if you cannot get the staples in.
Oh well.