Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by Charles Curley : Great low end stapler

Got this redo the seats on my jetskis. Works great. No more pushing like crazy to compensate for the kickback on electric staplers. I redid one seat w/ an electric and had probably 10% bad inserts. The seat base is pretty thick plastic and the staples loved to turn if you didn't give it major push when firing, but even then sometimes wouldn't go. No worries with this guy. Did a big seat and didn't have a single bad insert. Just hold this in place and let it rip, no upper body workout required. I've probably shot about 700 staples and it hasn't jammed yet or let a staple turn strange (except when I had bad angle, basically my fault). I'd definitely buy this again.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by Sara M. Feldhaus : Surebonder Pneumatic Staple Gun

Staple gun is fine. The staples shipped with staple gun did not fit. Disappointed!!!! Had to go out and buy different staples.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by B. Faulkner : What a great buy

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Fine Wire Staple Gun with Carrying Case
Picked this up for 28.60 shipped. I loaded standard, easy to find, Arrow T-50 narrow crown staples in and set my compressor to 100 psi (max it's rated for) since that is what my roofing gun likes to run at. This way I can run both guns off one tank setting on the roof. I sent two drops of pneumatic gun oil down the inlet. I also added a ball swivel connector (Lowes or Amazon) so that the hose flops around more freely off the gun. I then ran 200 staples through it into very old and hard fir and some super old oak at an unrealistic pace (fast as I and it could go) and it only fired a blank twice. What a great little machine. I need to restretch Harley seat leather on a plastic pan so I tested it on an old plastic pan with perfect results.

I'll add to this review for durability ratings after I've done an entire house roof with felt and batt insulation later this year, but with it's compact and sturdy construction I think it'll be fine for those applications. I have a lot of expensive quality tools, and this inexpensive little gun is going to probably turn into one of my favorites because it'll remind me that now and then you don't have to break the bank to get something that works the way it should. Great buy.

UPDATE: ONE YEAR AND ONE HOUSE LATER. This tool has never let me down and has been used extensively. It spent a lot of time on the roof getting tossed around. Insulation is a breeze - a standard hammer tacker is just too brute force around insulation. Bunch of other little projects. Tough little guy. It has jammed only once in thousands of staples and it was due to the air pressure being much too low, not the gun. If you shoot a blank, its about 99.9% certain you didn't have the little tongue depressed all the way.

Only one problem - this thing shoots staples so quickly and easily that you tend to blast through more staples than you need to.

UPDATE 21Mar2010: Still banging staples, and a pleasure to hook up to the hose. What a great little gun. Did that Harley seat modification and it worked fine sinking staples in the plastic seat pan. Have had three 'all-stop' jams in not less than 20,000 staples. One was the previously mentioned low air pressure. The others give the same result (a little piece of staple stuck on the firing pin). It is very obvious but it takes a little operation to pick that little wedged piece out of there. A non-issue really as the jams were simple to clear and who knows why the staples exploded... did they hit a nail, or was that particular staple a reject? I'll take one of those jams every now and then for a roughly thirty dollar gun, and 20k staples.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by Stratixman "Gadgeteer" : A Great Stapler

I purchased this Surebonder 9600 stapler to use for completing an exterior remodeling job involving a lot of aluminum trim. I considered electric staplers but I needed the ability to finely regulate the striking force to make sure that the staples didn't shoot all the way through the aluminnum as well as that they didn't end up getting only partially sunk. Electric staplers don't provide very good regulation compared to an pneumatic/air tools. This stapler worked great. Worth every penney of its ridiculously cheap price. As far as I know Surebonder is the only company making an air powered stapler that is compatible with standard Arrow T50 fine wire staples. I highly recommend this product.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by Bruce Cohen "Bruce at Get Bruce dot Com" : The Best Little Stapler Ever!

Forgive me for gushing over the quality of this fine tool.
The only bad thing I can say about it, is that it's made
in China. I would not have purchased it if I had known.

As far as the look, feel, balance, utility, reliability,
performance and accuracy, it's perfect.

Really.

I have a total of seven pneumatic fastener guns for
nails, brads and staples of all sizes and types.

Some expensive, like my magnesium framing gun, some
less so, like my coil roofing nail gun.

None of them are as nice, or work as well as this
Surebonder.

It's a steal at under $30.00, and after having used
one all day a few times now, I would gladly pay $100
for the thing if that's what they cost.

Using any manual or hammer, or even electrical
stapler is going to wear out your hands on a large
job, and none are nearly as accurate.

This little beauty puts the staple exactly where
you want it to go, each and every time.

It's quiet (still wear hearing and eye protection)
and has a directional air exhaust you can point
away from your face and work, just like on the
expensive big guns.

It reliably puts down staples of all lengths all
the way down into hard wood.

I recently used it on a Tyvek job (homewrap)
around a small casita, covering between 500 and
600 square feet. Two people had to do it,
since the rolls are 9 feet tall. Both of us
loved it, and were glad for it.

There is no learning curve to handling the gun.
Yes, read the manual and instructions.
But as soon as you pick it up, you will know
the staples are your friend today.

If you are going to use any decent part of a
box of staples, get this. It will pay for itself
in just an hour or so, and save your hands, not
just your time and money.

I'm actually looking forward to the next two tyvek
jobs now.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by J. Nalazek : Nice Price - Very good performance

I purchased this Surebonder 9600 stapler to secure canvas to frames for a painting class I am taking. I used the stapler to build 4 frames and the stapler works very well. The price on this stapler just cannot be beat.

I did have a couple of instances where the stapler did not shoot a staple when fired, but I did not have any instances where the stapler jammed. I performed a test on this stapler where I mixed 1/4" and 3/8" staples in the magazine at the same time and the stapler worked without any problems.

I like the feature of the stapler where you can see the number of staples you have remaining. I especially like the fact that this stapler takes the standard T50 staples, which are available at almost any store.

I highly recommed this stapler to you and I have already recommended it to my friends and coworkers.

Surebonder 9600 Pneumatic Narrow Crown Stapler with Carrying Case
Review by P. Albritton "Slablog.net" : Pretty Good, Not Top-A-The-Line

I got this based on other good reviews. It does okay for the cost. I have used T-50 staples with it into soft wood and if the air pressure goes down the staples tend to hang up in the tip. Instead of not working at all, it will just give a wimp's kick and lodge a staple. Then I have to unhook the air, open it up and pry out the lodged staple. My solution is to just make sure I have optimum air pressure at all times, or expect it to hang up. Proper oiling as suggested also helps.