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• Hammer staplers are a lot of fun to use. You just swing them like a hammer, but every time you hit, you leave behind a staple. They can deliver more force than a squeeze-handle type stapler, but positioning accuracy is at the mercy of your hammering precision.

• These are not so much fun: they apply skin staples, an alternative to sutures for closing deep cuts.

• This manual nailer works exactly like an electric or pneumatic stick nailer, except you have to provide the whack with a hammer. Nails are fed automatically from a stick, like staples in an office stapler.

• I think this can safely be called an overly complicated hammer. Squeezing the handle lightly holds a nail in the jaws under the sliding part, which you then hit with a hammer to set the nail. Or squeeze the handles more firmly and the sliding part is locked in place, allowing you to use it as a hammer in the normal way. It can also pull nails and drive screws using hex drive bits.

• Manual stapler.

• This are also opening pliers: they remove skin staples from a healed wound.

• This is the floor nailer I forgot I had when I got the cheap one at auction.

• This floor nailer drives specially-shaped nails diagonally into the tongue of tongue-and-groove flooring. I did the floor in my house without one because they are expensive, then decades later got one cheap at an auction. A case where “better late than never” is just frustrating.

• Manual Stapler

• Manual Stapler

• Manual staplers have a strong spring that does the actual whacking. The handle compresses the spring, then releases it when you finish squeezing all the way. This lets you slowly build up energy in the spring and release it suddenly.

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