hey what's up guys it's Kyle from RR buildings and I'm back with another
tools day today we're gonna talk about one of those niche tools that not a lot
of people have talked about and so let's just get right into it
alright guys so what we're talking about today is one of these niche tools or
niche tools I don't really know how you say that but I do know that it's one of
those tools that you don't use all the time but when you do you are thankful
that you have it and I'm talking about the Milwaukee m12 cordless stapler so
it's battery-powered and it requires like zero effort if you can pull the
trigger it's gonna shoot a staple it's gonna use
the m12 battery platform system so a lot of people are gonna already have that
it's gonna shoot t-50 staples so that's a 3/8 crown anywhere from a quarter inch
to 9/16 so that's gonna be the range of staple that it's able to shoot and it
weighs three pounds and comes in at seven and a half inches long so it's it
definitely weighs more than your standard stapler that you're gonna see
most guys carry but I don't think the weight is that noticeable for the gain
and you know just the effort that you use it's also got a dry fire lockout an
adjustable dial for depth of drive so it's got two different options or firing
modes one of them is a sequential trigger which means you just hold down
the trigger and start bump firing it and the other one is a contact actuation
which is means you got to basically put the gun to the material pull the trigger
and it shoots so that's kind of cool that you have those couple different
options you're gonna be able to shoot somewhere between 1,500 staples per
charge but that's depending obviously on what type of m12 battery you use and
it's got a belt hook a couple other cool features is that it fits easily in my
pouch so I know some people's pouches are not going to fit because they have a
small trim pouch or whatever but then you have that nice belt hook that you
can mount it on the edge of your belt so this thing is about ninety nine dollars
bear tool so definitely more money than having just a you know a standard you
know maybe one of those hand activated staplers which looks something like this
but I think it's one of those tools that you'll definitely appreciate once you
have it so you cry once wait how does this go you buy once you cry once I
think that's the saying and I think my buddy the essential craftsman is the one
that I heard that from I go check his channel out if you would I like his
saying because I kind of feel that there's a lot of tools out there that
they do cost a lot of money you buy it once you cry once you get
over and then for the rest of that tools life you appreciate that you own it so
let's go ahead and I'll show you some of these features that I'm talking about
we've got first before most the belt hook this is going to be you know right
here very visible we've got this adjustable depth knob dial whatever so
it's two-sided you can see that if you spin it this way it's going to give you
more shooting power back this way less shooting power I mean you have - Plus
pretty simple one thing I didn't talk about but as you just give the trigger a
slight little trigger pull you're gonna get a battery indicator so we've got a
nice light up there there is not an LED light on this so you know I know a lot
of tools are coming out they all got LED light-up spotlights on them I don't
think that's super necessary some of the other features I didn't talk about are
these molding little bumpers and even on the corners here everything is very well
liked I guess molded so that when it's on a surface it kind of you know is
sticky for one so if you're up on the roof it's not gonna slide down very
easily also it's going to protect your surfaces not gonna scratch it all up the
belt hook is removable or swappable you can go either side if you're a lefty
or like me I like to hook it on my right side and then it's just right there
ready for me to go one of the nice things is you've got this viewing window
here so you can see where your staplers or your staples are so I'm about out of
staples right now the way you add staples is pretty standard just got this
nice little spring system here you drop in the staples upside down you can fit
like one clip a full clip of staples in here here you can see your your dry fire
lock out so if I don't have any staples in here you see how that doesn't go
that's not going to allow me to try to shoot into material and penetrate with a
couple holes or anything it only works
when you have staples in there so that's a cool feature and other than that man I
mean this is a very basic tool but this is what you know typically you're going
to compare it to and honestly when Dewalt came out with this this thing
weighs like next to nothing literally I swear
it feels I mean its carbon fiber composite I don't know really what that
means looks cool it sounds cool it doesn't weigh hardly anything and it
just works really well this is a really good hand stapler I don't remember the
price of this but I will go ahead and now I'll tag it in the corner here so
you guys can go check it out if you want I totally recommend this stapler but
I'll be honest I hardly ever grab it I just go ahead and go right for the the
corded powered one because maybe I'm crazy but I just like power right I mean
it's easier so let's go ahead and let's show you actually what I love about this
stapler and some of the demos and I'll even compare some of the other typical
staplers that you're gonna see on site and guys that are using them and I
always get the feedback from you guys is what I love too and the comments like
hey it's way quicker to use a slap tacker it's way quicker to do this
better that's fine guys like I am NOT the Bible okay I'm not telling you what
is or what isn't I'm not only telling you what I've learned from my experience
and I love for you guys to engage down in the comments that's what it's all
about is for us to all learn so let's go ahead and show you some of the materials
that I will typically use this stapler for first and foremost this is house
wrap now I don't usually use this up in the Gables of my buildings but I do use
it on a lot of our insulated shops and what I love about this is first you know
what let's do this this is a slap tacker do a fast very standard like this is to
me one of those staplers that just seems like industry standard if you're a
roofer or really doing anything it does a super-fast job but there's some
downsides to this first off let me show you kind of what it and how it works you
use the the weight there's a lot of weight up here in the head and as you
slap it down on your material the weight triggers the mechanism inside this
pushes up you can see kind of the motion there and it shoots a staple out so I'll
just show you kind of how it works okay so this is actually a great example
great example as to why I don't like this stapler you can see how much it
drove that staple
see how much it drove that staple in but now with me you know not doing as hard
now they're recessed so depending on how you hit this material you're moving
really fast you get a lot of inconsistencies so if you want to get a
lot of nice accurate you know staples in your material or you're up in a corner
something you're gonna use a stapler like this and it's not that hard to use
this has come a long way it used to be the old Stanley T 50 staplers that I
remember growing up with my dad you had to like put all of your weight into them
and they had a big spring well this is the Walt one is super ganar KY think
that's what they kind of touted and we're really proud of and it's super
lightweight and it does a really good job
very consistent we're not over driving them I don't think it's ever gonna over
drive them but sometimes it does under drive them and you don't have any
adjustment for depth of drive on this I don't yeah I don't don't see anything at
all and so that's where we come in to current battery powered Milwaukee
stapler I'm gonna go ahead and shoot it okay now let's assume I don't like the
way that this is in there maybe I wanted to drive deeper maybe I want it to be
less less deep I can adjust that I can either go less deep or deeper and what
this is really important for is when I'm doing things like house wrap or felt
paper up on a roof I can make sure I can make sure that every one of these
staples is perfect I don't want to go too deep so I'm blowing out my house
wrap because then when the width the first wind comes it's gonna pull right
through that staple I want a nice consistent depth of drive and that's
that's either when you're on a roof
like look at the amount of I guess damage to the material that it does
because you're hitting this big shoe surface and if you're not hitting it
perfect which let's be honest when you're in a production mode perfect is
not usually what's happening and so you're hitting the edge of your shoe
here and that's damaging your material this is slower no doubt in my mind I
don't want to have a bunch of comments down below about how much slower it is
but I will say it has a bump fire mode and I'll show you how fast that is so
first what you do listen to this okay you hear that it kind of actuated inside
it is now engaged now that my finger is on the trigger it's in a bump fire mode
now that means all I have to do oh it died on me okay I'm out of staples I
don't know what I'm doing but I don't have many more staples but look at how
consistent every one of these staples were and I don't know about you I don't
really feel the need to have to go a whole lot faster than that especially
when I'm doing house wrap when I'm doing a fell paper on a roof yeah it's all
about just rolling that out going pretty quickly but man I have just really loved
this stapler for that obviously like all tools there are you know downsides to
what they have to offer one of them being the weight of the tool no doubt
when you're looking at these two this thing weighs next to nothing it's it's
you know it's smaller right I mean it's smaller it's probably a lot less weight
that you're gonna notice the other thing that I wanted to show you is that I
don't even know if this is gonna work this is a piece of aluminum and I don't
deal a ton in aluminum but I know a lot of you guys that are doing soffit trims
or facial whatever the DeWalt it's gonna go through no problem right it's gonna
do a pretty good job don't even try to use the duo fast it's gonna make all
sorts of you know dents around your material but the Milwaukee I just feel
like you have a lot of control over the way that it sets your staple so that you
can get the best smoothest job you gonna be as consistent using the DeWalt
because it doesn't have the Adiel adjustment for your death you're not
however going to be able to shoot metal so this is 29 gauge steel that I
typically use this is a piece of like wainscot trim and if I were to just put
it over here say now the staple is jammed up in the nose piece here or
whatever so I'm gonna have to deal with that which no big deal I think it's
going to come out pretty easy if my fingers can get in there so there you go
you're not going to use this to shoot metal but aluminum down to whatever
other material that you can think of probably in a less I guess thickness or
gauge than that is gonna work just fine so there you go guys
I am never saying that this Milwaukee m12 stapler takes care of all your other
staplers and you should throw them all away because there's a place for the
slap tacker that's going to be used when you just need speed you're not worried
about the quality or the depth of drive you're just gonna lay some asphalt
shingles and you just want to get your felt paper down super quick because the
rains coming right that's when you're gonna pull that out as far as using you
know one of these I don't know that I would ever use this over the corded or
the cordless version the Milwaukee just because man it's effortless
it doesn't require any effort and it doesn't take up a lot of space in my
pouch and it doesn't really weigh that much so I'm always curious to hear what
you guys think are you even using the m12 stapler did you even know about it
because it's one of those niche tools and I feel like that is where these tool
companies should go I think that they should be looking at these tools that
are a little bit not mainstream so you know get away from the circular saw
upgrades and the drill upgrades those things are already phenomenal let's take
some of those tools that you don't use every day but let's get a great solution
so that when you do use them you're thankful that like you have them and
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