Gardner Bender MSG-501 Heavy-Duty Cable Boss Staple Gun, Professional Grade, Secures (NM) Coax, & Low-Volt Cable, Red

I don’t know why there’s so many poor reviews. It works well. I removed a star because the staples you need to use are expensive, the stapler doesn’t hold a lot of staples at once, and I wish it had a belt clip. For shooting into standard pine studs it does a fine job. Outside of the few things I listed it is an excellent tool.

This cable stapler has definitely come in handy on job sites, and doing home renovations. Much easier and faster than hand nailing staples, and can easily make clean runs with one person. The down side is that is doesn't always drive staples in fully, and sometimes it folds staples over. You can drive them in with a hammer after, but the staples are thin enough that you'll often end up mashing the top onto itself without driving the legs farther into the wood.Overall, it's handy when running cable by yourself, but I'd still keep a bag of hand nail staples in the tool box if you're mounting wire to anything other than soft pine.

no fails or issues. works as it should

These are my second or third box of these particular staples so obviously I like them. The staple gun and staple combination fill a need and make installing romex and other cable much simpler. The stapler itself has a few quirks but we aren't reviewing it are we? The staples work great and are available in various length per need. The only complaint I have about them is the cost and I deducted a star for that because I think they are overpriced for all they are. I still bought them and will continue to use them as they work.

As someone who works with cabling on the regular, this is a game changer. I’ve actually recommended them to all my Electrician and Networking friends.

I use this staple gun for cat 6 cable and for 4-wire phone cable. If you can use it on flat runs it works great. If you start getting into weird angles where the base of the stapler is not flat against the surface your results will sometimes require a re-try. This is to be expected though, as these staplers are meant to be held flush against the work surface. I find that it sinks the staple completely in the builder grade pine I'm usually working with.I've tried sinking staples in the grout line of brick work and you can forget that option. You'll waste a staple and jam the gun. If this were a pneumatic stapler you might get away with that, but this simply won't work on brick, or anything you could not drive a small finishing nail into with a hammer. Of course.It is true that this stapler requires a mighty squeeze to operate. Quite a bit more force than a standard stapler, like an Arrow. I have not damaged any cable. I am careful to have the cable straight under the stapler and that's all it takes. If you let the stapler walk all over as you squeeze the handle you will have misfires and probably damage your work.For me, this stapler does just what I wanted it to do and it does it well. The staples are barbed and don't pull out easily. These staples are not going to come out on their own.I find that gripping the front of the device at the black front surface and pressing while squeezing the staple drives home perfectly every time. I would not want to have to use this thing for more than an hour at a session since it is very fatiguing to squeeze. However, I find using it is much less annoying than trying to mount those hammer-in cable clips where I usually do manage to nick the cable or bang the hammer into the area around the clip producing a poor-looking job. Besides, those clips always seem to have walked away when I'm needing to tack down cable and this red stapler is very hard to overlook.The stapler is made well for light use. It is rubbery coated plastic molded over a steel frame. As I have tried to convey, it does the job for light use.

Ive used these for about the last 15 months. My feelings about them are very mixed.The vast majority of work Ive done with them has been in newer home construction. As others have mentioned no matter how hard, clean, strait and quickly I press the trigger I cant ever get the staple all the way in. And many are crooked if they hit any dense part of lumber. Even in engineered I beams and headers they dont seem to go in well. So the method of used is to go around with the gun and a hammer and fiish them of with the hammer. Probably thousands of these in with that method.Even with that I would probably consider these useful over staples if not for the quality of the product itself. Ive bought 3 of them over the past year and a half. Each of the first 2 broke in a different way. They get dropped occasionally but tough. If a hand tool cant be dropped without breaking its worthless. After moderate use the first thing that seems to happen is the tongue that spaces the head of the stapler around the wire becomes loose and wont keep from just falling out. Then they tend to jam in different ways and the mechanism inside seems to just break in some way. I just plain dont have time to rebuild or fix a tool of this nature. Something like this should just not break that easily. Im not an ape and dont have issues with tools breaking. Not power or hand tools but this one Im on my third.I love the concept but Im back to staples. If you spend any time at all with staples they really arent much slower and you still need to use them over these anyway in many situations like stacking. Id be all on board for a much better implemented version of this tool.

Easy to load and use

the staples do not fit, unable to unload staples, fell apart, I got so frustrated I broke it with a hammer, whom ever designed this should have been forced to test every one of them till the cows come home, the worst piece of crap ever, as one of the other reviews said we should have read the reviews, never will I buy from this company again and you shouldn't either.

Works well in it's staple gun

Good product, but expensive for what it is. They're extremely bulky, not great for running cables sleek along baseboards and such. probably best to use a crown stapler for a nice clean looking install like the cable guys do.

C'est bien fait et c'est facile à maneuvrer

Comme je voulais.