Hell, YEAH! People laugh at Milton in Office Space as if he’s some psychotic, OCD engineer, which he is, but he’s RIGHT, dammit! I have a Boston and a Swingline and the Boston won’t go through more than three sheets of paper reliably while my Swingline will go through twenty easily and forty if I push it.
Why anybody would buy anything but a Swingline can only be explained if one assumes that people are cheap, lazy, and hate everybody else. Which they are, every last one of them. Since I didn’t pay for either of them and have no financial stake in continuing to possess them I’d casually lose the Boston onto somebody else’s desk except my laziness and animosity towards everybody else are caught in a deathmatch.
Swingline has always been the standard. It was the first “drop-in” stapler. And it is Chicago’s greatest product. (Um, next to the Reader, of course.) Here’s one reason they’re so great:
I bought my Swingline 99 in 1970. It was on display next to copies of the runaway best seller “Steal this book” by Abbie Hoffman. The Avacodo paint on it has a few scars from rough handling, but it still staples great; first time every time.
Yeah, umm, we have some new threads starting, and we need all the space we can get. So if you all could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down to the storage area, that would be terrific, OK?
I was a Swingline fan until I used my current office’s Max Stapler. It’s expensive compared to the others, but it is amazing. It punches through 30 or more sheets without a complaint, and never a bent staple.
Now that you all have figured out there’s a stapler that WORKS…
…can you get started on the 3 hole punch? Because every motherfucking one of those I’ve ever owned was a piece of shit.
Don’t tell me it’s Acco that makes a good one. That’s what I’ve got, and it’s only use is as a blunt instrument. More than about 3 sheets of paper and it goes belly up on me. :mad:
Amen to that! If I print anything that needs to be put into a binder, I’ll sooner scrounge up the 3-hole paper, put it into the printer and re-print than scuffle with a paper squisher that’s erroneously labeled as a “punch”
Hey, dropzone, how’s it going? I’m gonna have to go ahead and sort of agree with you.
I have right here a grey Swingline 27 stapler, evidently filched from IBM (it has “IBM” on the front bit) during the 80’s. Not only does it staple well, it would be quite useful as a blunt weapon should we have an intruder in the house. So unlike the pathetic plastic jobbies I often found at work.
I agree, if only I had a 3 hole punch analogous to this vintage workhorse!
Swinglines are made in NYC, at least the older ones that occasionally worked.
Rufus is right. Bostitch makes the best staplers bar none. Others are a horrible mix of plastic and crap metal, or Swingline too much metal, too much weight, not enough performance. The Bostitch is the perfect combination of lightweight, strength and simple aesthetic beauty.
I’ve got an Acco Mutual 250 hole punch, looks like an antique, got it 6 years ago from a guy at IBM who was retiring after 40+ years, so it could be pretty old. This punch is dynamite, it’s got 11 fixed punchers, you select which 3 (or fewer) you want to use, and it’s solid steel, I think it’ll work for an awful long time.
And I couldn’t agree more with Liberal on the SF4 Speedpoint staples, they are a TON better than standard staples, and work like a champ in my plain old Bates stapler. Got a stapler problem? Try good staples.
Whoa, bro! I may be obsessive but there have to be limits. I’d have to put the Italian beef sandwich, Jack Benny, and the Chicago School of Architecture ahead of a stapler.
My mother actually owns a 3-hole punch that works well and consistently. The thing is made of thick grey steel and weighs about 5 pounds, and I’ve never had it seize up or get jammed or fail to punch cleanly through a stack of paper. Unfortunately, I don’t know what brand it is, or even where to find one, as my mother snarfed it from the nursing department she worked at in the '70s (it even still says on it “please return to nursing department”), but rest assured, somebody at one time made a 3-hole punch that worked.
