Easy to use and load staples, gets into tight spaces. The variable depth adjuster is a nice feature. Never misfired.

Held up well for a small job.

I've seen some glowing reviews of this staple/nail gun, and have to think that the author's are a bit inexperienced.

Yes, this is an adequate gun for a small job. It feeds and shoots reliably - not one misfire in 12500 staples thus far. It's a solid gun, and comes packed like the Harbor Freight "Central Pneumatic" guns, and I have a few of those, so that's not necessarily a negative. The gun itself is equivalent to the $23 "2-1" 18 gauge gun at H.F., bolt for bolt, so I'm sure it's made at the same Chinese factory, albeit with the flooring plastic attachment. So, again, it's solid. I just put in 12,500 3/4" staples in flooring underlayment.

For the negatives:

1) Construction is just unnecessarily cheap. The plastic nose pops off with any amount of pressure, so just discard it after the second or third time. (You might get marks on your material without it, from the metal forks it covers, but it's going to come off the gun every 10 minutes anyway.)

2) The gun doesn't maintain consistent drive depth. Either the staples blow through the material, countersinking too deeply, or it leaves them high, requiring a nail set and hammer to set them down. The depth adjustment wheel under the trigger is of little help. The compressor I'm using is well regulated, and I run about 95 PSI through the gun. Without the plastic nose, there are two metal forks that act as both safety and depth measurement, and they will compress into the wood when firing the gun. If you have a light touch, the staples can be too high, if you press a little harder, you end up blowing them too deeply into the wood. It's a real nuisance that you wouldn't have to deal with a better quality gun. (Try tapping down 1/3 of 1200 staples, and you'll get an idea of how much of a nuisance it was. It wasn't quite that bad, but on some sheets, it cost me an additional 15 minutes tap the high staples down. If my wife used the gun, we had to spend 10 minutes readjusting the depth.)

3) Again, as with #1, construction is cheap. There are two plastic adjustment knobs for the floor attachment, and one was missing. (Fixed it with a bolt from a local hardware store, but still ... cheap.)

Summary: It's a $23 Harbor Freight gun with a $10 plastic flooring attachment.

My advice: I had the chance to pick up a reconditioned BOSTITCH or SENCO gun for about $40 or $50 more, and if I did this again, that's the direction I'd go. This gun just has too many defects for a flooring project. Buy a better used one, or put out the bucks for a new SENCO and sell it after your project.

This stapler will get the job done at a good value. My gripe is that its adjustable when you use the flooring attachment and mine would not tighten where i wanted it set so i had to do 340 square feet with it moving freely meaning i had to square up each time i shot a staple. Added a day to my work

worked well on 9/16 hardwood, drove fasteners deep enough.