STINGERCH38A Autofeed Cap Staple Hammer Tacker, 1" Caps, 3/8" Staples for Roofing Underlayment, Housewrap, and Insulation (STINGER 0136401)

I am a do-it-yourselfer re-siding my house. After removing the old siding, we needed to apply housewrap. with the Stinger CH38A, my son and I did the whole job in a long afternoon. Not only does the result look better than what I see on most of the new houses being built around here, but the wrap has withstood several severe thunderstorms without so much as a staple coming loose. The Stinger is simple to use and works like a charm.When I considered buying this tool, I was nearly turned off by the reviews, which seemed to be split almost evenly between those who loved it and those who hated it. My experience: yes, if you get in an awkward spot and cannot swing it to hit squarely, it may fail to feed a cap or fail to cut the cap free. For me, that happened maybe 1 out of 50 staples. For a contractor, that may be unacceptable. For me, it wasn't even a nuisance. Generally, the Stinger was as simple to use as a hammer.If you are applying roofing felt or housewrap to your own house, you have to have this tool. For $70, if you threw it away after you were done, it still would have been worth five times what you paid for it.

I bought it hoping it would help tarp roofs faster. The staples pull right put though. It would have been great if it took 1/2 inch staples. Its probably best suited for house wrap, laying felt or something like that. The green tabs dont always break off like they should causing waste. Overall a decent product.

Does the job and is easy to fill and use. Sometimes it starts spitting out caps with no staples, other times it doesn't cut the cap loose and I pull out a string of wasted caps. Can be awkward to get into corners, etc. The rivets on the bottom plate tear the paper if I'm not careful.

The stapler was not too difficult to load, but the plastics tabs don't feed well through the stapler. The tabs are connected poorly, and we wasted about 25% of the tabs when 2 or 3 tabs would break off every 3rd or 4th staple. We encountered strong winds, and less than half of the staples that did work, came off. We switched to roofing nail/tabs that we had to hammer individually, but worked much better. If you buy one of these, use it right away so you have time to return it.

This product is good for small simple jobs, a staple here and there. I used it to put up my house wrap, it was hit and miss … tab would not feed or tabs didn’t break and when you pulled back it would pull half the roll of tabs out… great concept that can use a bit more tweaking

I'm a contractor and although I don't do much roofing, I do have occasional need to cap nail something (plastic tarps, roofing underlayment, etc.) I don't use cap nails enough to invest in a cap air nailer, but this little hammer tacker is perfect for me. I've use about 2 rolls of caps so far, and really haven't had any issues. I've used it on white oak beams and standard construction lumber. If you strike the tool firmly on the surface and hit it flat, there's no problem with the tool functioning as designed. A few times (like when I missed the wood under the tarp, or when used at an awkward angle making it hard to hit the surface straight) it did feed a few extra caps, but I view that as "user error" rather than a problem with the tool. It's one of those tools that I wish I'd bought years ago! I love it!

The device was constantly jamming. The staples and caps were inconsistent in coming out. I lost a lot of caps because the staples were not feeding correctly. They refunded my money with no problem. Great company to do business with. I bought the Stinger Stapler and it worked perfect. Same company so I am not sure why the discrepancy in quality, but don't waste your money on the "Hammer" BUY their "Stapler."

This is a perfect tool, as long as it is utilized within its design parameters.Meaning, one MUST strike flat surface as large as BOTH contact patches 1"x3/4".One is obviously the staple, the second is the separation blade. Look at the bottom and see how it works.If one can not contact surfaces squarely, proper separation will be hindered.Be certain with your striking of the surface, with more force than typical setting staples is needed to cut the plastic.It is easy to rewind plastic if one practices.There are two locking mechanisms, and be sure to tighten spool first. Purchased for basement ceiling application of Reflectix to the joists, on top of r12 foil and subfloor heating.Worked easily, when accuracy was maintained. Miss joist partially with the cutting blade, you pull out the plastic.During the learning curve, loss was 5-8%. Now <3% and this is for ceiling work.Chicken coop will be the next use. Tests of holding chicken wire compared to naked staples...5x stronger.I followed with a 3lb hammer(wide head) to insure setting. None appeared loose but set a little deeper with light contact.I am going to diamond file the cutting edge before chicken wire assault.

First of all- NO any instruction how to operate,load etc. The cap get stuc, not cut one by one, some cote on 10 cups in air... By me good idea, but not perfect yet.

Great for putting up Tyvek

Very disappointed. Difficult to use. Jammed often, eventually had to go back to our original tacker..