Amazon.com: Hitachi N5024A2 1″ Wide Crown Stapler, 16 Gauge (Discontinued by the Manufacturer) : Everything Else

This is my second Hitachi wide crown stapler. I returned the first to Amazon and received a 2nd unit. I returned the 1st because the trigger leaked air when actuating. I thought it was just a single defect but I have the same issue with the replacement stapler as with the first stapler, leaking air from the trigger. The stapler works fine, no issues excepting the trigger defect. I own 2 other Hitachi nailers that work great and am disappointed with this air leak issue. Wake up Hitachi, your loosing customers!

Very satisfied, rough choice between the Makita and the Hitachi sold me ., but the longer Guarantee and lighter weight with Hitachi sold me. Besides I used Hitachi Framing guns 20 years ago on the job 10 hours a day with very good service. It’s no wonder you rarely see a Duofast framing gun any more. I used to have 5 framers and two coil nailers and a wide crown – all Duofast. I had about 20 pneumatic guns and at least 15 were Duofast, and heck you can’t even get a Duofast fixed nowdays. Yes I highly recommend the Hitachi Wide crown stapler and any other Hitachi tools. I also have three Hitachi Cordless 18 volt lithium ion drill drivers and two Hitachi 18 volt lithium ion 1/4″ Impact drivers, which I can purchase parts for and rebuild. One of my older drill drivers and impact needed a trigger switch (DC voltage control & forward/ reverse switch. It’s not good to leave them outside for extended periods of time. Once again and I’ll stop -VERY HAPPY WITH HITACHI

This is a 26mm crown stapler, not 1 inch. Normal 1 inch staples are 25mm, and will not fit. If there were staples that for it (even hitachi 1 inch staples are 25mm), it looks like it might do a good job.

This is my first air powered fastener of any kind, so my review on it will be from that perspective.

I found it to be powerful, easy to use, surprisingly light and fast.

It is a very specialized tool, meaning it’s hard to find staples for it locally, but you can find them here on Amazon.

I suggest going with the Eagle company, as I had problems with prebena.

Read the reviews carefully [if they haven’t shed them somehow, they do shed them!] on buying staples, it can be tricky, this gun needs the Senco Style staples, if it doesn’t say “Senco” don’t buy it!!!, even if it’s the same exact size staple you gun uses, there’s like 2 or 3 different types of staples of the same size that can trip you up, getting stuck with 10k staples you can’t use is no fun.

Oh, and don’t worry about buying that may staples, it may take years to use that many, but you will use them if you use the gun on a regular bases. And as far as fasteners go, you can’t beat the price of a 2” staples over screws or even nails.

This gun is a bit pricey, but if this is what you need for the job then buy with confidence as this is a good product.

[I build chicken coops and fixed my RV with it as this is exactly what they used to build it when it was new!]

Hope this helps

The tool is great. The only issue I had was trying to get staples for it. I located them specifically for stucco, they go by “p21”. These specific staples are about twice the cost as the other 2 inch by 1 inch staples. You will make up the cost of a more expensive stapler once you buy a couple of boxes of staples. Unfortunately, I was midway in the project once I realized this.

Gun is used assembling pallets stapling into 2×4’s with 1″ Crown x 1/2″ Leg 16GA Galv Staples and did not even last 2 weeks before it became unusable with jamming issues. Tried using 1″ Leg Staples; they do not jam. Still disappointed as we purchased this gun to shoot 1/2″ Leg Staples and it just will not do that without jamming.

reroofed my house (by myself) and used this unit. Worked correctly throughout the project.

Well made, puts the staples just right depth, and seems durable we will see, I’ll push it too it’s limit.