Question: Cable Tacker for 18 Gauge Insulated wire

I want to secure 18 gauge insulated wire to strips of Phosphor-bronze
strips before soldering the connections and figured I'd use a cable
tacker stapler.

The problem is that I don't know what size staples to get, and
therefore stapler, because I don't belive the listed diameter of this
wire includes the insulation.

"18 gauge wire is 1624.3 CM or .0403" diameter, which is 1.02mm"

Does anyone have any idea on what stapler/staples I'll need for this
project?

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[JeffM]

Staple sizes are stated according to the tool which uses them.
This means that you must know what gun size equates to what width.
The inch size on the box of staples is the height.
Just maddening.

Moreover, the manufacturer's site is useless in clarifying this.
The phonegeeks site is the closet thing to clarity.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=t18+t25+t37+t75+staples+OR+stapler+-arrowfastener-com

 

JeffM wrote:

Staple sizes are stated according to the tool which uses them.
This means that you must know what gun size equates to what width.
The inch size on the box of staples is the height.
Just maddening.

Moreover, the manufacturer's site is useless in clarifying this.
The phonegeeks site is the closet thing to clarity.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=t18+t25+t37+t75+staples+OR+stapler+-arrowfastener-com

I'm still getting nowhere. So it looks like this is going to be a trial
and error situation.

I'll have to find the correct size staples, and try to figure out what
gun uses them.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[JeffM]

Staple sizes are stated according to the tool which uses them.
This means that you must know what gun size equates to what width.
The inch size on the box of staples is the height.
Just maddening.

Moreover, the manufacturer's site is useless in clarifying this.
The phonegeeks site is the closet thing to clarity.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=t18+t25+t37+t75+staples+OR+stapler+-arrowfastener-com
JeffM

I'm still getting nowhere.
I'll have to find the correct size staples,
and try to figure out what gun uses them.
Darren Harris (Searcher7)

I thought that you would see the pattern from the PhoneGeeks site.
T18 is a 0.1875" wide staple; T37 is 0.375", etc.
The width is truncated to 2 digits with no decimal in sight.

 

I thought that you would see the pattern from the PhoneGeeks site.
T18 is a 0.1875" wide staple; T37 is 0.375", etc.
The width is truncated to 2 digits with no decimal in sight.

Well actually, the staple width is not an issue. What I need to know is
what staples fit over an 18 gauge insulated wire. So that would mean
finding out the size of the "arch" in the middle.

I've read that 18 gauge wire is 1624.3 CM or .0403" diameter, which is
1.02mm. But I don't think that takes the insulation itself into
consideration.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Peter Bennett]

On 12 Feb 2005 16:14:53 -0800, Searcher7@mail.con2.com wrote:

Well actually, the staple width is not an issue. What I need to know is
what staples fit over an 18 gauge insulated wire. So that would mean
finding out the size of the "arch" in the middle.

I've read that 18 gauge wire is 1624.3 CM or .0403" diameter, which is
1.02mm. But I don't think that takes the insulation itself into
consideration.

That is probably the conductor diameter.

Get a sample of the wire you will be using, and MEASURE IT to
determine the staple size you need.




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Peter Bennett wrote:

On 12 Feb 2005 16:14:53 -0800, Searcher7@mail.con2.com wrote:


Well actually, the staple width is not an issue. What I need to know
is
what staples fit over an 18 gauge insulated wire. So that would mean
finding out the size of the "arch" in the middle.

I've read that 18 gauge wire is 1624.3 CM or .0403" diameter, which
is
1.02mm. But I don't think that takes the insulation itself into
consideration.

That is probably the conductor diameter.

Get a sample of the wire you will be using, and MEASURE IT to
determine the staple size you need.

That's a difficult thing to do.

The diameter is somewhere betwen 1/16th of an inch and 2 millimeters.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.