Rapesco S11880Z3 26/8 mm Galvanised Staples, Box of 5000

What if you have the nightmare scenario of needing to attach one piece of paper, to , yes, you guessed it... another piece of paper? The absolute nightmare scenario. Very few people have worked out a system for this, and it's been the bane of office life for literally millions of years.Herman Stapler, along with his sidekick Otto Von Bismarck (no relation) in 1833, created The Staple, which saved many from the drudgery of making holes in paper and sticking them in so-called "ring binders". The staple has gone through several iterations. The round staple, the curly staple, the angled staple... and now, the zenith of the staple line is this, the Rapsesco S11662Z3 Galvanized steel 26 mil with 6 mil pitch square cross-section extruded/stamped Staple. Millions of hours of research have gone into this one product, which brings humanity to the very top of what Science can achieve.Rapesco, in this product, the S116622Z3 staple (ignoring the disastrous problems of the S116621A4 experiments in the 80s), have actually made a really good product.The staples are finely crafted, they fit into a standard stapler (of any make) and slide up and down with ease. Almost all staplers nowadays are of the 26/6 type, with only some smaller "pencil case" ones using smaller novely staples.Surely with such a finely crafted piece of paper/paper adherence technology we are but mere moments away in the reckoning of geologists to flying cars, to fusion reactors, or even, dare I hesitate to say it, a journey into SPACE itself?In the packet you get 2000 of these things, which is a LOT of staple for the price. Even in this day and age of cheap metal products, that's pretty good value for money. The staples are in blocks which are a bit too short for most staplers, so you almost end up always needing to break one of the blocks to fill the stapler.Don't forget that some staplers have a secret compartment on the back for storing more staples! I'm very pleased with these staples.

Good product and great customer service

Just the job at a good price - many thanks !

Not rapesco ones but good all the same. I usually order rapesco.

I mean they are just staples, don't seem to rust and can hold at least 18 pages strongly together.

Great value for money

The staples fit as described and staple as described. What more can I say? Have they changed my life.......? Well yes they have......!!Here's my story..... Once upon a time there lived a man, a very neat man who used his office to write a lot and staples his many pages together into neat piles.One day he ran out of staples and really struggled keeping the sheets of paper together, paper clips were fine until one day he opened the window (and you can guess what's coming next....). A large gust of wind blew the window open and the paperwork went everywhere, the paper clips seperated from all the neatly clipped sheets which were sent hurtling into the air tumbling around the room in a scene reminiscent of an 80's/90's movies scene in New York with newspaper and rubbish being blown around the streets!He quickly closed window however on looking out the window his worst fear was realised!............... Some of his sheets had escaped!!!!! Quickly wading through the now mess that was once a pile of neatly clipped sheets of paper he sprinted down the stairs and out of the front door chasing his paperwork down the road.Many times he had to jump or dive to grab the sheets that were whirling around the air like a tornado!He eventually got all his sheets and walked slowly, broken, back towards his front door. His knees and elbows were cut from diving on the floor to grab his sheets.Slowly he opened the door and walked up the stairs knowing how mamoth his next task was......to match up all his sheets and put them back in the correct order again and clip them together.He cried!Walked into the office and realised his full horror not a sheet was still clipped and his sheets were everywhere!!!The man ubruptly jumps, realising he is in bed, dripping with sweat his heart thumping on his chest..... He runs into his office tripping over the cat and banging his head, with his head bleeding drip drip drip he runs into his office to see all his sheets neatly clipped together still in their piles with paper clips.He realises it was a dream a really bad dream. With a tissue held to his head he fires up his computer, goes on to Amazon and orders these very staples. He doesn't take any chances and ties his window handles together to prevent him or his wife opening the window.The staples arrived a few days later and he frantically rips open the packaging to find the staples...... He finds them and loads them into his waiting stapler, a beast of a contraption empty and bare inside like a persons mouth waiting to be fitted for false teeth.He puts them in, they fit perfectly and he begins one by one to remove the clips and staple the pages together! Once he finished he vowed never to run out of staples again!The lesson is simple a page clipped is a disaster waiting to happen, a page stapled is a page that you will need a staple remover to part!!! (Staple removers are also available on Amazon)

Night and day difference to cheap staples.