Staple ream

[gene]

I am doing several sets of fully upholstered dining room chairs. They take a lot of staples.

It seems to me that I am refilling my staple gun more often than I used to. I don't think I'm using more staples than usual.

I use BEA staples and a ream is 4 15/16" long.

Does anyone have an old box, maybe a year ago, that you can measure the length of a staple ream?

Just curious.

gene

[Darren Henry]

It seems to me that I am refilling my staple gun more often than I used to

Could be because production line work like that is mind numbing. The only time you "zone in" is to reload LOL.

[sofadoc]

I don't know about overall length of a ream, but I have always bought staples in boxes of 10,000. I never counted, but I assumed that each ream contains 100 staples.

So if they are 22 gauge, then a ream of 100 staples would have always be the same length. If it were shorter, it wouldn't be 22 gauge.

I think you're just getting trigger happy in your old age.

[sofadoc]

Wow! That shows how much attention I've paid all these years. I thought a ream contained 100 staples.

I opened a box and counted 60 reams. I broke 1 ream apart and counted 166 staples. If all the reams are exactly that same size, then a box that says 10,000 actually only contains 9,960 staples.

Maybe some of the reams have an extra staple? I dunno. I'm not going to count all of them (I have a life, ya know).

What an eye-opener. All my life, I've been lied to.