Office Stapler from 1938 still working

[Camper6]

I have a Pilot Stapler which I just polished up. It still works. Patented in 1938 and takes modern staples.
Really a solid piece of equipment and chrome finish.

I looked this up on the internet and they have a museum at the Ace Fasterner Corp in Chicago Ill.
The drawing is what they had to do to get a patent.

 

[Gary O']

Of course it's still working

Now?
Pay as much as you wish, best brand....still craps out

That, sir, is a treasure

 

[Aunt Marg]

Of course it's still working

Now?
Pay as much as you wish, best brand....still craps out

That, sir, is a treasure

I couldn't have said it better.

 

[win231]

That stapler reminded me of those big heavy Royal Typewriters, like the one James Caan used on Kathy Bates in "Misery."

 

[fmdog44]

All assembled by hand in America.

 

[LindaB]

Wow! How great to have that! Now days everything is disposable

 

[Don M.]

It seems that things today are made to start breaking down shortly after the warranty expires. Awhile back, I found my old Smith Corona typewriter that my folks bought me back in 1957...to do my homework on...and it still seems to work.

 

[Camper6]

I'm missing one tiny nut that I dropped when I took it apart to clean it. But that should be no problem to find one since I reorganized all my fasteners in another thread called Order or a semblance of order, even where there is none. There is also a flip thing on the front of it. You can just tack papers together . The staple stays open and you can just pull it out if you don't want to staple the papers permanently. We used to do that when we made carbon copies in the good old days. Photocopiers are a fairly recent invention.

 

[Fyrefox]

They made sturdy stuff built to last in America back then. No "planned obsolescence" either, or things which failed to work because it refused to accept the "latest upgrade." My office had a "paper cutter" which was decades old and outdated any worker there, yet still performed it's intended function well...