How do I determine what size staples my staple gun takes?

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How do I determine what size staples my staple gun takes?

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How do I determine what size staples my staple gun takes? I've found an old staple gun of mine and I can't be sure what the size is? I can just make out Arrow T55 or it could be T35 stamped on the side. It doesn't help that I scored my name through the lettering when I was at art school :D What would I measure to determine staple size? Btw. Have googled this and Arrow has both T35 and T55.

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Re: How do I determine what size staples my staple gun takes?

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Buy a box of both.
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Re: How do I determine what size staples my staple gun takes?

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A box of Arrow staples will be marked with the same number as the Arrow staple gun. I rarely use the now, but I have both an Arrow T50 and an Arrow JT20 Staples guns and those are also the numbers on the boxes of staples.
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