I'm recovering Garrett's rear seat bottoms. The originals are foam and the leather is just stapled to the foam with a outward clinch design. What stapler can I buy to do this properly??? I have found manual ones but I'm thinking the force of pusching down hard enough to get the staple out will deform the foam.
Is a air controled / electric outward clinch stapler the way to go?

Thanks, Dean

 

After measuring the factory staples, I bought a regular cheap air stapler (about $30 at a local tool place), and some 1/8" long 1/2" crown zinc-plated staples.

The staple size is standard - its an 80-series staple (12.8mm crown, 3mm legs).

I got it for repairing my leather interior - leather headliner needs new glue to stop it sagging (its a no sunroof car), so I removed all the staples down 3 sides (left front attached) to peel it back for new Permatex headliner glue.

edit: Oh - not sure what size staples were used for the rear seats - I recall they're long-ish, like maybe 1/2" legs? and splay oddly.. my advice above was for interior panels with a hard core, like door panels, rear quarters, headliner, etc.

 

Outward clinching, so it digs into the foam, but it isn't clear to me if a special stapler is required or special staples or what.

 

Its a part of the stapler...it has a "head" that starts the staple in an outwardly "curl" is the way I see it.

 

Cool.. so now I know. The rear seat bases are the only spot I've come across that uses them though - might be some other kind of fasteners you can use rather than having to buy a stapler and 1000 staples?

cheapest outward clinch stapler on ebay is $31.45 with free UPS shipping

 

Bostitch PC3000-OC2 and the staples I believe are STCR 2619-1/2"

This is the outward clinching stapler. It's about $35 - $50 on Ebay.

 

Power stapler is a very nice thing to use, one hand can do all the holding of bits and getting things aligned, then blam blam blam its stapled.

 

Yep, permanently, to your finger.