- robmck
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Is the "hammer" the metal sheet that separates the next staple from the rest and drives it into the paper?
- Pete E.
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Yep...the entire piece is gone. Got the stapler knowing it was not functional.
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- mikeytap
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- black and white
- box ends,
- row of fronts, curious which is oldest? I got a charge out of loading the white NOS and stapling for the first time since it was produced in xxxx year.
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- mikeytap
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My new white NOS is the only one where the plunger comes all the way out as a separate piece.
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- Pete E.
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Hi Mike,
I think the later production (1970-80's) of the Ace Liner had the fully-removable staple "ramrod". Probably an easy way to simplify the production at bit and to reduce labor costs.
First time I ran across one...my heart sank for a minute thinking it was broken.
Nice colour grouping ! They are a bit addictive, aren't they... ?
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- Pete E.
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Mike,
This article has "Versions" identified for traits and years and even colours offered.
Your emerald-green 502 is your oldest one.
- Pete E.
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The author (Larry Parsons) also came out with a 320 page book all about ACE and their products through the years :
- mikeytap
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Pete E. wrote:
Mike,
This article has "Versions" identified for traits and years and even colours offered.
Your emerald-green 502 is your oldest one.
Thanks for the links.
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- Pete E.
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Mike,
I think in his book the author has increased his "Versions" to some where around 7-9 differing Ace Liners.
I am waiting to nab a used book on the cheap on eBay...as I suspect the 502 and 302 staplers might only be 1-2 chapters in the book.
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I was curious to see the next-step evolution of the Ace Liner stapler.
Here is the Ace Concorde 602 from the 1970's. This one is in the colour "putty". I remember by first office job in the 1970's and it seemed like you could get any colour you wanted for office furnishings...as long as it was putty.
Quality is still very good. Made in Chicago IL at the time.
The staple-to-pin anvil does not move forward/back as it did on the Ace Liner.
But rather the Ace Concorde has a chrome spring-loaded button on its underside that you push up and the anvil rises and can be rotated 180-degrees to go from staple-mode to pin-mode and vice-versa.
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