Re-stapling a game manual?

[LiquidPolicenaut]

I've never tried (or had to) do this, but one of my manuals lost a staple somehow and I'm wondering the best way to put it back together. The manual is mint, so I don't wanna mess it up. I only have regular staplers and they are not deep enough to reach into the crease to staple it. Does anybody have any ideas or tried it themselves?

[K3V]

My suggestion would be to either get yourself a long-arm stapler or take it down to a local copy/print shop and see if they can do it for you.

[Achika]

Go to a copy place, printer or book binders place and they should have a really long stapler that is adequet to get to the middle of the manual. They are usually used for stapling pamphlets, small books, etc.

[rbudrick]

Or, you could take a staple and staple it into nothing (basically push the stapler into itself). Then, take the staple and bend the two pins back a little. Carefully put the two pins through the holes in the manual. Once through, bend both pins back down.

-Rob

[Daria]

Or, you could take a staple and staple it into nothing (basically push the stapler into itself). Then, take the staple and bend the two pins back a little. Carefully put the two pins through the holes in the manual. Once through, bend both pins back down.

-Rob

That's pretty much exactly what I did with my Star Ocean 2 manual. Worked very well too.

[bargora]

Aaaugh! Non-original staples! Laminated maps! There is only chaos!

[-hellvin-]

Or, you could take a staple and staple it into nothing (basically push the stapler into itself). Then, take the staple and bend the two pins back a little. Carefully put the two pins through the holes in the manual. Once through, bend both pins back down.

-Rob

This is exactly what I did with the suikoden II manual before I sold it. For some fucking reason the video place unstapled the cover, put it in, then put a photo copied manual cover on......WTF? So I threw away the photocopied part then push a staple through and bent the pins.