RAPESCOSupaclip 60 Dispenser with 8 Clips

I'd actually like to rate this as 3.5. I heavily relied on the original clam clip device made by skillcraft/lighthouse for the blind. I haven't looked in a GSA catalog, but these seem to have been out of favor and occasionally come across unused stock. A search on amazon found this company. The clips in all sizes are equally as durable, but the dispensers are far, far inferior. The original had a pusher mechanism to push against all loaded clips which produced a solid binding of anything that "fit" into the mouth/slot of the dispenser. I've come to know the limitations and how to best work around them (i.e., used the dispenser in a vertical fashion to let gravity assist with proper alignment. Every now and then I'll order one of these in various sizes with more clips as an add on. So, a 3 does this produced from Rapesco (they highlight it as RAPesco, but to me a poor name choice too similar to the base word for a horrendous crime) a disservice. I'll continue to use these when needed. I have become a fan of their 40 clip size...the dispenser is just as bad, but have dozens of the skill craft ones and while clip width is smaller, it works. Not only does this allow a cheap binding solution for 95% or my needs, but rapesco makes that clip size in mutiple colors and more playful ones like hearts, smiley faces, and emoticons which my wife uses as motivational responses to her middle school students. Sort of like getting colored stars when I was in grade school. Not perftect, could be better, but an amazing price even with these limitations ($10-12 for the old skill craft version). The hardest part I had in my office years ago was getting people to recycle the clips. Used over and over, a proper supply would easily last a life time. I like them as I never damage paper with heavy duty staplers and can remove, copy, replace. I use the various colors to denote various actions, much like a color code system of files in a doctor's office. For instance yellow may mean in progress, red means a decision, and green represents a complete file that is approved, scanned, and now going to archive files. Counting stainless steel silver, think they make about 10 colors. Not all are on the US Amazon site, but I found them on the UK site. My login in and password worked (prime didn't work for books, movies, or shipping which makes sense) and I found multiple options. The basic options were cheaper on the US site. Shipping while more was reasonable, so I ordered $60-70 worth of items not on US site and shipping was about $12 dollars. The conversion rate is known prior to committing. The time for delivery was around 10 February due to product availability and time for ocean crossing, truck transit, and customs in UK and US. New message today expects delivery sooner, this week. So, it opened another trusted supply source. Love the "supaclips", a little less so for the dispensers.

We love the Supaclip to attach our embroidery stabilizer to our Durkee EZ frames. Some folks just glue the stabilizer to the hoop, which leaves a lot of residue on the hoop that often needs cleaning. The clips can be reused many times and are easy to remove when the stitching completes. We only have one issue with the unit. The small clips inside the unit will fail after a lot of use, or may get bent if you are not careful when taking apart the unit to clear a clip jam. We keep a spare on hand just in case we damage the interior metal guide. We will continue purchasing these units because there is no alternative product to satisfy our special needs.

I love the way this dispenser works. I bought it to use with my machine embroidery quick change hoops but find that I'm using them more the intended use of paper. It's so easy to just push the the dispenser over what ever you are wanting to clip together and then deploy the clip. Once you don't need the clip on the item any longer, you can just load it back in the dispenser to use again and again. Of course you could use a gem clip in most instances (except for embroidery) but this is much more fun to use!! I probably will not be using them to keep material on the hoops unless I find a better way to do it than I have so far.

These work well with the Durkee hoops I have. I originally bought the small ones but they were too small and had to return.

I use this to keep my job files together. I can take them apart, and with just a snap, they can be clipped back together again with no damage, such as staples. Very easy to use, as well as reusable. Glad that I found them.

I use the Supraclip for holding my stabilizer on my Durkee frames. So Easy!

I own an embroidery machine. These clips are excellent for attaching the material to be embroidered to the hoop that holds it in place on the machine. Incidentally, it is also great for its original purpose of holding papers together! I love the fact that the clips are reusable, whether on paper or cloth. Thank you for an excellent product and fantastic shipping. My order arrived a full 4 days before its expected time. I also ordered the refill pack, and I understand the clips are available in colors. Great idea!

Our office was using staples to attach various documents in our sales process. After the order ships, the documents are scanned and all of the staples need to be removed. We purchased Supaclip 40 Dispensers for everyone and some 60s for those who have more paper with their orders. It took a little coaxing to get everyone to switch, but everyone has gotten used to it and it has saved us hours per day in the time it takes to scan the orders.

It works as planned.

I have an old no name one for more than 10 years, never jammed once. This one I got for a day and it jammed a few time already.

Work as well as the 20s! Love it!!!

What a fantastic idea for keeping papers together without marking the page like a staple does. The only issue is that the metal separators that split the clip as it comes out the device seem to keep breaking and popping out. I've had to replace 2 of these in the space of 18 months. Not excessive use but I would expect from a manufacturer like Rapesco that these should be lasting a bit longer.

I have had several of these over the years but the last three that I bought have been very poor. One the spring disengaged from the retaining mount, the second constantly jammed and the third refused to download the clip. Unfortunately I am stuck with several hundred unusable clips. Not the end of the world but disappointing.