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Using stainless steel staples on aluminum step flashing

Can I staple stainless steel staples through aluminum flashing?

Thanks

Adolph Johnson
carpenter - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2004

Can you? Yes. Do you want to? Only if you want the Aluminum to corrode away and start falling of.

Tom Gallant
- Long Beach, California, USA
2004

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