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It looked like it had a label on it at one stage but it has fallen off. The patent number points to Fletcher Terry but I cant find a red plastic of their point guns, both present and past.

Does anyone know what is it, and what tabs will it take?
thanks in Advance..

Hi.

I dont know of a red fletcher tab gun, could it be a old version of the current green black and yellow guns??

If you lift the silver knobs as if you were refilling with tabs you can see what shape and size tabs it takes eg flexi, rigid frame, rigid glass, or flexipoints. Hope this helps.

I've tried a reverse google image search on it with no success. We have been using plain flexi tabs (made for the charnwood tab gun) they work but not as good as they probably should. Something like these https://charnwood.net/product/flexible- ... 0u_NNo_pNY

Do certain Fletcher tab guns ONLY take a specific tab? is that what the little side indexes/notches and shapes and sizes are for?

Post a photo of the top of the magazine, ie from above

It shows an “F” for framers points so I’d assume if you put it in the other way it’ll show a “G” for glazers points, in which case it’s a black gun ….. but red!

Top and bottom for completeness, does this help a little?

Looks identical to the black rigid point gun.

lawrieh wrote: Wed 18 Jun, 2025 8:18 pm Do certain Fletcher tab guns ONLY take a specific tab? is that what the little side indexes/notches and shapes and sizes are for?

Yes, if you buy a Fletcher gun you’re committed to their points, which are not the cheapest.

Fur manual guns they have a bit of a monopoly so in the long term it’s better to buy a pneumatic gun such as the omer 53 which fires flexible and semi rigid points, which perform better than any manually fired rigid point.

Its a flexi tab gun but not the same as the current green fletcher gun which has a raised notch on the right hand side as you look down into the magazine. The black rigid has 2 notches.

Try some fletcher flexi tabs and see if that works better then the charnwood tabs.

Its a Fletcher Terry made tab gun that was sold by Cassese hence the change to a burgundy coloured body, it takes standard 0.15 flexi tabs from any supplier.

(Fletcher only later added a side indent to the magazine in an attempt to stop other makers tabs from being fitted)

Gosh I would never have worked that out. Thanks for the info Mark.