UK ELECTRICIAN USES AMERICAN STYLE TOOLS ONLY
2022 ж. 12 Нау.
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Lets see how I get on using American style tools for a day
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UK ELECTRICINA USES AMERICAN SYLE PLIERS MADE IN GERMANY :)
American sparky, here! We use side cutters; we call them "dikes", which is short for diagonal cutters. ...but we don't use them for stripping. We generally use a knife to strip the outer jacket of nonmetallic cables. The primary reason for having the linesman pliers, is that it's wide head allows us to twist several solid wires together at once. I don't know anyone who twists stranded wire, because the spinning action of screwing on a wire nut will automatically twist them together. Great vid! Kind of amusing and interesting to see your take on things.
American sparks seem to have an abbreviation for everything :D
Yeah, the jacket on American cable is a LOT tougher than the soft PVC on british and Euro style
I’ve been plugging those lineman’s for ages I love them. The knipex ones are induction hardened as standard to 64hrc I think so far stronger blades than standard combos I cut screws and everything with mine.
In New Zealand we just use linesmen pliers to strip the outer sheathing and the insulation around the core
Saw this on Instagram, had to watch it ASAP
Well done! Great tools! Greetings. I am electrician of Argentina! 👍🇦🇷☇
American Wire Guage (and sheet metal gaige thickness) reflects the number of times the raw material passes through a sizing die. So a 14AWG conductor has passed through 14 consecutively smaller dies to get to that diameter. 8 AWG, only 8.
Thanks man 👍🏻
I presum 9 volt DC on the interconnect on smoke alarms, seen as thats the voltage of the back up battery in them
wire gauge starts at 0 and then for every pass through a die, which makes the wire thinner, the number goes up. at least that is how it all started. we cannot really blame the yanks for it either, as it all started in the 1800s in Birmingham with the B.W.G.
Say bye to the earth sleeving 🤣 7:01
Hey I love the content I’m an electrician in the us I saw some of your shorts on my feed I’m interested In the pants you wear and your tool belt it looks very sleek could you give a link or make a video on both
For solid wire the size is correct, for stranded wire you use the next gauge down 10:10
Great video, but we do use side cutters. We call them dikes, short for diagonal cutters.
I was going to buy those installation pliers but I couldn't get my head around how you would snip them. I've just got the ergostrip but I'm trying to get around knicking the cable
New subscriber from Nick’s recommendation. Yeah cables are different when stripping cable between UK and USA, the lineman’s are worth keeping I have all knipex insulated tools here in the US including the lineman which I agree are a beast so useful for twisting. Mate I don’t understand the hate for twisting they still make a very solid connection in fact twisting was in the past UK regs as well. Agreed twisting can make testing difficult.
That's the reason for the hatred. Our regs REQUIRE lots of disconnections for testing. Agreed, if you DON'T need to test, it makes a nice solid connection
Those strippers are designed specifically for NMD90 cable (the North American version of your T&E). There's little sense in using them on your cables because 14 AWG & 16 AWG have a little less cross-sectional area than 2.5mm and 1.5mm respectively. You could end up nicking a conductor.
Just discovered your channel and love the content! Do you have a part number for those screwdrivers? they look like beasts! Are they set or individual?
Thanks mate. 33736INS 👍🏻
It’s a set mate
Hello there! I am also electrician in Greece and I bought these tools but I couldn’t work properly cause of their size
I think those smokes are 240 I think as they come straight from the board don’t they. I’m not a spark though I’m a fire alarm engineer. Be thing I was surprised about is that they don’t need their own permanent feed. One of the tests I do when servicing them is to test them on battery only with the feed turned off
They are mains powered but he is talking about the IC only being 24v, in which here is using the black from the 3 core. All the IC does is send a very low voltage current to the other alarms on the circuit so that they all go off together when one is triggered, the IC is not connected to the mains supply in any way
We don’t twist stranded cable in the US
I can only presume with the size it's going in order like this 1/10 1/12,1/14 and so on
I know it’s probably good practice but do you really have to sleeve the black as it’s a phase colour?
Yes mate
Sir we need cable join kit
We do have strippers that are designed to take off the outer sheathing like 12/2 and 14/2.
Dunno if I'd call Knipex 'American' but okay.
I love to see a pro at work if you one day want a new pear of screwdrivers get yourself a set of the vde GEDORE screwdrivers i love them use them alot would love your opinion on them
Yeah I’ve been meaning to try them 👍🏻
I’ve got a set of these, not used them yet. Cheers for the heads up on the 6mm though 👌🏻
Not used them yet?? 😂😂
@@RDavisElectrical nope still in the packet 🙈🤣
good night for indonesia brother 🙏🏻
10 = 4 sq
14 = 1.5. 12 = 2.5
Thanks man
@@RDavisElectrical worked in Boston for 10 years Klein tools were all the rage
please translate to indonesia brow 🙏🏻
Was expecting you to bust out the wire nuts. Please no!
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To many holes I have the same problem with my wife 😅
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