Interesting pliers at CPC

[Dave Plowman (News)]

These electrician's pliers (bottom of page) look interesting.

[ARWadsworth]

The price is the most interesting part.

They are usually only £20 plus VAT at most electrical wholesalers.

CK are not good IMHO. Knipex are far better.

Adam

[The Wanderer]

'Look interesting'? Now we understand. Tools ain't about doing jobs, they're about possession, owning, gloating over.....

:-)

[Andrew Gabriel]

ordinary wire cutters, you end up with those two extra wire stripping notches after the flash and the bang... I found the resulting wire cutters to be extremely useful, but unfortunately mislaid them about 10 years later. I guess I can always make another one ;-)

[Bob Eager]

I still have the set I 'made' in 1969... .-)

[geoff]

In message , ARWadsworth writes

Yeah - watch out for CPC "bargain" prices

latest flier from CPC has a webcam identical to one I have just bought but it is £2 more expensive and the Hitachi ext HDD is about a tenner up on my local computer shop

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Ah. I'd never seen them before. Most of the combination cutters/strippers I've seen have been lightweight devices.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager saying something like:

You don't get the chance these days - the RCD will flip first.

I had a set that a 'friend' made later than that, by the simple expedient of using them to cut something far too hard.

[Mike Harrison]

Not if you get it dead straight - earth core is thinner than the others..!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Good test for GP side cutters - something like piano wire. Most fail it.

[NT]

Ordinary iron wire will notch cutters quickly, if you want to do it deliberately.

NT

[ARWadsworth]

The Knipex website gives the maximum diameter piano wire that their side cutters will cut through. I have never had the chance to try that.

Adam

[Adam Aglionby]

For hard wire Lindstrom TRX8180 about 50 quid plus VAT but they are very nice indeed

[1501]

Assuming your vision isn't impaired too much!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

On a decent make? I'd hope not.

[Bob Martin]

I saw someone insert a 14-inch screwdriver too near a magnetron. After the flash and bang he was left with 3 inches of plastic handle.

[Andrew Gabriel]

It took about a week for the vapourised copper to wear off the end of my thumb and thumb nail, although it didn't do any harm or hurt or burn or anything like that, but it wouldn't wash off.

[Frederick Williams]

That sounds implausible, iron is rather soft.

[NT]

try it then

NT

[Tim Lamb]

In message , NT writes

*iron* fencing wire can be soft or, in the high tensile version ****** hard.

regards