Its Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to another glorious episode of
it's Friday fool you need this tool my
name is Kyle Voss and every Friday I
bring you a tool a tool that I use here
in this shop or that I have featured on
this channel welcome back to argue today
see this week's tool this week's tool is
the safety wire pliers so they're cold
yes the safety wire pliers so I call it
speed wire guess it's safety wire is
probably a more appropriate term so just
a little bit of background if you're not
familiar with the safety wire pliers or
safety wire itself safety wire I believe
kind of came from the aviation industry
and made its way into you like high
speed racing some drag racing a lot of
motorcycle stuff uses safety wire along
with a lot of other things too that I'm
probably pretty sure I'm not including
there may be a few of you out there that
are probably like safety wire or speed
wire what do you what are you talking
about I've never seen that tool never
heard of that term let me give you a
little example I've been working on the
turbo Mustang to work on the brakes so
this is an aluminum solid aluminum brake
hub and a steel rotor and basically it
just bolts to the aluminum on the
backside with the bolts I wanted to make
sure these bolts were not going to come
out I mean that would be something you
wouldn't want to happen is your brake
rotor to come loose right especially if
it's working its way loose and they need
to find out until you are like making a
pass 200 mile an hour or something this
is basically what safety wire does okay
so the head of the bolt has a hole
through it and you basically run this
stainless wire through these bolts in a
fashion that will not allow thee to come
out won't allow them to unscrew if you
see the way that they're kind of lined
up they go in this side and out that
side on all of them
so this thing could not move
counterclockwise it could probably get
tighter but it could not get looser
makes sense kind of understand it now
and these pliers I'm going to show you
these pliers will help you achieve this
kind of twist twist and run pattern how
it does that you ask well so you got
stainless wire alright these pliers here
have a cutter on them also like I said
this came from aviation I believe I'm
not 100% sure of that I'm pretty sure
that it came from aviation and the
reason is is this you don't want stuff
coming loose when you're flying
obviously so whether it's works put a
hole through the head of the bolt or
whatever it is that you want to
basically fasten and there's a lot of
ways that you can do this the way that
I've done it may not be the exact
precise way that it's done for aviation
or anything else I've seen where two of
them might be basically tied together so
so people would just tie these two
together then total tie these two
together and someone tie these two
together instead of doing all six at one
or tie three of them together and then
tie these three together a lot of ways
that you can do it there may be only one
official way to do this for what I'm
using it for this will work perfect you
also might say well why don't you just
use Loctite or a lot you know lock
washer well these actually have lock
washers on them but I don't really trust
a lock washer to save my life
right Loctite would probably work the
problem with Loctite is that I guess I
could still potentially come loose and
this hub is aluminum so I wouldn't want
to have any issues with threads if I
ever need to take these bolts out lock
tight could cause those problems and so
I didn't want to go that route either
speed wire safety wire was the route
that I chose
and for this application I feel like
it's going we're great all right back to
me showing you how these pliers work so
you got your stainless wire and if I had
a bolt that had a hole in the head of it
and show you your dealt with let's just
do this I got a sake right here let's
act like this is the head of a bolt okay
if you basically run the stainless
through there then you clamp it with
these pliers alright and then these
pliers will lock let's cut a little hook
right here and this little piece of
slides just press this down
alright see if I can show you this time
so you just press this down and then
this little piece does slide and I'll
lock it so these pliers are locked on
this stainless wire now all right once
you get that way then it has this little
knob at the end and on the inside of
this had the shaft that is for a lack of
better words spiral-wound
I guess and you'll see as I pull this
out when I pull this it's going to spin
these pliers and it will wind this
stainless just like that the pull
you can see maybe maybe you can't see
it's just winding that stainless up
let's get the nice and tight and I think
within the aviation industry or maybe
some the other stuff too there are there
needs to be a certain amount of wines
per an inch so this wind it's nice and
tight what you would do is if this was
going to another boat obviously that's
where the pliers would be holding on to
the wire that way you only twist the
distance between the bolts and then once
you're done the two pieces of stainless
will still be a part you can then run
one of those through the next bolt head
then you measure it out clamp your
pliers again twist that section and so
on and so forth
until you're all the way around
everything is nice and tidy and it's not
going anywhere and if you ever do need
to remove these you just take some snips
cut the stainless loose discard the wire
and once you put everything back
together then you just put your safety
wire back on think I have some footage
of me doing this one so I'll show you
that
obviously safety wire speed wire it's
not for everybody I mean you not putting
this on just normal stuff will tell you
though if there's anything if you want
to make sure does not come loose this is
a good trick to use and it looks pretty
dang cool too so if you've got maybe
something that you want to have that
salt-flat high-speed look drag racing
look or aviation style look to it which
is some speed wire on there so give you
the look that you need even if you don't
necessarily need the safety aspect of
this these kids are relatively cheap I
think 25 foot of stainless wire and the
pliers were like 22 bucks shipped on
Amazon as I always do I'll drop some
links in the description so you can go
check them out just a cool little tool
to have I suppose you could probably use
these too you like twist just regular
power wire you know if you're trying to
like run something nice to meet with in
your car you can get a set of these I
don't know if you have a use for these
that I've not mentioned be sure to
comment in the comments and let us know
what you use them for get that fit this
week's tool the safety wire pliers as
always thank you for joining me I'll see
you a lot more this week I've already
got two videos lined up for you probably
Saturday and Sunday I don't know anyway
it's Friday fool it's Friday fool