The Knipex five and one has been around for a while now in fact there have been several
copycat versions that have been produced which just goes to show how good a tool this really is
stay tuned to see it in action when I demonstrate this functions and
understand why they're my favourite set of pliers in my electrical tool bag [Music]
first of all you can see that they've got a really nice long nose on them which is
fantastic for getting into the back of deep back boxes they've got a nice flat Edge on the face
coupled with a nice flat surface so if you're having to pull cables through a back box
just pinching it to pull it through there's little to no damage on the outer sheath whereas obviously
if you do use the teeth which are serrated it will leave a mark but it will add a lot
of extra grip to it you see there's got a little Mark on there but you've got the flat teeth there
and you've got rounded for bigger cables or if you've got a hold a nut or a bolt so you can
tighten it up with a spanner on the other side of it fantastic fantastic idea on this with the flat
nose on there it makes it really really easy to take the knockouts on metal bat boxes out
that simple one knock straight out grab it twist it out it comes and if you're doing things like
fitting dimmer switches then with the lugs on the side there really really simple just to push it in
a bend them nice and flat so they're out of the way for all your switch gear and your
accessories going in plastic back boxes similar thing because it's nice and flat nice and big
doing your Knockouts really really simple just pulls it straight out straight through there
and because these edges are nice and sharp you can get in there and you can just deburr some of those
edges off you have to be a little bit careful so you don't break this back box but a plastic back
boxes and IP rated boxes the plastic is generally softer so it makes it a lot easier to to burn
those edges off without damaging the Box itself and again because they're flat you can just open
it up if you need to with the smaller Knockouts and just push the hole straight out rid of here
ready for your screws or again so you've got these Knockouts here
straight out really really simple fantastic tool there are wire strippers on here
um rated from 0.7 millimetres all the way to 2.5 piece of 2.5 20 knife here
really is that simple and no damage to the copper core whatsoever
these Jaws are fantastic they're nice and big and they've got that curve to it which means
when you need to cut your cable very simple but there's no crushing to the insulation whatsoever
and what's better is is they're rated for
cutting up to 15 millimeter cable this is some 16 millimeter tails
really really simple and sharp and great for just taking that
outer sheath off and if you when you need to do the inner sheath two
really really lovely pair but the one thing I do like about these as well
is that I know they're not rated for it but taking a piece of 25 millimeter cable
and with a little bit of extra pressure it will just snip straight through it
and again there's no damage done to the outer core there they truly are
an excellent piece of kit and when you get to know the balance of these Snips and how
they actually work things like stripping flexible cable is second to none really really simple again
you can just cut through it like hot knife through butter but
just a very light cut so you haven't actually gone far enough of that one
and just leaves a nice clean Edge
and you'll see there I haven't gone through to any of the cores damaging the sheath below
taking the wire strippers here
perfect
really really simple easy quick easy tool and what's even better is
they have a built-in crimping tool which
just slide that on there
always on camera isn't it so I always keep a spare slide it on those crimping tools are rated
from 0.5 to 2.5 millimeter cable you literally just line it up push it in give it a squeeze
one perfectly crimped cable and if you've got a little bit overhanging on the top there
just slip off insulated to a thousand volts ac and lightweight any electrical tool kit
in my opinion isn't complete without a set of these please let me know in the comments your
experiences of using these pliers in fact do you even have a set are you thinking
of buying some I really do think they really are that good but do you please don't forget
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