today we're going to take a look at the Precistrip 16 from Knipex
the name's wrong comment bar cheers thanks mate okay come in a wonderful presentation box and we
haven't got it out yet because we want to show you it coming out of the box but there's some
other bits in there as well isn't there gordon let's bring the hand cannon i always love it
when something turns up in the box like it's like getting a new phone or something like that it's
a trend we're seeing now oh yeah there it is very nice but it comes with some cables for some reason
yeah so i think uh nipex obviously want you to try it with this i mean there's the implication that
it can strip all of these conductors and yeah of course it would is he wouldn't put it in the box
so we're going to ignore these i mean this one i can even strip with my fingers watch a
silicon wire easy who needs a wire stripper when you've got that so i thought well
we're not going to bother with them we'll take this out of the box okay and we'll test it out on
some of the cables that we have scattered around the workshops and they are scattered as well
let's get it so yeah we've got some thin yeah thick cable yeah let's give it a try on the
cables we use okay then show me all these great features on this Precistrip16 Gordon first
comment on a lot of these type of strips obviously you can set the length of strip you want to do so
that's useful for doing repetitive stuff saying kind of fairly ends and you know the exact length
let's start with some twin and earth okay well this should be on home turf here so maximum 20mm was
that correct yes yeah that's nice and easy peasy okay so what's next in the oversized yeah so 2.5
just slide it in stops at the barrier that you've set it to gentle motion now i like
where you slowed that one down yeah really good and then yeah i'm gonna finish off the neutral
that we're gonna bother stripping the cpc no gordon not this time going down right okay
where next okay well let's look at a stranded six millimeter oh wow that was easy and this bit i
really like yeah look at this yeah that built-in cutter is really useful yeah so and that goes up
to 16 mil as well doesn't it and cut up 16 wheel cables yeah look at that and again yeah just easy
in order to cut those so that's a solid copper and solid stranded what are you going for next
smallest wire i could find in the workshop with this alarm cable so it's a multi-strand
uh fine strands this is 0.2 millimeter diameter cross-section okay and again we haven't had to
make any adjustments on the actual stripper itself just checking now yeah yeah just
checking and damaging those inner cores and they were fine okay because if they are looking at it
later i think you can adjust it can you gordon yeah okay so there we go oh it's a combined ev
ultra cable so this is this is the opposite ends of the spectrum we've got a data cable in here
and a XLPE armored cable okay so these are cap five is solid that's a solid yeah again no can look the
damage yeah i like that easy to strip yeah it is that lack of having to actually readjust the tool
in order to strip such variants of cable size yeah nice slow motion yeah just yeah that's really good
gonna have a crack at one of the uh crosslink polyethylene's next yeah that's always the
difficult one we really struggle with tools that will strip this okay so
and cut it back chop the enough okay so we had a little go there so let's have a look
all right oh wow that was easy yeah if you do need to make adjustments got this dial on
the side here where you can just trim it if you wanted to adjust so we saw there the preki strip
16 doing fine stranded stranded and solid copper conductors up to what size yeah so it's up to 16
millimeters and that's where we get the 16 on the end of the knife yeah hey we love it we'll love
it when a part number somehow the product name matches what it does yeah it gives us a hint now
i've been looking at the desk here and i've got a funny suspicion that you might have owned one
of these before because this looks like a legacy tool here okay and we've got the newer version of
it here should we have a look at some comparisons between the legacy one and the new yeah okay i've
got a confession to make gary here so this is the multistrip ten so this is it's uh yeah this is
it's a predecessor right and i actually bought this because i needed to strip some PTFE cable
right ptfe that's the uh i think plumbers use ptfe is it a tape is it is that right but you can't
get in the cable as well for special purposes but that is difficult to strip right this was the only
strip i could find that would actually grip it and strip it okay so if we compare it next to its uh
the new version okay which is now my version i think you'll find because you've already got one
so this one's more right so obviously so this the multi-strip would do up to 10 millimeter
conductors okay yeah it had the uh it had the the cutter as well okay yeah and the handle
and obviously the adjustment but if you look at the end of the two you'll see there's been an
adjustment in those grips yeah there's certainly more well yeah gripping some magnificence call
this one a parabolic grip on the new one there sorry parabolic grip wow that's a big fancy word
isn't it yeah okay and so let's look at the size now we're between 0.08 and 16 yeah and previously
we were between a little bit 0.03 and 10. if you come across many 0.03 cables yeah you'll
struggle to find that especially especially in most common electrical installations but yeah
so what's 0.05 a millimeter between friends so i've suggested probably more use at that high end
than it was at the low end and also when we were stripping say those fine stranded cables maybe
like for the um was it the burger alarm cable that we did yeah there is a chance that you can
obviously damage those conductors and this is this where the fine adjustment comes in yeah so you can
make a fine adjustment bring in a screwdriver yeah you just turn this around and this just
slightly adjusts the brakes okay and also if you digged into maybe the cat 5 cable and made it a
little bit weaker again it can be adjusted for that couldn't it yeah just for those yeah fine
fine scale adjustments and say you didn't have this in the previous version so you've just made
a few nice adjustments there in the newer one also we can take out the blade and replace it
can't we when when that blade becomes blunt over time we can do you wanna have a look at that yeah
okay then show me how simple it is to take the blade out then okay so we've got this lever here
okay push that forward pull it out you can see the hook there behind the blade all right yeah
so pull that out take it out of the way and just tease it out of the way take that away we've got
a pacman there that's it so then obviously get a nice fresh new one and just reverse the process to
get it back in yeah so okay so clip it into position like it was before yeah fold your
pacman back in yeah yeah now you're working on that hook then yeah into position like so
yeah and just slide our lever back into place
well done changed yeah really good so again you can see another simple process in order to
remove the blade and obviously you can swap it over for a new one and just slide down
yeah yeah there's often yeah you'll find these two tools yeah you can replace the blades but
nobody actually really shows you how to replace the blades or the fact you can do it but that
yeah that's quite a simple process and at the same time we're looking at that area
there was a little hole there i think that's uh for something special as well is that right
yeah so this if you uh if you want to have if you want to use a tethered tool say you're working at
height and a bit worried about dropping it from a from from a great height on to somebody or onto a
hard surface and destroying your tool okay and there's another area there i think that
you can insert my name is that right that's where i can write my name okay so gary will go
in there will it yeah on well i don't think seriously so we'll fight over that later
so you've got a legacy tool i'd like to just thank you for that one
okay so you've seen in this video again this tool i believe can perhaps save electricians time can
it because it goes from 0.08 millimetres all the way up to 16 millimetres it's also got the
ability to cut those conductors as well as strip the insulation off around the copper conductors
as well it does fine stranded stranded and solid cable so therefore we believe it's a tool that can
save electrician's time you know how we like that efix we're always interested in your comments have
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