greetings earthlings adam savage here in my cave with a quick tool tip for you uh the reason it's
quick is because this is not a tool that i use very frequently i've actually never used it in
a mission critical circumstance but when i found out that it existed when i found out it existed
i needed to put one into my collection i mean i'm sort of an obsessive tool collector but also
you can't utilize a solution if you don't know that it exists and this is one of the
main things i get from watching youtube videos is i learn about tools i did not know about i
learned about techniques and things that didn't occur to me before and here is a youtube video
hopefully telling you about something you didn't know about uh if you have ever taken apart
a piece of military hardware you might have noticed that some of the screws are held in place
with twisted wires in fact they're torqued to a certain uh a specific torquage and then a wire is
threaded through the top of the nut which has a pre-drilled hole in it and that wire is twisted
and then wrapped so that that screw cannot move from its torqued location this is really common
on airplanes where the torquage of a screw in its specific position is completely mission
critical in fact many many many bolts and screws in a plane are wire twisted
in place but how does that twisting happen do you sit there with a pair of needle nose pliers and
no you use a pair of wire twist pliers i actually i'm not even sure i know the official name but
this is what they look like and let me show you how they work because it's pretty freaking cool
what happens is is you grab the end of your wire with these jaws and you press
into it and what happens if you see this little notch here has a little step that step
goes you squeeze this tight and put that up and now the jaws are locked they're locked shut okay
yeah and then this this twisty thing is how you twist the wire let me show you
i think i need to move in for a close-up of this all right
i'm going to use some soft wire for this and i've got a little vise set up this is just
some basic aluminum armature wire but it will really uh demonstrate what i'm talking about
and i'll do this twice for camera so let's say
that the screw you're threading through i mean this doesn't have to be for building
your airplane it can literally be for any reason you need wires twisted together around something
so let's say that these two wires are sticking out of either side of the screw that i want to secure
i bring these jaws up i bring these jaws to bear on the end of the wire like this
oh i can see that i'm gonna have to pan up
there we go i bring these jaws to the ends of the wire like this and like i said i squeeze here and
then i slide this catch up now the jaws are held in place and all i need to do is pull on this bag
and it twists the wires dude right i mean that is so lovely i'll tell you what do you need twisted
wires for well if you wanted to make yourself a diy animation armature for claymation or for
stop-motion animation in your house you almost certainly want to use twisted wires because they
will bend more times without breaking than a single solid wire in fact i think you want to
use like three or four wires in order to do that um these pliers again i didn't pay a ton for them
but they are it is one of those things i am glad i know about because at a certain point
in my life i will need these and they will be here so here's how these work
uh you grab your wire in these jaws like this and you grab both wires with the jaws now you
want to hold on to that really tight so the way you do that is with this little catch you see
that catch that catch will go into this hole and be captured by this piece of metal so i squeeze
i squeeze and then slide that up okay now it's captured it's pre-loaded so it's sprung shut
and i've got a really positive grip on those two wires there right okay
now let's say those wires are running through a vise or some such running through a nut here we go
dude
that is a beautiful twisted wire
and then to release it all i need to do is squeeze it and this is spring-loaded back so watch this
oh and now it opens and now my wire is totally released like i said these are
used in airplane manufacturing a ton i just wanted you to know about them there you have
it thank you guys for joining me for this very quick tool tip i will see you next time