today we're going to take a look at the electrical installation pliers from Knipex
well you're not Gordon
so those keen-eyed amongst you have noticed that this isn't Joe and isn't Gordon either
introduce yourself. my name's Craig i am the director of Giffords Electrical Limited
Craig has followed us up and down the country at our live feed events and he reached out to us on
social media and said can we come up to lineside studios to see you and gordon we said absolutely
so we've booked him in and we set you to work when you got here what are you expected to do
uh the challenge wall okay so we've got this challenge wall set up again into the studios
and you'll be seen on our live um streams so create set a time on that wall but you can now
use your own tools Craig fantastic and you chose one tool in particular what did you do the Knipex
six in one electrical installation pliers okay six in one so we're gonna cover some of those features
some of those we don't think are as strong as others but the features that are strong here
are fantastic so where would we like to start what function would you show me first i would like to
show you the uh the main cutting function okay so that's a is that a cable shear it is a cable shear
okay so you can take 25 millimeter squared uh tails eat and it will cut it with very
very easily very easy look at that just pop that straight off okay I have another car i
have another go why not plenty of tails here okay yeah that looks effortless yep that was
that was the one feature that i was drawn to the cable shear element of it because you've now got
your shears and effectively what we're going to go with pliers in there yeah got the ability to
strip conductors up to 2.5 yep anything from 0.7 up to 2.5 and it also can do another function
that we like at efix what's that crimping so it can also crimp conductors up to 2.5 it is
not 0.5 to 2.5 let's go there next then let's get the cable out i think that's a 1.5 you're going to
have to strip it first and we'll see the stripping functions let's have a little closer look so so
that's the top hole there the other stripping so you just slide it down and then you can just pull
off all right okay really good and then we've got some ferals down here while you're twisting up so
we've got some 1.5 ferrules and you said it crimps up to it 2.5 if I slide twice so the crimp is this
v-shaped here okay yeah that's a fight slide that in up to the space is it gonna flatten one side is
it it'll put a v in it all right okay so push down and then nice curved side and then pull that v oh
like that and then of course you can just trim the end off of course in order to strip them off
okay so it's cable sheets it's a pair of pliers it strips conductors up to 2.5 and it also crimps up
to 2.5 let's see you strip a 2.5 mil and double the ends over because the bit that i would be
mildly concerned for my style of doubling over is the width of the actual section at the end
which is more like a long nose period it is more like a long nose yeah so let's have a look at you
showing me an expert way of doing this 2.5 so again you can strip two five
just a simple squeeze and pull that was easy and then just a case of getting used to this this is
slightly different technique than i'm used to in order to double those over you gave yourself
a hard task there make it nice and smooth i did that though and it yeah did it with ease
okay cut it off yeah cut it off with those shears again because i like that yeah effortless guys so
you used it on our challenge wall did when are you using in the industry second fix
really okay so it's your second fix go-to tool that is hanging out your pocket because you can
obviously, strip the conductors for sockets and lights etc double the ends over and you've got
the ability if you're at the mains end even cutting your towels off are you currently
using the electrical installation pliers from Knipex if you are can you leave those comments
below how are you finding that tool is it your go-to tool have you used all six functions maybe
you've used the end which we think is a little bit weaker maybe for deburring we're always interested
in your comments please leave them below and craig's gonna get back to as many as he can