today we're going to look at these Knipex electronic Super Knips XL will be the first
time i've got anywhere near them yeah that's because electronic it's not normally the world
you live in you live in the world of chunky copper cables and traditional side cutters however we
are seeing more and more electronics creep in to the electrical industry and we think these will
rapidly become an electrician's toolbox essential okay let's compare them to those traditional side
cutters and you show me some of the differences okay so probably the key difference when you look
at electronic side cutters is this beveled edge so on here's your traditional chunky copper cable
cutters that probably everyone has in the toolbox and you'll see that beveled edge down there
whereas if you look at these Super Knips the side cutters this is completely flush between the two
sides and what's the advantage of having that then so normally in the electronic environment
it's designed to get close to circuit boards right however when we think about electricians
doing things so let's just take a cable tie there again we'll flush up the edge of the cable tie i'm
gonna slice the excess off there and you can see a bit of a nice smooth edge right okay yeah that is
really close right in there but if i compare that with the traditional cycle and that beveled edge
you think you can be a bit further away so there you go oh yeah you can see that yeah not massive
but enough to have to catch your finger and in some cases yield some of the red stuff um so
these are great so we've picked the 140 version i know we love a part number so this is the
7861140 so the 140 being the length of the cutter 15 millimetres longer than the standard one right
okay and so we think that's probably the best for an electrician who wants to use them for
other purposes than just slicing plastic cable ties the other advantage being that this will cut
1.4 millimetre steel wire okay yeah and we've got some applications we've also used it on Gary yes
we have is it me or is it difficult with a normal pair of side cutters to remove that piece of
string yeah it is and it can be difficult even to cut very fine wires and that's what we've got here
in this security cable now we're just going to demonstrate how fine you can cut guy giving this
a haircut what's the biggest challenge here Gary my eyes are the camera and you're always trying to
see what you're doing yeah so once you've actually found the individual strands it's amazing and how
precise you can trim them i don't know why you need to give one a haircut but if you did you can
again just definitely cutting through the actual cable itself and then let's look at that other
application we know what happens when you leave a nice sharp cable tie end yeah it's like almost
like a paper cut and it's the deepest cut you ever have if it's a sharp and that flush edge on that
cutter comes in okay a little trick we've done before we found this a little bit more difficult
than this is going to look look how easy that is yes again you can cut right up to the surface on
something if you try to cut to a template well it wouldn't be an eFIXX video if we didn't at some
point get the ferrules and the feral crimping tool out but there's always that debate about how much
of the conductors we should leave poking through the ferrule yeah we usually say between point
one and one millimetres pen on the conductor size crimping up here some six millimetre H07
rubber cable but even regardless of where you are on how long that should be you often have to trim
it because if the cable itself has been bent not the strands won't all be the same length we're
just nipping them off there yeah there's something really satisfying about just trimming those back
they look beautiful don't they just there they are almost flush with the end of the ferrule
so the other end of the scale we've got some steel cable ties here we just want to take the
take the end off before it takes the end of your finger off yeah and it's
really important that we get it nice and flush on any sharp edges and obviously
how important it is to support cable systems to prevent premature collapsing with a metal tie
so it does a good job at that so this will will handle up to a 1.4 millimetre uh steel
um cable and here's the other one obviously we've made a mistake or we need to reroute that cable
how do you remove the ties and often then you go in and you're sort of wrenching around trying to
snap them but it cuts effortlessly yeah with that small head you can really easily get in there
here's another common application we've seen our favorite led strip so just using there to part
some ribbon cable apart and then you can use them for stripping if you're adept with your wrists
you may want to use the PreciStrip that's a favorite of ours here at eFIXX
so here's another common application cutting some led strip and again it's trying to get it
perfectly between the two points so that's cut it absolutely spot on before we obviously solder
these ends up they look a little bit long to me yeah so i always tend a bit long then just trim
them back to the size of the pads on the led strip we're going to attach to another feature i noticed
about these Knipex Super Knips XL is the fact that the handles are sprung compared to those
traditional cycles yeah so spring-loaded yeah so here's that again here's our traditional cycle
isn't there yeah they flop around uh but these for for repetitive operations these are very very
light in the hand you're not going to you're not going to get any RSI through using these
all and it also states on there does it the diameters of cables that they can cut
is that it is yep it's alongside so early we've got the 1.4 millimetre steel and also
2.1 millimetre copper and that's a diameter not cross-sectional area okay yeah and having that
spring loading pack you know obviously saving the wrist doesn't it so when we're working
in those sort of environments and we've shown that fine precision stuff that you're quite right that
i should be left nowhere near should i go on no but yeah if you're if you're installing data
and obviously data is creeping into everything from the EV chargers through to obviously solar
panels and obviously those that upsell into a rewire everyone should be doing a bit of data
we think these are essential and you will see the difference in you know those terminations
a lot easier when you've got some of these but what do you think yeah as always we're interested
in your feedback these super nips exhales have you got a set do you think they're brilliant have you
got something else that you want to throw into the mix that Knipex have got leave all those comments
below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can and of course i will leave a link in the
description where you can go off and see how much they are yeah i'd like a set of these not online