today we're looking at this brand new tool from knipex
the bix that was originally designed for plumbers
well the plumbers gary we know plumbing these days is incredibly easy because everything's
just plastic pipe you know they don't do much with copper anymore if they do it tends to be push fit
you don't see them threading steel pipe anymore so we thought we'd join in the fun and see where
we can use this tool with some electrical round based products gary okay that's what was given
to me i will leave a link in the description to gordon's personal email address for you
plumbers out there want to reach out to him on a one-to-one basis so i liked it i really did like
it i was cutting conduits i was cutting flexicon so do you want to bring the hang come in to have
a look at it closer look at what we've got here so first of all let's just lay it in the hand
and you can see straight away how the fingers match the grip that they've provided for you
like that and it's locked in position so imagine i've got it in my toolbox in order to unlock it
just do simple there and we can open it out to use it and it will do diameter of pipe between 20 and
50 ml so we're right up at 50mm which is really good and you can just see there the cutting blade
and for me for the conduits i've been um doing in the video i would have the blade in this position
you can reverse it i will reverse it in a minute but i think the majority of time will stay in
that position and when you're thinking of it in that position you need to make sure you get it
to the mark that you've made on the conduit or flexicon there are three positions there's one
here at the top that says that's dead center the blue mark back here for dead center and a little v
mark as well so you've got three options to get it in exactly the right position
okay oh no excuses not to get it in so yeah you've lost that now yeah and i said the blade
can be reversed we will show uh an application for reversing i'll show you how to reverse is another
little hidden surprise as well so we back off this screw in order that we can flick the blade round
take that and then we just pull it away so you see how easy that came out and the blade
itself can be changed if we undo this screw and obviously i can just slide that back into position
i'll just pop it back in there and i can do it up if i wanted the blade on the front edge now
i'm thinking they're going spare blades do they have to be bought yeah well you can buy spare
blades but what's quite nice is you might be able to see in their little hidden compartment oh yeah
secret compartments that got a five pound in there gary is that where you've been hiding it then
nobody takes cash anymore so if i just back the screw off a little bit more just to make it a
little bit easier just pull those away a little packet there and we're opening out your two spare
blades all right here you can see that hole where the fix the screw goes to change the blades over
and again just whichever way round you want it i think it's going to be that way around
for the most times that electricians are going to be using it going to be popping it in right there
and obviously using it that's a pretty simple concept yeah well designed you said simple i
think sometimes simple doesn't mean well designed that that the way it held in my hand how easy it
was to reverse the blade and the little hidden compartment nice nice workout i guess we'll have
to see actually how he got in in real life using it on some common electrical materials
this is a traditional method over the knee with a junior hacksaw and we'll just cut your conduit
a little bit raggy that end game i think you're gonna have to clean that up before the glue goes
on so in with the bics nice squeeze in this case i'm twisting the conduit around you'll notice the
conduit's held in the Knipex BiX and nice clean end yeah that's good okay here's our favorite the flexicon
yeah normally they do have a special cutter for this but probably not everyone has one
look at that clean as anything 50 mil done quick it was quick so i'll prove it on the
traditional method obviously it's going to take a little bit longer and again my old favorite you
have to pick it up off the floor when you get through oh and the raggy end yeah absolutely
so precision now so i want to cut this one so i lose the green marks on white conduit you don't
want a big mark on it's three positions on here as stated earlier that we can line it up with
so i'm going to bring it in line it up in the correct position and you see how precise this
one is i'll get it so the off cut has the green pen mark on it okay twist the conduit round
yeah yeah but wait look at that for precision not bad gary thank you very much again nice
clean end remember the hockey stick this time so you see the meter box around there so a little bit
thicker on the walls and you'll see i've score round as i go around and then eventually you'll
see a slight difference in it where it gets a little deeper and up there penetrated through
and obviously now i'm breaking through all the way around for a clean end wow that's quite a
hard pipe as well that's probably it's maximum remember it's 2.4 mil change the blade round
we've seen this previously didn't we how we popped the blade into a different position and now i'm
just going to try and flush it off against this mimic joist maybe this is a case of you know i
don't know the cable that's going to pass through this is maybe going through some polystyrene beads
yeah that's a flush cut so let's see it then i'm going to pull it in see the blade now and
just compress quite firmly so you can see the blade just pops in and you just see that cutting
motion go around and again a nice clean end as we pop it and again nothing on the floor you notice
so you made that look pretty easy gary but i know you've shown a hacksaw then most people are going
to be going oh well you'd have a plastic conduit cutter yeah you would and they're obviously a
lot larger take a little bit more real estate up in your toolbox so obviously this is a lot more
compact and also we've done it ourselves and we use those as handheld ones for cutting it
sometimes you get the the conduit to fly off in a different direction where i like the fact that the
the bics actually held the part in right so i didn't have to bend down wow that now you don't
like bend out to pick up a bit of conduct drop to the floor let me demonstrate yeah yeah yeah
yes yeah let's just do that watch this yeah here we go yeah okay i'll do it again
yeah off you go again i would like your feedback do you like picking stuff off the floor like
gordon does would you like it to be held within in this case the bix and we'll hold it in position
you've got the two parts to separate we're always interested in your feedback on everything we do
have you currently use this tool from Knipex are you using the bix cutter to cut your conduit
did you realize that it goes all the way up to 50ml and you think of yourself now all my kind
of cutters i've got only do 20 and 25 mil and i'm working with larger conduits and therefore this
would be ideal and also maybe you like the fact that it takes up less real estate please leave
all those comments below and gordon will get back to every single one of them especially if you're a
plumber