today we're going to take a look at ideal industries twin and earth strippers
as you would say twin and cpc
i usually use a knife well if you usually use a knife i'll have them thank you very much you can
use a knife that's what you'd normally do is it in a previous life yes i was uh fond of the knife
however i think by the end of this video you can see that i'm quite fond of these now yeah yeah and
these we've featured these a lot on the channel in our videos because we've been using these for
about the last six months actually extensively so we thought it's about time we actually did
a review so we can share the fun with everybody else right so we've got a section of cables in
front of us we've got uh twin and cpc sorry twin and earth cables we've got a flat flex we've got
single uh stranded cables as well i'm gonna put it through its paces so first of all let's just
do a little bit of technical stuff it goes up to 2.5 millimeter squared cable is that correct
on the conductor size yes it does and that's about 12mm in diameter for your twin and cpc cables
so we think it'll cop all the way up to twin and earth carry it'll cup all the way up to your flat
three corners yeah okay following or three chords cpc well okay if we don't get too confused right
so we're gonna bring hand cannon because we just love doing this don't we okay so let's bring hank
come and we're going to start yeah i'll start well we'll start with the 2.5 2.5 now we've got
a couple of selections of different 2.5s here so let's be careful which one you choose first
let's test it out gary on a non-cable got our doncaster cables twin under here that we'll use a
oh look at that yes so let's uh bring the
cable in you can see you can go all the way through the body of the stripper
okay so if you get the strip back a lot say you're doing something in the consumer unit you just keep
on pushing out there forever okay let's just go at the end just get a nice close-up from here
it's quite satisfying nice and easy yeah and go back in for the conductors
there you go strips both them at once yeah i like it
so that's doncaster cables we need a little cross reference what's the uh second 2.5 millimeter
i've been clearing out your garage gary because i found some ai cables here for electrical industry
trivia if anyone knows what AEI stands for bang a comment below okay still blue and brown though
yeah still bloom brown but they don't make cable anymore so this is it's a little older than a
little older but let's be good to see what on an older cable okay pass it in again press it through
okay this will look yeah and then see how much french took out yes slips off again going back
in for the inner in the conductors yeah no issues then nice something's quite satisfying about it
as well isn't that so that's the 2.5 millimeter squared cable it goes up to 12 mil in diameter i
mean in other words the width of the cable which cable you're going to go for now that's got the
opposite end of the twin and earth spectrum okay going for one mill yeah there's a one mil so again
just slip it through so pass it through lighting you might have a longer longer lens required yeah
yeah obviously the ease of removing the outer down how much chalk in the cable nothing to do with
yeah so again let's go back in for the conductors yeah look at that doing both at once so that is
a time saver okay three core is a little wider unless you've got a one spring again there's a
different manufacturer we don't know who Altin is but there we go I think well we'll give it a go
uh so again here so three three four three corner for three card tweet cpc games record yeah i
can see the cpc now over here yeah so can we do three condoms okay i'm holding on then let's see
of course you can yeah brilliant nice so let's put it through its paces on twin earth cable
and we knew it was going to come up trumps on that we think it can do other things it can do
singles kind of we can got some singles here and we've got some flat uh flex as well which
we're going to give it a try with as well so you don't want your singles first singles first yes
conduit wire okay yep here we go yeah i think about it nice and easy yep yeah hold here wrong
yeah you'd have your toolbox every day of the week wouldn't you yeah okay so two core here two core
flat flex i think that's 0.75 is that the smallest it can go down to it it is the smallest you can
handle so yeah one two i wouldn't like that we haven't tried it on a round flex okay this is
flat it is a flat cable stripper again put it in there oh wow inner conductors again two at once
yeah so let's go in close there's no you know check to see if there's any damage at the the
conduct till we know it's good and they're not in the was uh either so nice that worked well
we like them a lot okay these ideal industries twin and nerf strippers however
we have put them to the test where they've failed they've they've not stripped the cable as required
was it a failing of the stripping tool no we think it's the cable because yeah you even
you struggle gary with your proven knife method okay yeah i can get it off with a knife could
i so we've got a cable here we call this the ugly cable we've done a video uh where we put
this through its paces along with some other 2.5 millimeter square cabin it wasn't just the fact
that it was probably lacking french chalk it was also a little bit smaller than 2.5 wasn't it yeah
less copper yeah so we're going to show you that again so it might be a case if you've done a
second fix and you go in and start using these ideal industries uh twin nerve strippers and
you think all the stripping tools letting you down it isn't it's the cable going to let you
down is that the one yeah so this is worth this is worth seeing up close it's very difficult to find
actually who made it okay so yeah there we go then so wait for it yep i do like this nice and close
so ah wonderful that's that's a nice trick you've got all the uh inner insulation and the outer
insulation off in one go do you wanna do it again let's have another guy that's a little look so
yeah yeah it's not at all no and that's yeah and you proved the same when you used your knife to
try and strip it yeah i mean i i don't want to go through that process again it was really really
difficult to hack bits of the outer pvc off it's the cables issues not the stripping tools issues
so we've done twinning cpc cables 20 earth gary you nearly are those people in australia there
was a small delay there for you son okay so yeah we've got twin twitter earth cables we've done
flat flex we've done single core cables and we showed it on an ugly cable but i know what you're
thinking you think that's great you're doing it on the bench top it's ever so easy on the bench top
so what we did we put it to practice out there in industry didn't we so shall we see that next
so let's put them to a test in the real life situation so we're into the box gentle squeeze you
can see how much cables come through got plenty of cable there for a second fixing so you can't
go right up to the grommet in here so there's going to be some of the outer sheath inside the
box certainly is okay and as you look there i think that's acceptable for the accessory we're
going to be putting on yeah obviously depends on the depth of the box and the accessory you're
going to be fitting it does and just a little closer when you just see it now squeeze down
and then look how easy it is just to pull these off it's slightly different obviously if you're
in a dry line box because you've obviously got the ability therefore to move the cables around
a little bit more than you have in that tyler box so draw line box i'm going to
strip these back quite a long way away from the point at which it comes into the box
at the desired length gordon getting a bit generous with those cables
yeah okay but we know what's going to happen next is obviously once we strip these back we can
obviously move the cables back into the wall so strip them off super easy and then you're at your
removing position insulation two conductors at the same time that's good yeah i pull them off look at
that can't get much easier than that does it prove when a fluke so you bite down pulls them back
slide them off this tool will speed up this gordon doing the old down lights
straight in it's good how the cable actually passes through the body so you can get here and
get right the way of the cable there yeah slide them off and of course we've got the ability
then just to nip the conductor insulation off as well depending on the length required for
the downlight again it's two conductors at once which is a big time saver it is
so there we have it didn't we you made that look easy gary thank you thank you that's because it
is easy this makes it look easy yeah anyone can do that it's the tool that obviously makes it
a dream to start that second fix process is there any other tools that we've got that we've
used from ideal industries that are worth checking out on the channel god we have actually so if you
if you're not in this world of twin and earth or twin and cpc check out some of the reviews we've
done on the data cable and the ft 45 which is a great tool for putting those plugs on the end of
cat6 cables and again i really really like that tool so again check out that review
as always we're interested in your comments are you currently using ideal industries twin and
earth strippers and get confused with this cpc are you currently using them how are you getting
on with them is it your go-to tool when you're second fixing are you thinking about getting
a set please leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can