today we're going to look at this it's a din rail cutter from phoenix contact
can't be just called a din rail cutter gordon okay so finish contact us sent those products
before to have a look on the channel we've looked at the crimp fox and the uni fox okay and they've
got fox in common so this can't be from phoenix contact because it doesn't have the word fox in
it so i'm going to christen it the foxy din rail cutter for this video oh yes okay gary it is
yeah this is a specialist bitter kit now let's remember where phoenix contact live their market
is the panel builder it is and you're right those products i've looked at before fantastic ferrule
crimper and even a tool to pull your cable ties to the right tensile strength yeah and they were
great products and we love products on the channel that save electricians time so now we're going
to see if this dim railcar can save electrician's time do you agree with can yeah let's have a look
at how it works first gary okay let's put the dim rail cutter to work always we like to call it the
foxy dim rail cutter yeah just secured it to the bench obviously normally gordon i think you'd have
it to a metal plate or maybe a vice or a g-clamp is that correct yeah yeah lots of fixing options
and these eyes here are really important because it's the measurement here so that's the point of
which you go for your measurements if i wanted a hundred mil that's the position there i'd go to
lock it off yeah it's got a little stop that flips up okay yeah so we're at 100 mil and
then obviously we've got this arm that he stops it from going beyond that point so you you rest
your din rail against that for the cutting but look how far we can go so unscrew it let's have a
whistle along look how far we can get this back out here gordon yes go all the way up
to a meter long uh din rail which i suggest that's quite a large cabinet by the time we're
at that stage that's a lot of ferals okay so we can set it at 100 mil i'm going to cut the
dim rail at that length precisely doing it okay yeah so we've got two different uh sizes of dim
rail that we're going to use so that's the slightly larger one and this one i'm going to
start off with gordon seven and a half millimeters okay okay thank you for the measurement so we're
going to slide it in now so we're going to need to come around the other side in order to insert it
okay so there you go so we push it through and the stop block that's our 100 mil measurement okay
once i'm comfortable with it sim look at this that's it cut so we've got it there
just cut it through take it out and just go and move that block arm gas come on
yeah so move that out of the way in order to retrieve it beautiful nice straight smooth cut
so let's sit from the other side now gordon and we'll step up to the slightly larger stuff give me
the mills that's 15 millimeters thank you but look at the actual machine itself in this position you
couldn't cut it you can notice the two blocks are not in line the arm needs to be raised
levels off the side blocks and then obviously it can be inserted we're going to do 100 mil
again so there we go so down to the 100 mil point and again just pull something quite
satisfying about doing that as well like put on the part of beer gary yeah remarkably like it yeah
so let's have a look at them so we've got the ends now super smooth on those ends yep no file needed
and we're we're ready to go okay so there's a couple yeah let's just have a look at that
action again oh lovely just get yeah crunch crunch crunch yeah so guys another one
again the larger stuff 15 mil slide it in bar up so look here we go
okay oh would you ever use a hacksaw again yeah it's really easy
wow you made that look easy gary it was easy it looked easy okay so you know the advantages of
that obviously clean ends no filing or other preparation need you know cut your fingers on
those ends it's ready to go obviously it is a specialist bit of kit if you're a panel builder
that could be a huge time saver all was set up and ready to go just to cut these two profiles
of din rail yeah really good now they make some other things similar to this don't they that cuts
yeah again so they're in the yeah phoenix contact in that panel building world obviously the other
if you're using din rails you're probably going to be using a lot of this which is obviously slotted
trunking they also make a different version that's suitable for just cutting these as well
okay and when we talk about this it comes in two sections in it you can just buy the
cutting mechanism and then you can add the rule feature if you require that as well should we
have a look at some of these ends and see how clean the cuts work gordon let's have a look out
for is joe been out with his hacks already i think yeah when we did the din rail challenge with the
wee house screwdriver just check out that but yeah so you can see uh we can see some hacksaw
marks that might not be quite as straight as it could be okay yeah here's our one that's been
through oh wow through the machines your finger over that is yeah there's no preparation needed
no so i mean that's the end that comes out of the box right this is the end that's
been through the cutter so that is a nice clean edge you can't uh can't complain about that so
more time saving for no filing required almost yeah yeah does exactly what it says it's going to
do it cuts dim round whether it be seven mil or 15 mil i've got that right that's it because i always
like to correct me if i haven't and it just watch out of the box doesn't it bang bang bang off you
go and it's the panel builders world we looked at today not necessarily your day-to-day job in spark
however we'd still like your comments please leave those below is this a tool that you'd
idolize and would like to own is it a tool that you currently use and you've got some other great
features you want to share with the community maybe something we haven't mentioned gordon yeah
or is there another specialist tool that you're using whether you're panel builder or perhaps
you work in some other field that you think everyone else would benefit from taking a look at
please leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can