today we're going to take a closer look at the Knipex CoBolt bolt cutters
cobalt so we must mean collaborative no gary it's not trying to be on trend it just simply
means compact okay and we've been using them around the workshop and you'll see some of
that footage in a minute we're going to take a real closer look at it and delve into some of
the great features of these bolt cutters so you ready for that gordon i am sorry we're in have a
look i'm just going to put my glasses on gary i'd suggest you do the same maybe some flying debris
okay i'm in yeah um socket bolt cutters well let's start with cutting a bolt okay here we
go so i'll just unleash the beast against just turn this little latch here to release it's got
a spring action so if you need to do repetitive cuts that's fantastic for that okay we'll come
back to it in a minute because that can annoy you on some other brands possibly a legacy tool
right here's a bolt three millimeter steel bolt dead easy yeah the people are going to be saying
i could use my side cutters for this Gordon you probably can use these side cutters and my advice
let's have a try would be the same bolt with a yeah a pair of probably cutters you've spent
a significant amount of money on if you want to destroy them or shorten their life significantly
using the cut bolts but even the effort required to cut up so let's watch your wrist as much as
anything else showing yeah so you'll see oh yeah oh another bit of shrapnel yeah and you can hear
that king across the workshop until it hit me yeah so yeah i wouldn't suggest it's a good idea to cut
but for them and you wouldn't certainly wouldn't be able to get up to the diameters you can get
with these okay so if we were cutting let's say a soft wire what would we be looking at for diameter
size on that yeah so this will cut up to six millimeter soft diameter wire okay medium hard
5.2 millimeters what about hard four millimeters and the one everybody's waiting to hear what about
piano wire piano y well if you're servicing pianos this will cut up to 3.6 millimeter piano wire
which i'm assuming is a very hard wire okay so you've got some um wire here to cut where would
you use this so this is a stainless steel wire we used previously to hang an extruded aluminium light
fitting so again they're quite popular with sort of decorative uh lighting suspension kits so again
that just chops through that very effortlessly it's also got if you look in here a little little
serrated feature there yeah you can see those it's just that's it that's a grip function so you need
to pull the wire first to get some tension in it right that's that's what that features for
when we first got these you got really excited about the mechanism on here can you explain why
you got excited yeah so on my legacy tool this this catch that obviously keeps it closed keeps
it compact in the toolbox um when i find when i'm using it it flops back down continuously so it's
sort of almost you're cutting away and suddenly oh it's latched again well this one runs to stay
out of the way i thought you were excited because it was covered in plastic the metal and you had
wooden handles on your one yeah we've gone back some time mate you couldn't make it up could you
okay so yeah really good and the only way to to prove how good they are is to put it to task so
we went around the workshop we collected up things that we knew it could cut and we pushed it to its
limit as well you ready to see that footage so let's push it to its limit to start with
and we'll work our way back so in with a bit of cable basket gordon yeah probably if you are going
to be working on cable basket with them you probably want the angled head version what's that
part number the part number is uh 71 22 200 and it's a 20 degrees angle on that head then so it
probably gets a little bit closer it was just to show the actual ability for it to cut the
wire basket itself so i've done that and i thought i'd go back and make itself a little easier
all right okay so yeah okay you're going to shorten some socket screws or the m 3.5
yeah it was like they weren't there i mean it was like yeah just ping ping yeah no effort at all to
cut those okay so that was that so then i thought well as most people call them bolt cutters i
thought i'd cut some bolts with them gordon right yeah well that's easy again biggest one in the box
that's an m6 i hope you don't knock the box over when you go for this with a strain the limit was
on my wrist I think more than anything else so you see yep snipped through no problem at all
oh yeah and this is what i bought mine actually for originally which is cut uh got builders
band abandoning what up this is actually pvc coated banding but yeah just chews through that
easily yeah it was yeah no effort whatsoever ah something i didn't think of gordon so if you're
hanging a high bay lights are possibly trunking from uh from a roof then you'll
be likely cutting some jack chain or if you're in the residential sector fitting a chandelier
memories of dell and rodney yes and then the catenary wire of course you'll be outside in
the coals trying to shorten that steel that's supporting or in this case a pvc cable which we
probably wouldn't recommend um yeah again great idea to be using these cutters for that as well
this is the world's longest catenary wire probably used as a washing line as well at that height
yeah loads of loads of applicators amazing how many you think of actually
areas where you might be as an electrician electrical contractor cutting steel then yeah
for me these an essential toolbox it also comes with a t version t version so t for what t so you
can add a tether to it so say you're working at height and you didn't want to drop them so from
a cherry picker basket or something you can't extract your hand yeah yeah yeah and yeah so
you add a T to the part number which for these ones this is the 71 32 200. and if you wanted
the ones with the 20 degrees angle that we talked about that was the 71 22 200 as well so there's a
couple there and T on the end for tethered as always we're interested in your comments are
you currently using these Knipex CoBolt cutters and how are you getting on with them is there
something we've missed we'd love the community to hear that feedback are you thinking about buying a
set of bulk cars and these ones from nipex are the ones that you're considering buying in the future
please leave all those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can