Pliers and Cutting Tools

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MUST HAVE TOOLS for any Electrician Apprentice? HERE THEY ARE!

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The electrician moves on to pliers and cutting tools, which he considers essential. He lists diagonal cutters, a must-have for any electrician, followed by lineman's pliers, crucial for twisting connections and ensuring mechanical integrity. He then shows needle-nose pliers, ideal for reaching into tight spaces and handling box knockouts. Channel locks are presented as useful for gripping larger connectors, particularly in service work. For cutting metal, he features Milwaukee tin snips, useful for materials like lighting fixtures. He also mentions a smaller pair of 'baby' needle-nose pliers for even finer work or retrieving dropped items in confined areas, and finally, wire strippers, which are essential for 14-gauge to 10-gauge wires, and cable cutters for heavier 6-gauge wires, often encountered during electric vehicle charger installations.

Goal: Exhibit various pliers and cutting tools for electrical wiring and installation.

Tools and materials

Baby Needle-Nose Pliers Klein Tools — Fine motor tasks, retrieving small dropped items in tight spaces
Cable Cutters Klein Tools — Cutting larger gauge electrical cables, like 6-gauge wire
Channel Locks Channellock — Gripping and turning various connectors and pipes
Diagonal Cutters Klein Tools — Cutting wires
Lineman's Pliers Klein Tools — Twisting wires for connections and general gripping
Needle-Nose Pliers Klein Tools — Reaching into tight spaces, bending small wires, and removing box knockouts
Tin Snips Milwaukee — Cutting metal, such as lighting fixture components
Wire Strippers Klein Tools — Stripping insulation from 14-gauge to 10-gauge wires

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quarter inch to 1 in. Now, we have here these are your essentials. Ready? Diagonal cutters. You need these lineman's. Every electrician, doesn't matter what you're doing, needs a pair of lineman's. Twisting your connections, making sure they're mechanical. This is our hammer, guys. Right. This is our hammer. Right. We just go. What? Needle nose. Okay. I highly recommend every electrician have needle nose, you know, for box knockouts, for tight spaces. Channel locks. Channel locks are good, guys, because you want to, you know, get some certain connectors off. Like you need that, you need that grab to just, you know, grab a big connector. Get channel locks. These are good for services. I like to This is not a must have tool, guys, but I like to carry a pair of tin snips. All right, these are Milwaukee, but tin snips are nice, you know, to cut certain metal if you have to, you know, for like lighting fixtures or something. Here I have here is a foldable keyhole saw. Get the foldable one. This is Milwaukee. I had a normal one that didn't fold and it was just it was cutting up my backpack because of the teeth on this thing. So, I had to get a foldable one. Highly recommend. Allen key set. You need an Allen key set, guys. Don't get individual Allen keys. It's just going to cause a mess. Definitely highly recommend just to get a set. This is Klein tools and it has all these different ones, different sizes. And let's say I find the right Allen. It has a nice grip. For me, it's baby needlense. You know, let's say you just something drops or like you need to grab a wire in a tight space. Baby needlense. Wire strippers. All right. This is probably the most important or one of the most important stripping your wires. It goes anywhere from 14 gauge to 10 gauge wire. Got cable cutters. We do a lot of electric vehicle charger installs in New Jersey. So, six gauge. I like to cut wire with that. And then

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