Views: 61 Author: SEILSOUL Publish Time: 2019-02-19 Origin: Site
There are three common hand tools that you will need for any electrical service work- cutters, crimpers, and strippers. You can buy one tool that does them all, but it won’t do any of them as well as separate tools will.
Cutters – You must have good, sharp cutters. Diagonal cutters, also known as side cutters or “dikes”, are the most common and most useful. Buy a full-size set that is large enough to handle most wire sizes, mini-cutters are not very good for larger wires. For battery cables and really big wire (4-gauge or bigger), a pair of hose cutters or garden cutters works really well.
Strippers – There are two kinds of wire strippers– manual and automatic. The automatic strippers lock the wire in the jaws, cut and pull the insulation off of the wire in one action. These are really nice and useful if you are working under a dash. Manual strippers, which are what most people have in their tool box, cut the insulation only, you have to pull the wire and tool to separate the insulation. Automatic strippers are not very expensive ($20-40) and worth the extra cost if you do much electrical work. Just make sure you use the right size hole for the wire you are working with.
Crimpers – Everything from cheap $3 tools to $200 crimpers are available, but most are in $10-20 range. A good pair of crimpers will last forever and save you many headaches (and blood blisters) along the way. Cheap multi-tool crimpers are junk, stay away from them. You want a tool that can handle at least 3 sizes of crimps- red, blue and yellow insulated terminals. With that, you can accomplish most every job you will face. Specialty crimpers, like the ones required for metri-pack and weather-pack terminals cost a little more and only have the one function.
With these electrical tools in your tool box, there should not be much you can’t handle on the side of the road. Don’t forget to keep a roll of 3M Super 33 electrical tape and a service pack of fuses and terminals for those pesky little electrical gremlins that shut you down on the side of the road.
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