Lineman pliers predate crimping connectors and crimping tools by about a
hundred years I would guess...They have a wire cutter and the bill is wide
for gripping wires and twisting them... I think they were used to wire the
telegraph wires to the insulators on the poles. Now I use a electricians
tool which is a wire cutter, crimping, screw cutter and wire stripper all in
one, ..Bob M
In a message dated 1/13/2009 5:18:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rclark@robertsonclark.com writes:
Perhaps the key is
proper crimping with the right tool and not just using a pair of
lineman's pliers that most of us are guilty of using.
OK, I would like to line up Bob's url _http://tinyurl.com/98mxxy_
(http://tinyurl.com/98mxxy) and the statement about lineman's pliers. An
electrician gave me what he said is a "proper" crimping tool and it makes a
crimp that
looks just like what Bob has posted. I thought the things were lineman's
pliers. Maybe not. I have crimped a connection and then clamped it in the
vice
to do a little destructive testing. It held very well.
What gives?
David Lylis
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