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Ideal Industries is an American company that produces connectors, hand tools, testers, and meters for the electrical and telecommunications industries. [2]The company manufactures many of its products in the United States. [3]
Lineman's pliers are used in the electrical trade to cut, straighten, and bend wire, and also to twist wires together when making splices. Lineman's can be used to strip wire and some types of cable, although wire strippers are more commonly used for this purpose as they can strip wire more quickly without damaging the conductors themselves.
Based at first in Tautz' garage, Delta Specialty Company thrived, first making small tools for home shops and later expanding into light industrial machinery. In 1945, Rockwell Manufacturing Company acquired Delta Machinery and renamed it the Delta Power Tool Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Company and continued to manufacture in Milwaukee.
K-D Tools – mechanic's hand and specialty tools; K&F – files and rasps; Kahnetics – Dispensing systems. Lufkin – Manufactures measuring tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin was Cooper's first hand tool acquisition in 1967. Mayle – Mechanic's hand tools; Nicholson – Produces files, rasps, and saws ...
A fish tape (also called a draw wire, draw tape, or an electrician ' s snake) is a tool used by electricians to route new wiring through walls and electrical conduit. [1]Made of a narrow band of spring steel, by careful manipulation, the tape can be guided through confined spaces such as wall cavities or conduits in many countries.
Xcelite was founded in 1921 by F. Birney Farrington (1886-1962), as the Park Metalware Company, Inc., a small metalworking shop in Orchard Park, New York. [2] John Zilliox’s (1874-1971) U.S. patent 1,386,217 for an adjustable wrench, launched the company into manufacturing hand tools for worldwide distribution.
The term snips commonly refers to larger items, not to those used for cutting electrical wiring etc. In Canada, Australia and New Zealand too, the items are often referred to as side cutters. Diags, dykes or dikes is jargon used especially in the US electrical industry to describe diagonal pliers. "Dike" can also be used (but only colloquially ...
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