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2. Lineman's pliers - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Electrician - Wikipedia

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   Electricians use a range of hand and power tools and instruments. Two of the tools commonly used by electricians. The fish tape is used to pull conductors through conduits, or sometimes to pull conductors through hollow walls. The conduit bender is used to make accurate bends and offsets in electrical conduit. Some of the more common tools are:

4. Industrial arts - Wikipedia

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   Industrial arts is an educational program that features the fabrication of objects in wood or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine tools. Industrial Arts are commonly referred to as Technology Education. It may include small engine repair and automobile maintenance, and all programs usually cover technical drawing as part of the ...

5. Fish tape - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Pliers - Wikipedia

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   Special tools for making crimp connections in electrical and electronic applications are often called crimping pliers or crimpers; each type of connection uses its own dedicated tool. Parallel pliers have jaws that close in parallel to each other, as opposed to the scissor-type action of traditional pliers.

7. Klein Tools - Wikipedia

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   Klein Tools, Inc. is an American company based in Lincolnshire, IL that manufactures hand tools. The company is known for its popularity with workers in the electrical [1] [2] [3] and telecommunications [4] [5] industries. Lineman's pliers in the past were often called "Kleins," an example of a genericized trademark.

8. Diagonal pliers - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Wire stripper - Wikipedia

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   A US-style simple manual crimping/wire stripper tool is a pair of opposing blades much like scissors or wire cutters.The addition of a center notch makes it easier to cut the insulation without cutting the wire.