New Tool Day

[Zorba]

I found them on Amazon. Available in 4", 5", 6".

Strangely, the button for the 4" one is labeled 4-inch revolver 357. I got excited, but it's just another cable tie cutter.

I would have LOVED to have had the 6 inch version of this years back at work. As it is, I'm buying the 4 inch version now, and emailing the link to the guys that are doing my old job.

 

[Apparition]

I would have LOVED to have had the 6 inch version of this years back at work. As it is, I'm buying the 4 inch version now, and emailing the link to the guys that are doing my old job.

If you have the space get a quality zip tie gun.

 

[Zorba]

If you have the space get a quality zip tie gun.

I never really cared for them.

 

[John Cooper]

Ok as far as anymore free buckets from HF, stopped by on the way taking Dad to church and they had run out of buckets Saturday night.

No problem as they will run the sale in a couple if months........

 

[thedustyboot]

Picked up the new 3/8" Milwaukee sub-compact impact. Weighs just 1.6lbs (without a battery) and claims 225 ft-lbs on loosening and 200 ft-lbs on tightening. The size of this thing is incredible, compared in the picture to an average wallet.

I snagged the same tool a couple months ago after using one at work came with a 5ah battery and charger. As far as claimed torque, I tried taking my wheel nuts off my daily (torqued to ~85-90ftlb) using this little impact and one of the small 1.5ah batteries that came with my electric ratchet and it wouldn't budge the wheel nuts.. So I swapped for the 5ah battery the tool came with and it buzzed those wheel nuts off like nothing.

Keep that in mind when using the tool in the future aside from that little hiccup it's my most used impact. I do a fair bit of small engine repair and it's been a game changer.

 

[Weasellee]

Given I see a fair bit of zip tie work in the near future with the LJ, picked up a tool I'd qualify as "not absolutely necessary but damn handy to have", a pair of cable tie tensioner/flush cutter pliers.

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If you cut your excess zip tie off with this you leave a sharp edge. I teach my helpers to twist to cut whenever possible.

 

[sab]

After thousands and thousands of cable ties installed, I've never had need for anything other than standard flush-cutters. I lightly grip the tie to pull it tight and then reposition to cut flush. Those fancy pliers seem like a solution to a non-existent problem to me. Properly used, flush cutters get the job done every time!

 

[Zorba]

If you cut your excess zip tie off with this you leave a sharp edge. I teach my helpers to twist to cut whenever possible.

Oh yea, you certainly can! Ask me how I know... You gotta get right up against the ratchet dingus that holds it.

 

[Zorba]

After thousands and thousands of cable ties installed, I've never had need for anything other than standard flush-cutters. I lightly grip the tie to pull it tight and then reposition to cut flush. Those fancy pliers seem like a solution to a non-existent problem to me. Properly used, flush cutters get the job done every time!

That's basically what that tool is - but with an added grip to pull tight with.

 

[chili_pepper]

f you cut your excess zip tie off with this you leave a sharp edge.

I would beg to differ, and in saying that I should note that I have used them since purchase. Check the cutting edge grind.

After thousands and thousands of cable ties installed, I've never had need for anything other than standard flush-cutters.

I have installed a few myself. I am glad your standard flush cutters are working for you.

Those fancy pliers seem like a solution to a non-existent problem to me.

They aren't actually "fancy", and I would say they definitely provide a solution when working in tight areas (if nowhere else), but maybe you don't deal with that often. I have more times than I can recall and I don't own any cutters with this fine of a tool head as well, so I purchased them.

For the record, my tool collection would indicate I don't buy things that don't serve a purpose (and typically fill a need, sometimes a desperate one). I have limited space for everything. If it don't work, it ain't ridin'.

Properly used, flush cutters get the job done every time!

Well, clearly I don't know how to use mine properly then!

 

[Zorba]

We actually had a pair of VERY nice flush cutters - they were more "flush" than most, and nice and sharp. We kept them hidden from the boss - he'd fuck them up if he found them.

 

[Apparition]

They aren't actually "fancy", and I would say they definitely provide a solution when working in tight areas (if nowhere else), but maybe you don't deal with that often. I have more times than I can recall and I don't own any cutters with this fine of a tool head as well, so I purchased them.

This is the fancy way. Helps to have a Panduit salesman in the family, I keep a set in the trail bag incase I want perfectly cut & tensioned ties on the trail.


View: https://youtu.be/KLcne3uIprE?si=S8fnjLcoLBQou9Fb

 

[sab]

They aren't actually "fancy", and I would say they definitely provide a solution when working in tight areas (if nowhere else), but maybe you don't deal with that often. I have more times than I can recall and I don't own any cutters with this fine of a tool head as well, so I purchased them.

Yeah, crawling into an Indy car cockpit with only enough room for one arm above your head to tie the harness around the foot pedal assembly isn't cramped at all...

I'll die clutching my trusty side-cutters.

 

[sab]

This is the fancy way. Helps to have a Panduit salesman in the family, I keep a set in the trail bag incase I want perfectly cut & tensioned ties on the trail.


View: https://youtu.be/KLcne3uIprE?si=S8fnjLcoLBQou9Fb

Now there's an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't exist (unless you're working on airframes, where it's required). I have a very old version of that (it's mil-surp). I used it on one job where it was useful. Very small, easily-broken ties. That cut down re-work considerably.

 

[Zorba]

This is the fancy way. Helps to have a Panduit salesman in the family, I keep a set in the trail bag incase I want perfectly cut & tensioned ties on the trail.


View: https://youtu.be/KLcne3uIprE?si=S8fnjLcoLBQou9Fb

That thing looks like a "Deer Gun". Never saw one like it before. The ones I used were considerably cruder looking.

 

[chili_pepper]

This is the fancy way. Helps to have a Panduit salesman in the family, I keep a set in the trail bag incase I want perfectly cut & tensioned ties on the trail.


View: https://youtu.be/KLcne3uIprE?si=S8fnjLcoLBQou9Fb

Between this and that high end wire label printer you have, I'd let you be my neighbor.

 

[Apparition]

Now there's an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't exist (unless you're working on airframes, where it's required). I have a very old version of that (it's mil-surp). I used it on one job where it was useful. Very small, easily-broken ties. That cut down re-work considerably.

they really aren’t that expensive. They seem to fall of trucks a lot and sell on ebay for a 10th of the price.

I’ve never seen panel shops use side cutters.

 

[lBasket]

Yeah, crawling into an Indy car cockpit with only enough room for one arm above your head to tie the harness around the foot pedal assembly isn't cramped at all...

I'll die clutching my trusty side-cutters.

You know it's your lucky day when the tool you like because it's cheap coincides with this guy's tool of choice.

 

[chili_pepper]

They seem to fall of trucks a lot

Seems this same thing used to happen frequently to stereo speakers where I grew up...

 

[sab]

I’ve never seen panel shops use side cutters.

Side cutters or flush cutters? They're two different types of diagonal cutters. Flush-cutters are designed to, as the name implies, "cut flush." Using side cutters will always leave a sharp tail to cut your flesh. Flush cutters won't. Adam Savage has a good video showing the difference between the two (I didn't watch the entire video, but in introduction, when he says "nippers," he's referring to side cutters):


View: https://youtu.be/Ub0efbg1caw?t=129

Edited to correct the link.