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Download Solution PDFWhich pliers are most suitable for cutting hard wires?
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Download Solution PDF- Diagonal pliers (or wire cutters or diagonal cutting pliers or diagonal cutters or side cutting pliers) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything).
- It is defined by the cutting edges of the jaws intersects the joint rivet at an angle or "on a diagonal".
- Diagonal pliers are useful for cutting copper, brass, iron, aluminum and steel wire.
- Lower quality versions are generally not suitable for cutting tempered steel, such as piano wire, as the jaws are not hard enough.
- Attempting to cut such material will usually cause indentations to be made in the jaws, or a piece to break out of one or both jaws, thus ruining the tool.
- However higher quality side cutters can cut hardened steel, such as 2 mm piano wire.
- Needle-nose pliers (also known as pointy-nose pliers, long-nose pliers, pinch-nose pliers or snipe-nose pliers) are both cutting and holding pliers used by artisans, jewelry designers, electricians, network engineers and other tradesmen to bend, re-position and snip wire.
- Needle-nose wire cutters are often used by electricians because the sharply tapered jaws make it easy to bend and insert the wire into a switch-gear in electrical panels, where there is often not enough space to use any other type of pliers or cutters.
- Locking pliers, mole grips (mole wrench) or vise-grips are pliers that can be locked into position, using an over-center action.
- One side of the handle includes a bolt that is used to adjust the spacing of the jaws, the other side of the handle (especially in larger models) often includes a lever to push the two sides of the handles apart to unlock the pliers.
- A wire stripper is a portable handheld tool used by workers, especially electricians, for removing the protective coating of an electric wire to replace or repair the wire.
- It is also capable of stripping the end portions of an electric wire to connect them to other wires or terminals.
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