CK Armour Slice

[Tiny Spark]

Well as promised here is a little review of the CK armour slice.
So it arrived yesterday and so I took it into work today and made a bee line straight for the cable stores to test her out.
I dug out the smallest cable I could find which was a 2.5mm 3 core, Clamped the armour slice on, give it 10 turns and removed it. I then pulled off the outer sheath and broke off all the strands with ease.




(Sorry about the poor photo quality!)

As you can see it allowed me to break them all off perfectly in line and square to the cable, All this in under 1 minute.

But how would it cope with the bigger cables?

Well I then grabbed the biggest cable I could find (which also happened to be in a awkward place) which was a 4 core 25mm, Again I clamped on the armour slice which still had room to fit a slightly bigger cable in and this time gave it 20 turns.
Again pulled the outter sheath off and broke all the strands off.





As you can see I didnt have much room to move without dragging the drum out and it again scored them all perfectly square to the cable.


So my conclussions:

Its flaming awesome! It will definatly be retaining a space in my box next to the hacksaws and stanley knife!
Everything was effortless from the attatchment to the scoreing and even the strand breaking.
So if you are making off alot of SWA's then I think it will pay its £30 price tag pretty quickly and with much less straining, swearing and cut fingers than using the old hack saw!


Hope you all find this informative/helpful and if you have any q's please ask

 

[telectrix]

+1 for the tool. got mine from elex. used a few times. consistently good. no more odd missed strands of steel to snip as often happens when using hacksaw.

 

[Robotstar5]

Looks like I will be replacing the bladerunner

 

[gavin.sibley]

Must be using mine wrong then..... Did the first armoured perfectly but every time I do it since it just destroys the end of the cable, looks as if the blade was destroyed on the first cable!

 

[shanky887614]

Must be using mine wrong then..... Did the first armoured perfectly but every time I do it since it just destroys the end of the cable, looks as if the blade was destroyed on the first cable!

how does it destroy the end of the cable?

any chance of a picture, im sure many of us are curious to whats happening

 

[telectrix]

over tightening and/or turning the wrong way.

 

[Tiny Spark]

I would be intrigued also, should be no way to damage the blade as i found it to be effortless.

As tel said maybe you over tightened it?

 

[2na]

I found each blade lasts for 2 armoured cables, then you have to change it. Sent mine back for a refund.

 

[Rockingit]

So.....what's the actual difference between this and a plumbers rotary pipe cutter??!

 

[telectrix]

similar principal but the cutting bit is a section of hacksaw blade. if i'm right, the correct wat of turning is the opposite of normal hacksaw use. i.e. it cuts on the reverse stroke so it doesn't snag the armour, just scores it .

 

[Tiny Spark]

As above, Also the clamping mechanism is spring loaded so it keeps a constant preasure so no need to continually adjust like a pipe cutter.

 

[nickblake]

I found each blade lasts for 2 armoured cables, then you have to change it. Sent mine back for a refund.

Really ive done about 30 so far on one blade and today was in a pig of a place had to redo 2 glands on an old cable 100mm from the ground cables been there for 30 years cut them perfectly glands went on a treat would highly recommend them the only thing i can think of you tightened it up to much

 

[sjhall]

I'm sold..... Ordering one tmz

 

[shanky887614]

I'm sold..... Ordering one tmz

well chuffed, got mine for £30

 

[uksparks]

Think I'll be picking one up in Eddies tomorrow now I have seen this, thanks