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
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
