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strangely enough, i limited myself to 2 cases of 12 bottles ( beer that is ) per week. if it was gone by wednesday, i suffered without till sunday. there's only so much the tax and VAT gestapo will allow for spillage/breakage/shoplifting.

edit:eek:nly ever had 1 shoplifting attempt. a rottweiler's teeth clamped on a scally's arse was a brilliant deterrent.
 
So, I decided to listen to the 'use a knife' advice and I gave it a whirl this last week during some install work.

I started off by putting a decent branded blade in my crappy Stanley clone and that work great, until I discovered it had escape from my tool bag somewhere due to me being a clutz and putting an open (non-adjustable) knife in the pocket which subsequently cut a hole in it. So I've had to buy a new one and I decided I'd give a decent Stanley a try first. Not a fan of pen knife style knives as I've had a few near misses with them in the past.

It's quicker (or it will be once I master splitting the cable at the end), much neater than peeling out the CPC and snipping off the sheath and there was much less tool swapping going on, so much so, it was really only knife and installation pliers in my pockets.

Thanks for the advice chaps :)
 
I try not to use a Stanley knife for stripping wire. Last time I did that, I only realised I'd cut myself when the customer asked me what the Red was, on his shop wall.

It's strange, people get really bitchy when you paint they're walls with claret :).
 
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Well, it's a stop gap solution for now. I needed a new one anyway. My longer term plan is one of the fixed blade electricians knives. I'm looking at several that have been suggested in this thread.
 
but only for the bedding. for the outer i use my CK armourslice, both for the armour and to score the outer sheath.
 
Excellent bit of kit Tel, especially for Armoured.
Best tools for making a decent job of string SWA :
Knife
Junior Hacksaw
Terry clip (this last one may cause a few questions for some of the Younger guys) Sorry not Terry clip, Should read Jubilee Clip
 
Received my knipex installation pliers from amazon last week cost ÂŁ40 but more than happy with them (went for the ones without the spring opening) only used them for a week but as mentioned in previous posts saves you carrying more tools in you're pocket, quality look decent as a lot of knipex tools are and I'm sure they will last me a long time if I'm careful :D
 

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