Is there a tool for cutting normal live T&E?

[Mickey Goldmill]

Recently I had a job where I had to cut a 6mm and a 2.5mm live cable and terminate into a JB. I had to strip the cable with an insulated stanly, and then separate the wires and terminate each one.

I was just wondering if there is a tool that would do this cutting job without having to separate the cables? Something like sharp ceramic snips or something of the sort that would not conduct the electricity and would allow to cut directly through a live cable?

TIA

 

[ayjay]

hello mickey
try to be a "big boy"
try to be a bit more" mature"
andy xxxxx

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

Huh? What the hell does that mean?

 

[ipf]

Try a wooden saw

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Huh? What the hell does that mean?

it means stop being a bell end and isolate the supply first....before making off any cable....lol

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

Very funny, but not... that funny. So I guess there is no tools that allow you to cut directly through live cables? If so, why have none been invented?

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

Why are you being so harsh and abrupt with me and calling me names? What's wrong with you?

The job i worked on is a 3 bedroom house, and the property below is a hairdressers (That is now out of business and has shutters on it) has incoming 6mm and 2.5mm cables that are live and needed to be deadened and terminated. The 2 flats below are going to be occopied in 3 weeks and the landlord of the the flats cannot get in touch with the owner of the below defunct barber shop where there supposed CU is.

You should THINK the obvious before spouting stupid comments and insults, which just shows your complete ignorance and stupidity.

 

[Sharpend]

Ask the pikies they seem to do it?

 

[Silly Sausage]

ipf was close!
If you can find a pair of non conductive snips, please let us know!

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

ipf was close!
If you can find a pair of non conductive snips, please let us know!

That is why I was thinking, why hasn't anyone created some kind of sharp bone or ceramic snips that would shear through the cable without any conductivity?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Why are you being so harsh and abrupt with me and calling me names? What's wrong with you?

The job i worked on is a 3 bedroom house, and the property below is a hairdressers (That is now out of business and has shutters on it) has incoming 6mm and 2.5mm cables that are live and needed to be deadened and terminated. The 2 flats below are going to be occopied in 3 weeks and the landlord of the the flats cannot get in touch with the owner of the below defunct barber shop where there supposed CU is.

You should THINK the obvious before spouting stupid comments and insults, which just shows your complete ignorance and stupidity.

sorry mick...its my job...

 

[Robson689]

It's bloody dangerous that's why no one has invented it.

 

[Silly Sausage]

It's a bit of a pointless question really, once you've chopped your cable, you'd still have to separate the cores anyway...

But imagine, non conductive ceramic cutters freely available to the public!!!
On discount at B&Q NOW.

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

sorry mick...its my job...

To be an ignorant, harsh and abrupt electrician? Wow, you must be popular.

 

[Mickey Goldmill]

It's a bit of a pointless question really, once you've chopped your cable, you'd still have to separate the cores anyway...

But imagine, non conductive ceramic cutters freely available to the public!!!
On discount at B&Q NOW.

No It isn't a pointless question.... because when you use your sharp ceramic cutters to cut the cable... you then create a market for the WAGO people to come in with terminators that have built in cutters for the different cable sizes that you just push onto the clean end of the cut cable and it serperates and terminates the cables into the WAGO black in one go.

I can't imagine that too hard to do