stripping cables , SWA etc

[eckersecker]

I work at a factory and they have just banned the use of all knives on site. I have side cutters, but can anyone recommend a tool for nicking ordinary flex to get outer sheath off as I used to use my knife. Also is there a tool that works for stripping the inner and outer sheaths when doing SWA?
I'm guessing I need at least 2 different tools.

 

[BlueToBits]

Went through security an Manchester airport last month. I had a 120mm x 14mm SDS drill in my bag. Brand new - still on the display card. It got pulled of course, but as I got through with a 9" circular saw blade last time I thought it shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, the drill was confiscated and I went through to the departure lounge and ordered some breakfast and helped myself to a plastic knife and a metal fork from the cutlery counter. So what is it about the security thing? why is a blunt (or at least non-sharp) drill bit, which has little chance than inflicting more injury than a curling tongue, more of a danger than a plastic knife - quite able to cut through meat, and full size metal fork on an airplane? Unless you happen to be the 'Blue Rajah', of course.

 

[Engineer54]

Although nothing to do with H&SE, airport security is going exactly the same way!! All this OTT security was started by the Yanks, and forced on to others. Now it has become yet another way of taking money off of ALL passengers in the way of extra charges, which of course is also Taxed!!!.

 

[eckersecker]

Thanks for comments. Yes they banned "ordinary" stanley knives years ago. We were allowed to use the pop in ones as mentioned above. They were a pain as the blade retracts all the time. But now no knives at all.

 

[ipf]

I work at a factory and they have just banned the use of all knives on site. I have side cutters, but can anyone recommend a tool for nicking ordinary flex to get outer sheath off as I used to use my knife. Also is there a tool that works for stripping the inner and outer sheaths when doing SWA?
I'm guessing I need at least 2 different tools.

We all know who the TOOLS are!!

 

[Superspark23]

my college book shows the technique of stripping T&E with a knife! never done that in my life but its there.

 

[Engineer54]

Come on, tell me , ....so what's the reason they are using behind this daft knife ban then??

 

[trev]

I'm guessing it's in case someone flips out and starts stabbing people but I just took a little peek in my toybox and there's any amount of pointy things in there, even my 3.5mm tap could be driven into someones eye if they annoyed me enough

 

[Guest112]

my firm banned stanley knives of all types we use knipex knives now, but in my opinion a blunt knife is more dangerous than a stanley blade because with a stanley you dont have to put so much pressure when you cut...

 

[ruston]

Have to keep the pad saw hidden then.:devil:

 

[Knobhead]

I now know why I kept my axe!

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[Knobhead]

I’ve only ever cut a finger once with a knife at work once. One I was passed by another electrician while I was stuck in the back of a panel. He passed me his own, it was blunt!

Electricians and sharp knives go together, they’re part of the skills you learn. We’ll end up like butchers having to wear chain mail gloves next! (The bloody HSE would insist they’re earthed).

If anyone tried to take my 20 year old Tysak screw retractable knife off me they’ll have boot prints all over their back.

The auto retract knives sound good in theory but you work in the dirty environments I’ve been in they’ll soon gum up and stick. You slip it in your pocket thinking the blades retracted only to find it hasn’t the next time you need it.

A tradesman knows the tools he needs and should know how to use them.

I wonder what they’d make of my hack knife used for paper leads.

 

[Des 56]

Its usually a case of some up his jacksy office working type who has not the slightest skill for using hand tools,he justifies his importance by coming up with ill informed nonsense

This is not the first because I recall a thread a while back with some other muppet upsetting the local spark

A good clear out of these numpties in this recession would make it worthwhile

 

[SPARTYKUS]

As said, a sharp knife is .... essential as far as I'm concerned. I have cut my finger with it but a bit of tape and a couple of days and you'd never know. Thats partly because it was (and always is kept) almost surgically sharp. The cut wasso clean it just pressed back together.

About twenty years ago I did a stint as a carpet fitter. The bloke training me's hands' were a tapestry of scars, in fact I nearly passed out once when I saw the cut he had on his thumb - he just shrugged and gaffer taped it up, it healed up like all the others, he was more worried about getting blood on the skirting.

It is crazy. The only reason I am talking like this is because I work for myself and am a bit older. They'll never take my knife.

What a load of cobblers.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Its usually a case of some up his jacksy office working type who has not the slightest skill for using hand tools,he justifies his importance by coming up with ill informed nonsense

This is not the first because I recall a thread a while back with some other muppet upsetting the local spark

A good clear out of these numpties in this recession would make it worthwhile

YES! too right

 

[ipf]

I say ban their office staplers and drawing pins.