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[LoveRocket]

Not fiddly at all with the right tool, failing that a 2" round headed nail works just as well for sliding them over cable ends. (Its amazing what you have to do sometimes on site! )

Too slow!

Those plastic 'tube' type toothpicks also work well for small CSA wires, but are not too easy to find onsite!

 

[conny]

2" round nails aren't either!
Thats why I always carry a few in my box!

 

[GaryMo]

If you use good quality markers of the correct size then no tools are needed at all.
I always use Partex PA1 series which covers conductor sizes of 0.75mm2 to 4mm2.

 

[Gees]

You could use coloured heatshrink over the crimp ends if you need to, if there's a real risk that crimp size ID might get confused with conductor ID.

You can also get clear heatshrink for attaching labels with.

However no-one technically unaware should be anywhere near anything crimped as it should all enclosed and inaccessible without the use of a tool.

These are a good idea too but a bit fiddly to use.

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• Gees
• 28 Jun 2010
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They're not fiddly at all as long as you use the ferrule tool to get them on to the wires and don't **** around trying to use a screwdriver or fingernail!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh...........

 

[ban-all-sheds]

These are a good idea too but a bit fiddly to use.

What are R, S & T?

 

[GaryMo]

An example could be terminals for a 3 phase motor though I would find U, V, W to be more appropriate.

Nothing to do with R, S, T cable markers but coincidentally I'm sat directly in front of this!

 

[Gees]

These are a good idea too but a bit fiddly to use.

What are R, S & T?

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ RST UVWXYZ

 

[ColJack]

when you've put hundreds of these on a day for 6 months, you don't need no stinking tool to get them on..
it does help if you cut the wire on an angle rather than flat faced..

 

[GaryMo]

Exactly. They succeed in slowing you down and that's about it.

 

[disinfo]

Nice and easy to put on at this time of year but in the winter I found storing them in your gob for a while helps!

 

[ColJack]

or work in a nice warm panel shop rather on a freezing rooftop somewhere..

 

[disinfo]

or work in a nice warm panel shop rather on a freezing rooftop somewhere..

My workshop is NEVER warm.

I think if the walls ever thaw out, species previously thought to be extinct may begin reappearing.

 

[333rocky333]

What are R, S & T?

Think its to do with 3 phase rotation.

 

[ColJack]

they sometimes use R,S,T,U,V,W for the motors rather than U1, V1, W1, U2, V2, W2..