Calibration Checkbox/CK Combicutters

[The Wholesaler]

www.calibrationcheckbox.com, what do you think of this any good? also the new CK Combicutters, 3-in-1 cuts, strips, and cuts pattress screws to size, any thoughts???

 

[Qedelec]

Check boxes are an excellent idea and can say £££'s but this one is not coprehesive enough for me.
The one I use incorporates a RCD and facilities to measure ELI and max fault current as well as AC and DC voltages.
This means that as I do a monthly check of my equipment, logging the results, I can send my calibration check box away for calibration check instead of all my kit. At £30 per item it would add up to more than the £50 I pay for my calibration box.

Don't know the other items you mention. Post a link

 

[The Wholesaler]

CK Don't have any info or pics yet, i've only seen them in professional electrician magazine,

 

[JohnD]

hmmmm, £50 for nine resistors and a plastic box. If I was cleverer I'd have thought of that.

 

[BJS_Spark]

'The Wholesaler' are you per chance also known as Ian Foster which would indicate a rather clever but also naughty bit of free advertising for your 'resistor's in a box' thingy widget

If so by the way surely it could retail a bit cheaper for what is a plastic box with banana plugs and 9 resistors, all be it with a colourful printed label???

 

[The Wholesaler]

No i'm not Ian Foster, just a plain and simple Electrical Wholesaler! gaining valuable product research from you guys!

 

[emither]

the new CK Combicutters, 3-in-1 cuts, strips, and cuts pattress screws to size, any thoughts???

Been using those CK combicutters for a while, they are very nice to use, stripping holes are great and don't damage the cables unlike the NWS equivalent. Get them in.

 

[Taylortwocities]

CombiCutters - very useful to have the stripping and bending all in one, and the box screw guillotine feature is useful too.

As a pair of cutters they are useless IMO. Mine went blunt after a couple of months use.

I believe that the 'simple' check boxes' dont really check all the parameters of your tester. There's issues like voltages and currents used in continuity and insulation testing. eg a resistor string will not check that your tester is using 500VDC...

There are calibration checkers on teh market that do this but they cost £££££££££

 

[Click-Sure]

I couldn't throw Draper 'Expert' and nws combi-cutters far enough when i bought my CK Combicutter 3.

Don't know that the Combicutter 3 MAX has to offer, but i'll bet its a bit like mach3 and fusion....

 

[lazygit]

Have you seen the date of the original posts?
This thread has been running for over 2 years

 

[Click-Sure]

Yeah, I know.

Its staying in on a Saturday afternoon watching Dave.

I kinda like it.

 

[RF Lighting]

I personally like NWS cutters and pliers, but agree about draper being poo.

Each to their own

 

[kwikfix328]

I personally like NWS cutters and pliers, but agree about draper being poo.

Each to their own

The Knipex brand also seem to come under the Draper umberella these days , and i think that Knipex are some of the best cutters that I've ever owned.
I have a pair of 8" side cutters that i use on stainless steel locking wire and split pins and they cut through them effortlessly and have done for at least a couple of years now.

When the sparky came round to replace my CU a couple of months ago i saw that he used cable cutters for almost everything, so as my local wholesalers happend to have a sale/demo day on a few days later i invested in a small pair of Knipex 95-11-165 and they are a great little tool.

I don't know whether they have diversified into other things , but at one stage Knipex only used to make cutters and pliers and in this respect were the monkeys at the top of the tree... I hope that Draper don't 'dumb them down' to consumer level..

 

[RF Lighting]

I used to have a pair of knipex cutters some years ago, and they were ok, but didn't seem to stay very sharp for too long.

I generally used cable shears (CK ones as it happens) for most first fix work, and some second fix work, although anything over a 10mm singles and I tend to reach for my ratchet cutters.

 

[GaryMo]

Of all the various make of sidecutters I've used over the years I wouldn't buy anything other than Bahco. Superb cutters.