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That time a master tech told me to stop using my linesman scissors for everything...
He said I was mangling the connectors and showed me how just using the right cutter kept the copper round. Ever since I switched to a dedicated coax stripper the failure rate dropped way down. Anyone else ever get called out for using the wrong tool and feel stupid after?
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perry.evan18d ago
Oh come on, linesmans are the Swiss Army knife of the tool pouch, they work fine for everything if you've got the touch. If your connectors are getting mangled that's on your technique, not the tool. Plus now you've got to carry around a whole extra dedicated thing that does one job when you could've just gotten better at using what you already had.
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lisaf3817d ago
Three years in commercial, I watched a guy strip 100 feet of MC with his linesmans without a single nick. But I've also fixed plenty of his splices where the connector was crushed or loose because he was using the same tool to crimp and cut and twist. The jaw gap on linesmans just isn't consistent enough for a solid crimp every time, especially on bigger gauge stuff like 8 or 6. I keep my Kleins for twisting and pulling, but when I need a clean connection that won't fail a megger test, I grab the dedicated crimper every single time.
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holly_walker7617d ago
My old foreman swore by using his linesmans for everything and he'd been doing it 25 years, but I watched him fail three back-to-back hypot tests on 10 AWG because of nicked copper from those same linesmans.
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