The Blade Runner is a great electrician tool for preparing SWA armoured cable. We've got it back out of the toolbox to try some of these Hensel Electric GSC cable glands. FYI you can get the armoured cable with the correct core colours - sometimes😉

@TheChipmunk2008

11 ай бұрын

In your opinion does it work any better than the CK armour slice? (which doesn't work on smaller cables used for lighting etc). The blade looked finer...

I've been using mine for 15 years, still going strong, love it.❤

@PHealey1981

11 ай бұрын

Me too!

Did anyone else notice the blue sleeving temporarily go on the black core but then swapped for the final display. ..someone's still thinking the years 2006.

@Cke33

11 ай бұрын

I saw that 😅

Tried one years ago not impressed. Like most of these things the good old junior hacksaw ( with a slightly dull blade) gives the best results. The glands look good though if somewhat pricy

"I'll take things we don't have across the pond for 600 Alex"

@falcon5751

11 ай бұрын

The english do electrics in very weird and stupid ways in my Humble opinion. It truly is the middle ground between europe and america.

@evankennette1146

10 ай бұрын

Basically Teck but we wind the stupid jacket around, the only thing I don't love about grounding to the fitting is that lock rings under 1" seem to come loose all the time from vibration. But multi conductor Teck has a ground

I use the CK armour slice, great thing. Took time to learn how much to cut so I could just shake the armour strands off.

I’ve been using a plumbers pipe cutter for years, does the same job.

I'm more impressed by those glands 😍

Junior hacksaw anyday

Never seen armoured cable like that.

@khasar1824

11 ай бұрын

? They are not that uncommon

Me encanta la cantidad de herramientas que tiene este técnico y la limpieza de sus movimientos 😎👌🏻

Worth it for sure with all the EV Chargers supplied by SWA cable now

@efixx

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting

Nice

I still use junior hacksaw I've got one off these and don't think it's very good just look at the uneven cut it makes I've seen a video where someone is cutting a proper hacksaw blade into pieces of the same size instead of buying new blades he said they work much better I've seen young lads on site using croppers to score the swa on small cables I'm not sure how I feel about that it does work quite well I've tried it😂🤦🏼🤫

Great tool

I personally knew the man who invented that tool. His name is Mick Maguire.

I was a really young kid in eastern Germany (GDR/DDR) but I know the term "Gasbeton" until today almost 35 years later. In wester Germany they named the same thing "Ytong". I thought it was the name of the stone in general until I learned that this is a brand name. As I got into electrics I learned to know the "Hensel-Dose". Every electrician and even the no sparkys know whats meant. But I don't get over you shieldet cable

Nice one looks the business,😊

Think I will stick with my junior hacksaw. The glands look good quality

Приятно наблюдать за работой мастера

1989 da bu rekorlardan çok kullandım.😊

Nice music 🎶🎵

@efixx

11 ай бұрын

👍🏻

Súper 😊👍🏻💪👌

@efixx

11 ай бұрын

👍🏻

I like my trusty amour slice

@TitchgamerRG

11 ай бұрын

same!

I use a good pipe cutter. It only gets so far but it leaves enough indentation in each wire that I can go around with a hacksaw and they all end up tidy. This looks an interesting tool because it's putting the hacksaw blade onto the pipe cutter. Might get one.

Вот настоящий электрический шланг.

How has noone developed a stripping tool that can fully strip through the wire armour and simultaneously strip just the outer jacket at the appropriate distance from the end of the now exposed conductors to leave that small amount of exposed wire armour at the same time?

@an2thea514

11 ай бұрын

they exist, you get them at the industry.

I believe they went bump a few years back though. #kewteknik

You put a blue sleeve on the black in one shot and another shot shows it with an earth sleeve. Which is correct?

@littletyke76

11 ай бұрын

You are supposed to de-neutralize the black aka make it earth

You’ve done that before!

As an EE, I still don't get why you don't use the shield as a ground.

@techheck3358

10 ай бұрын

The shield is grounded, but there is a separate ground wire inside too (copper)

@user2C47

10 ай бұрын

@@techheck3358 But why does it need to be separate?

@techheck3358

10 ай бұрын

@@user2C47 the armour is regulated by its strength, hence it is made of steel. the earth conductor is regulated by how well it can conduct. hence it is made of copper

I have one they're not great much slower than a decent pipe cutter. Don't use a Junior anymore as I'm not a Luddite.

@TheChipmunk2008

11 ай бұрын

Problem i've found on smaller SWA with a pipe cutter is it can deform the strands into the bedding, maybe i need to be less bull at a gate lol

@stevoc9930

11 ай бұрын

@@TheChipmunk2008 Yeah on smaller SWA it only needs a few turns. Just enough to weaken the strands. But once I got the hang of it. It's far superior to a junior, quicker and neater. While I still use a Hacksaw for 50mm+ I'd never use a hacksaw over a pipe cutter again.

I want buy this

How long does the hack saw blade in that tool last? I had another similar tool with a hardened steel blade and it was good for about 5-6 dismantles, then was ready for the metal bin. Gone back to my junior and still going strong with old school.

@littletyke76

11 ай бұрын

Just bought a CK one the other day and it is fucked after glanding off like 20 cables lol

@williamcuthbertson4903

8 ай бұрын

I've got the CK one, still on the same blade after 40 glands.

nice music

☺️

Been using a plumbers pipe cutter to strip armoured cable for many years ... nothing new to see here really.

what brand of cable?

What applications do you use armoured cable for in the UK? Waaaay different than the US version lol

@littletyke76

11 ай бұрын

Any cable that isn't run in trunking for commercial/industrial. Anything outside in residential

@TheChipmunk2008

11 ай бұрын

Your armoured cable (BX) is for indoor use only, ours is mostly used outdoors or for commercial/industrial, as littletyke76 says. We don't have anything like your armoured, although we have spiral metallic conduit that looks similar

What's the name of the tool to cut the armoured cable

@Oasis793

9 ай бұрын

Ergo

Serious question: when do you use armored cables?

@techheck3358

10 ай бұрын

Outdoors. So that it doesn’t get accidentally cut

@p.hardy9372

10 ай бұрын

@@techheck3358 okay thanks.But if you rok with an excavator, you probably still cut it, don't you? In Switzerland we use pipes in the ground at a depth of 80cm signaling it with red and white tape in the depth of 60cm.

@techheck3358

10 ай бұрын

@@p.hardy9372 an excavator may still cut it yes. its put into the trench, then backfilled with dirt, then a plastic sheet is put down on top, then more dirt. so before the excavator gets to the cable, they will pull up the sheet

@p.hardy9372

10 ай бұрын

@@techheck3358 ah okay. Similar procedure than here. But you don't use pipes as an additional protection?

@techheck3358

10 ай бұрын

@@p.hardy9372 not required, swa is one of the only types that are certified for "direct burial" without any other protection.

I'm wondering why you sleeve the wires instead of just using a cable with the correct colour coding? Here it's illegal to sleeve, paint or wrap wires, all wires must have the correct colour over the whole length of the cabling (brown/black/grey for line, blue for neutral, green/yellow for PE).

@drunkkmachine4511

11 ай бұрын

does your country have both single phase and three phase installations, or is it only three phase service?

@kpanic23

11 ай бұрын

@@drunkkmachine4511 99% are three phase 230/400V. There's just the odd rural ancient single phase service here and there, very likely TNC. But most of them have been converted to three phase by now.

What do I think? I think I have no clue what the hell I am watching haha

Has anyone got a link to this tool so i can check it out ??

@thelred-ph3lq

11 ай бұрын

As I don't know if the link will be allowed through, I'm only putting the information here. I think this is the one in the video SWA Blade Runner Cable Stripper for 3 and 4 Core SWA Cables up to 25mm² Model No. WSBR28 Please forgive the double post.

@nateryan7041

11 ай бұрын

@@thelred-ph3lq thanks very much Ill check it out 👍👍

Im across the pond. What's that cable used for? Over here we have service entrance cable like that but typically a tad thicker and not nearly as complicated to terminate. Add white powder to yours and it'll be MI cable.

@Sparkair1

11 ай бұрын

It's steel wire armoured cable. It's used where the risk of mechanical damage is high, such as industrial environments or when the cable is being buried underground.

@fanplant

11 ай бұрын

@@Sparkair1 thanks! We bury UF cable that isn't armored, looks like our NM (Romex) but our electricity isn't that spicy.

@littletyke76

11 ай бұрын

@@fanplant What if say a spade goes through it?

@fanplant

11 ай бұрын

@@littletyke76 code says it has to be 18" deep (46cm). Or something like that, lol. That goes for conduit as well. Oh and protected coming out of the ground.

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I don't think at it at all since we don't tha crap cable here

If they care enough they’ll find where he lives and go full neck beard.

Name tools

Personally, I thought it was rubbish as it broke within a few weeks of using

@efixx

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback 👍🏻

Junior hacksaw faster