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I had one some 40 odd years ago. When I got married 34 years ago I remember it coming with me into the house but I haven't seen it in at least 20 years. I'm not about to buy a replacement on the off-chance though!
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Raul wrote: 29 Sep 2018, 21:48
Paul-R wrote: 29 Sep 2018, 20:50 You need one of these tools. Note the price!

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/cable-sl ... s/1707308/


That would be perfect. I need a cheap chinese copy of that .


I have one of those (maybe also a broken one...) my dad bought them about 50 years ago.
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The annoying thing is I saw one for sale in a Vide-Grenier in Carpentras a few years ago. At the time I had no need for one so only gave it a cursory glance and when I had had second thoughts and went back it had gone.

Damn and double damn.
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I still have my pair. Best used with lube.
Girls used to giggle and call them nanny-stretchers (or something like that). :lol:
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Whenever I used to bring mine out (oo-err missus) there were comments about using them as an alternative to the umbrella treatment for a dose of the clap. Further details available on request...
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A long time back I used to work for a company making wiring looms. We had several of those tools (I believe they were called Hellermann tools), and the nickname that I heard was the Honeymoon Tool.
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One of These James?
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Yup!
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Golly gosh, and yipes!

I actually have one of those here, probably 50 years old...
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- "Patented - Made in England - Hellerman, Crawley, Sussex"

And probably from the 80s, these rather clever one-action cable strippers, able to take about 3mm² downwards...
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Look like tools of the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada!
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Yes, I had a set of those type of strippers as well. The joke was that one had to throw a length of wire into the air and then, one handedly, intercept the falling piece of wire with the strippers so that it fell on the ground perfectly stripped.

I wonder where those are? Probably sitting next to the grommet stretcher, no doubt.
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I went shopping today hoping to find those pliers quickly but apparently nobody sells them at least in my town. So I need to order them from some internert shop. I am going for this hellersman product:
https://www.canford.co.uk/Products/55-6 ... -TOOL-KIT
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Crikey, that's a big expense for a one-off job.
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Paul-R wrote: 01 Oct 2018, 12:38 Crikey, that's a big expense for a one-off job.


Yes it is. It always happens that when I try to DIY something I end up buying expensive tools. This tool seems pretty handy while doing electrical jobs on the car so I hope it is not just for one-off job.
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