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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Plyerman on March 18, 2017, 05:37:27 PM

Title: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Plyerman on March 18, 2017, 05:37:27 PM: For cutting and working on "BX" armored conduit, straight out of Wile E. Coyote's workshop. Electricians I know just use a hacksaw. Must be they never heard of this Goldbergian contraption. Patent No. 1,670,250 from 1928.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Plyerman on March 18, 2017, 05:38:48 PM: Datamp patent info: http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=1670250&typeCode=0
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Plyerman on March 18, 2017, 05:41:30 PM: Up here in my neck of the woods they call the stuff flexible conduit, or just plain BX

(http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/6/0/6/9/ar136432120996061.jpg)
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: lptools on March 18, 2017, 06:08:25 PM: Hello, plyerman. Very cool looking tool!!! The electricians in our shop use a hacksaw for the most part. Some of the guys use a hand held rotary cutter. Thanks for sharing, Lou
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: amecks on March 18, 2017, 07:18:23 PM: What a pair of pliers! But it sorta looks like a blood blister waiting to happen.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: rustyfordgarage on March 18, 2017, 07:37:44 PM: I hate armored wire, I'll take three. I have a hand vice somewhere for cutting the stuff straight with a hacksaw.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Yadda on March 18, 2017, 08:58:54 PM: One of my favorite contraptions. I keep looking for one.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: skipskip on March 18, 2017, 11:13:45 PM: Quote from: Yadda on March 18, 2017, 08:58:54 PM
One of my favorite contraptions. I keep looking for one.

message me, I would sell mine

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Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Plyerman on March 19, 2017, 10:31:14 AM: Anybody watch the videos that this Tubalcain guy puts up on youtube? They are pretty entertaining really. Anyhow, here is one where he does a demonstration of the Triangle tool in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-CS7QXhL8&list=PL6HIFled82YVenSVXI6v7gfU1psLIJjkF
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Yadda on March 19, 2017, 07:37:31 PM: Cool video!
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Bill Houghton on March 20, 2017, 09:15:13 PM: I loaned my son two of the hand-crank type BX cutters and asked him to return one when he'd tried them out...hmmm...I need to ask him again, since I haven't seen either one since.

I've used a hacksaw, too, but it can be frustrating. I have learned that it's worth getting out the saw with the 32-tpi blade on it.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: rustyfordgarage on March 20, 2017, 09:19:22 PM: Tubalcain , Keith Rucker(vintagemachinery) and Tom Lipton(oxtoolco) to name a few, they all have different old tools from time to time.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: pritch on March 20, 2017, 09:55:00 PM: Funny, around here they call that conduit MC.
Title: Re: Triangle Armored Cable Tool
Post by: Plyerman on March 20, 2017, 10:23:26 PM: Quote from: rustyfordgarage on March 20, 2017, 09:19:22 PM
Tubalcain , Keith Rucker(vintagemachinery) and Tom Lipton(oxtoolco) to name a few, they all have different old tools from time to time.

The way a lot of these youtube guys drone on and on in a monotone voice, makes me want to shoot myself. Or shoot them. I turn the sound off after about 30 seconds. But I like that Tubalcain guy. Just the way he presents himself you can tell he's a very down to earth sort of guy.