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I can definitely agree on that bit!
Im thinking that its one of the "life hacks" that you have always managed to never need.......but I guess people have time on their hands now to make such things, I think I'd buy one unless I cant wait for long enough for the postie to deliver it........
....ahh sod it, I'll just stick a hook into the twisty end of cordless drill.
now thats the easy option.
....ahh sod it, I'll just stick a hook into the twisty end of cordless drill.
now thats the easy option.
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It does make me laugh when people over complicate a solution to a problemIm thinking that its one of the "life hacks" that you have always managed to never need.......but I guess people have time on their hands now to make such things, I think I'd buy one unless I cant wait for long enough for the postie to deliver it........
....ahh sod it, I'll just stick a hook into the twisty end of cordless drill.
now thats the easy option.
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Im thinking that its one of the "life hacks" that you have always managed to never need.......but I guess people have time on their hands now to make such things, I think I'd buy one unless I cant wait for long enough for the postie to deliver it........
....ahh sod it, I'll just stick a hook into the twisty end of cordless drill.
now thats the easy option.
Never thought of that. You’ve just saved me wasting time in the playpen
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114145988682
8/9” lockwire pliers (6" if your wire is thin enough)
Not worth the hassle making.
8/9” lockwire pliers (6" if your wire is thin enough)
Not worth the hassle making.
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Prefer using these. It's quicker.
Can buy the above off the shelf. Gave up with them as a pita
Also these
Bit pricey but if I was steel fixing day in day out...
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Aye. Not sure why the pic I posted above says 66 quid. Range between 12 and 40
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im a end cut pliers man myself
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Yeah good point, lockwire pliers have cutters too though.
I'd be pigtailing and folding it over safe but that's just force of habit.
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The proper tool is only about a tenner https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rebar-Ho...514257?hash=item56cc952691:g:wSoAAOSwKKZdnGAs
Nothing quicker and easier on reo than buying the looped tying wire pre made and one of those tools. No need for snips.
Bob
Nothing quicker and easier on reo than buying the looped tying wire pre made and one of those tools. No need for snips.
Bob
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I cant see the pic but id dont know why you would bother when channel lock do really good ones for rebar and you can get a set of king dick engineers wire plires for less than a tenner. Also 90 percent of the time a pair of combination pliers will do the job just as well albeit a bit slower.
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The second I see "life hack" on anything, especially youtube, I know to give it a miss. Just what IS a "life hack" anyway? I personally think it is a phrase used by the uneducated to describe their astonishment at the marvels of simple mechanics that because of their lack of education, constantly surprise them.
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Cordless would be ok if wire tying pre fabbed cages on a bench ,when on site hobbling about on dozens of sheets of the stuff perched on plastic pedestals the loops and hand tool are far better, just my opinion. Sometimes we are better off travelling light and keeping things simple
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His "hack" would be far more use with a spring return but is wasteful of wire and I noticed that what he is tying had been twisted to start with! I rarely used my wire locking tool until starting the new job in February, now it gets used a couple of times a week, at least it did for the 6 weeks until I was furloughed. I also have the ties and twisting tool @8ob posted, that may have been found in a clearout at Petter's in the early 80's and that is useful for twisting up Mig wire for Tig welding.
I also have the ties and twisting tool @8ob posted, that may have been found in a clearout at Petter's in the early 80's and that is useful for twisting up Mig wire for Tig welding. 