Electrician’s Scissors 5-3/8" with Wire Stripper (ES-1964)

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Electrician's scissors get used a hundred times a day, and a pair that's going to last has to be made of better steel than office scissors. The Jonard Tools ES-1964 are heavy-duty electrician's scissors in chrome vanadium steel, reinforced with a special hardening process for durability and cutting performance, and nickel plated so they don't rust in a wet pouch. A serrated edge on one blade holds wire in place for a cleaner cut, and the scissor-run design goes through Kevlar® and wire alike, so the same scissors trim the aramid in a fiber cable and the pairs in a copper one. Notches in the blades strip 18 to 20 AWG and 22 to 24 AWG wire, and a scraper and a file sit on the back of the blade for cleaning a conductor or dressing an edge. At 5-3/8 in and under a quarter pound, it's the standard-handle scissor in the ES-1964 family; the ES-1964ERG is the same blade on an ergonomic loop handle.

Features

• Serrated blade. One blade's serrated edge holds wire in place for cleaner cuts.
• Scissor-run design. Cuts Kevlar® and wire.
• Skinning notches. Strip 18 to 20 AWG and 22 to 24 AWG wire with ease.
• Scraper and file. On the back of the blade, for cleaning a conductor and dressing an edge.
• Chrome vanadium steel, specially hardened. Heavy-duty durability and cutting performance.
• Nickel plated. Corrosion resistance for a tool that lives in a pouch.

Where It Fits

It suits telecom and structured cabling technicians trimming pairs, jackets, and pull string at the block and the patch panel, fiber techs cutting the aramid yarn in a cable that the ST-500 stripper has opened, electricians and controls techs skinning 18 to 24 AWG conductors at a terminal strip, alarm and intercom installers who make most of their cuts in station wire, anyone who has worn out a pair of hardware-store scissors on Kevlar, a shop that keeps a pair at every bench, and a pouch that already has the punch-down tool and the JIC-7858 diagonal cutter. For a more comfortable handle over a long day, the ES-1964ERG; for Kevlar in volume, the JIC-190 flush-cut Kevlar cutters.

Good to Know

Use the serrated blade against the wire so the serrations hold it; a cut that slides is one made with the smooth side leading. Pick the skinning notch by the conductor, 18 to 20 AWG in the larger and 22 to 24 AWG in the smaller, close the blades on the insulation, and pull the wire straight out; a wire pulled through the smaller notch is nicked, and a nicked conductor is where it breaks later. Kevlar dulls steel faster than copper does, so expect to touch up the plain blade on a stone now and then, and leave the serrated blade alone, since sharpening removes the serrations. These are scissors, not cutters; a solid conductor heavier than 18 AWG, a screw, or hardened material belongs in the JIC-683 lineman's pliers. The scraper on the back of the blade cleans oxidation off a conductor before a crimp and the file dresses a burr; neither is a substitute for the right tool on a bigger job. The handles are bare steel, so the scissors conduct from blade to hand, and the circuit is dead before they go in the box. Nickel plating keeps rust off the outside, but the pivot still wants a drop of oil now and then and the blades a wipe after a wet job.

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