Electrician’s Scissors 5-5/16" with Free-Fall Hinge & Wire Stripper (ES-1964DS)

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Most of the work in a scissor cut is the first two-thirds of the squeeze, before the blades reach the wire. The Jonard Tools ES-1964DS Free Fall Electrician's Scissors take that part out: a free-fall hinge lets the blades swing open on their own and engages them only in the last third of the stroke, so each cut is a short squeeze instead of a full one, and over a day of cuts that's the difference in hand fatigue. The hinge is loose enough for fingertip operation, which is how a tech makes a quick trim without regripping. The scissors are heavy-duty chrome vanadium steel, reinforced with a special hardening process for durability and cutting performance, and nickel plated against corrosion, with an ergonomic handle. A serrated edge on one blade holds wire in place for a cleaner cut, 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. It's the free-fall scissor in the ES-1964 family; the ES-1964 is the standard-hinge version and the ES-1964ERG the ergonomic loop handle.

Features

• Free-fall hinge. Engages the blades at the last third of the stroke, reducing hand fatigue over a day of cuts.
• Fingertip operation. The hinge is loose enough to work the scissors with the fingertips.
• Serrated blade. One blade's serrated edge holds wire in place for cleaner cuts.
• 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, with an ergonomic handle.
• Nickel plated. Corrosion resistance for a tool that lives in a pouch.

Where It Fits

It suits telecom and structured cabling technicians who make hundreds of trims a day at the block and the patch panel and feel it in the hand by afternoon, electricians and controls techs skinning 18 to 24 AWG conductors at a terminal strip, alarm and intercom installers cutting station wire all day, techs who like to flick a scissor open and closed with the fingertips while holding the cable in the other hand, anyone who has tried a free-fall scissor once and won't go back, 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 standard hinge, the ES-1964; for the ergonomic loop handle, the ES-1964ERG; for Kevlar in volume, the JIC-190 flush-cut Kevlar cutters.

Good to Know

A free-fall hinge is loose by design, so the blades swing open when the scissors are held point-down and swing closed when they're held point-up; that's the feature, not a worn pivot, and tightening the hinge to stop it defeats the purpose. Hold them so the blades fall open, feed the wire into the last third of the blade, and squeeze; the cut happens where the serrations are. Use the serrated blade against the wire so the serrations hold it. 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. 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. Keep the scissors closed in the pouch, since a loose hinge means they open on their own, and keep the blades pointed away from the hand reaching for them. 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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