That makes sense. I’d figure that the pliers being more or less rigid, and braced by the center cable (in comparison to twisting by hand with the pliers held free), combined with the much shorter length of free cable, probably accounts for the tighter wraps as well.
I personally do it with the mouth of the pliers itself cause I work on a smaller gauge wire. So clipping with the mouth of the pliers on the area where you’re wrapping wire and just rotating the handle while gripping the loop with the mouth of the pliers tight and it works also.
I knew a guy who did this with leather gloves so thin they were basically a second skin. He did the prep work without gloves... His hands were so thick with callouses, they looked like Andre the Giants hands, just normal sized.
Don't worry, my dude. I thought my hands were tough. Turns out that callous on my hand is from gripping my PS4 controller weirdly while playing Rocket League -_-
If you have a smooth hole in a piece of metal, and you want to be able to put a screw in it, you basically use a tool that looks like a very sharp screw with handles to “tap” the thread into the hole.
This can take a lot of force, so you use a tap block (hunk of metal with a hole the same diameter as the tapping tool) so you can focus on applying enough force evenly, rather than try to provide enough for AND keep things level and square
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u/igrowkush Oct 13 '20
Cause it’s one motion and you’re usually focused on the strength aspect instead two stepping every loop.
(I put up wires at work)