#electrical
20 words tagged “electrical”
A lineman's climbing hooks — the gaffs strapped to his boots.
A woven-mesh cable grip that tightens its hold the harder you pull.
A split-bolt connector used to splice heavy electrical conductors.
Armoured flexible electrical cable — wires inside a spiral metal jacket.
Lineman's pliers, named after the brand that owns the trade.
The plastic-jacketed house wiring inside basically every American home built since the 60s.
Metal straps that hold an old-work electrical box into drywall.
Flexible metal conduit — the bendy aluminium tube you snake through finished walls.
Flexible spring-steel ribbon used to snake wires through walls and conduit.
The Greenlee 555 — the industry-standard powered conduit bender.
The National Electrical Code — the rulebook electricians live and die by.
Lineman — utility or transmission pole climber.
Diagonal cutting pliers — the snub-nosed cutters in every electrician's pouch.
Channellock tongue-and-groove pliers — the blue-handled grippers.
A short jumper wire used to connect a device to a circuit without breaking the run.
A hand bender for shaping rigid electrical conduit by leverage.
The wiring box bolted to an electric motor where the supply cable lands.
A jaw-style clamp for pulling wire and cable under heavy tension.
A truck-mounted bucket lift for working at height.
A foam plug blown through conduit to drag a pull string behind it.