Use a multi-tool to strip, cut and crimp electrical wires. Stripping the plastic coating off of electrical wires is easy with a gauged wire stripper, but an electrical multi-tool stripper and crimper ...

I had a friend who was an electronics assembly tech for a big defense contractor. He was a production floor guy who had a chip on his shoulder for the engineers with their fancy book-learnin’ who ...

At some point in your electrical pursuits, you’ll need to make a connector. Maybe you’re designing something that will connect to another device, or maybe the spaghetti mess of wires coming out of ...

The quality of an electrical connection is the heartbeat of any system, whether residential or industrial, as the safety of ...

Autoblog aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Electrical work has a way of exposing weak tools very quickly. No ...

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. For ...

Generally, nonrotating wire contacts on screw-terminated connectors handle 12 through 30 awg solid or stranded wire. Similarly, the connectors handle a variety of current capacities, making them ...