Tools

10 essential electrical tools to start your career

KNIPEX marks National Apprentice Week with competitions, events and exclusive discount packages This National Apprenticeship Week (6th to 12th February 2023) pliers’ specialist KNIPEX has put together exclusive discount packages, competitions and events for electrical apprentices. Consulting closely with well-known electrician and social media content creator Nick Bundy (www.youtube.com/@NBundyElectrical), and in collaboration with Northern Ireland tool retailer Tool Monster, 10 essential KNIPEX tools have been hand-selected to help kickstart the careers of…

Learner special: Build up your professional toolkit

As a learner or new starter in the industry, filling your toolbox with the best tools to get the job done is vital. But how do you know which tools to start a professional toolkit with? To help, here are the key tools we believe will serve as the ‘go to’s’ in a professional toolkit for any electrician. Pliers, nippers and cutters First up, Combination Pliers, Pliers for Electrical Installation,…

Identifying electrician’s hand tools

When you start your apprenticeship, it is important that you get to know how to recognise basic electrician’s hand tools and understand what they are used for. This video from Gary Hayers at Tresham College aims to help! These are the basic 10 tools all learners use in Gary’s s workshop lessons at Tresham College. Quickly after starting college you will be required to name and use all these basis tools…

What tools should every electrical apprentice have?

This video, from the IET, takes a look at the typical tools that all learners will need throughout their electrical apprenticeship. View all of the IET’s Student’s guide videos by clicking here.