TLE (Electrical tools and materials)

• Screw Drivers - tools are made of steel hardened and tempered at the tip used to loosen or tighten.
• Flat screw driver - blade tip is wedge shaped and resembles a negative (-) sign. Drive screw with a single slot heads.
• Philips screw driver - Has a cross tip resembling a positive sign.
• Stubby screw driver - it comes in either standard or philip screw driver with short shank or blade and a shorted handle used to turn scews in tight space where standard screw driver cannot be used.
• Allen screw/wrench - this could be in the shape of a screw with hexagonal slot head.
• Hammers - tools used in driving or pounding and pulling nails.
• Types of hammer:

  • Claw hammer
  • Mallet
  • Ballpeen hammer
• Pliers - made from metal with insulators in the handle and are used for cutting, twisting, bending, holding and gripping wires.
• Combination pliers (lineman's pliers) - This is used for gripping, holding, and cutting electrical wires and cables and even mall nails. They are usually used by Inemen in doing heavy tasks.
• Side cutting pliers - This type of pliers is used for cutting fine, medium and big wires and cables.
• Long nose pliers - This is used for cutting and holding fine wires. This can reach tight space or small opening where Other pliers cannot reach and also used in making terminal loops of copper wires.
• Wire stripper - A tool used for removing insulation of medium sized wires ranging from gauge #10 to gauge #16.
• Electrician's knife - This is used by linemen to remove insulation of wire and cables in low and high voltage transmission lines.
• Portable electric drill - A small drilling machine with a chuck capacity of 1/4 to 3/8. It is used in making holes on metal sheets and concrete walls.
• Hacksaw - This tool is used to cut metal conduit and armored cable.
• Convenience outlet - a device that acts as a convenient source of electrical energy for current communing appliances. It is where the male plug of an appliance is inserted and armally fastened on the wall or connected in an extension cord. It maybe single, duples, triplex or multiplex and could be surface type or flush type.
• Male plug - a device inserted to a convenience outlet to conduct electric current.
• Lamp holders - devices that hold and protect the lamp and are also called as-Lamp Sockets/Receptacles. These come in many designs and sizes They are classified as flush hanging (weather proof/chain) and surface types.
• Switch - a device that connects and disconnects the flow of electric current in a circuit. There are many shapes, designs, and types and they are classified as hanging. flush, and surface types.
• Fuse - a circuit protective device that automatically blows and cut the current when and over load or short circuit happens.
• Circuit breaker - a protective device used to automatically blows and cuts the current when trouble in the circuit such as short circuit or overload occurs.
• Junction box - an octagonal shaped electrical material where the connections or joints of wires are being done. It is also where the flush type lamp holder is attached.
• Utility box - a rectangular shaped metallic or plastic (PVC) material in which flush type convenience outlet and switch are attached.
• Flat cord - is a duplex stranded wire used for temporary wiring installation and commonly used in extension cord assembly.
• Stranded wires

  • which is made of multiple strands joined together to make a single wire

  Solid wires

  • is made of a single strand of copper or aluminum wire
• Conduits / pipes - electrical materials used as the passage of wires for protection and insulation. These could be rigid metallic, flexible metallic conduit (FMC), rigid nonmetallic (PVC), and flexible non-metallis or corrugated plastic conduit (CPC)
• Clamp - used to hold and anchor electrical conduits in its proper position.
• Connectors - used to attach metallic or non-metallic conduit to the junction or utility box.