ECN Forum Forums Safety Discussion and News Occupational Safety Discussion Use the Right Tools!.

The Admin offices over the other side of the road are having a bit of a makeover at this point in time.
And I have looked out the Control Centre windows, to see all sorts of tools used for things that they were never designed for!.
The builders are the cheapest in the district and believe me I have never seen a 14" crescent used as a hammer before!.

yanno, i've a tool belt that's gotten so heavy i had to get suspenders for it, and a van so full i had to get extra springs

all due to the tools i carry

many times i fall short of having every tool for every job readily available

so i make due...

fwiw, those who physically WORK with toolage usually understand this....

Most of the boxes where I need to knock-out the conduit entries are metal. We do have some surface mount ABS boxes which have K/O's for use with conduit, but I rarely use them.

The urea-based back boxes which are most prone to splitting here don;t generally have conduit K/Os, but they do have "break out" tabs so that surface run cables can enter.

A lot of people seem to have trouble snapping these out without splitting anything, but the trick is to just use a junior hacksaw to cut the thin sides before using the pliers.