AVO meter repairs.

[Spectric]

You have missed a task out, before the sleeves are put over the joints the job goes through inspection for sign off, people with bright lights and large magnifying lens.

 

[Sideways]

Hellerman Tyton are still very much alive. Tie Wraps and plenty more.
We'll be onto Raytheon sleeving and Amphenol multiway connectors yet. Milspec gear was always ridiculously expensive.

 

[HOJ]

Amphenol multiway connectors

I remember buying an Amphenol butterfly crimp tool for 25 pair cable connectors, cost a fortune at the time, when I packed it all in, it sold at auction for £1.00.

 

[allan2426]

What one of these was my father-in-laws

Helsian pliersAKA Virgin urgers. Used to expand hessian sleeve in conjunction with a lubricant, before heat shrink. Still have a pair. Use to fit heat shrink tube on cables

 

[GuitardoctorW7]

Were these the days before tyraps, I do recall using some of the early heatshrink sleeving made by Raychem, at this time it was all rubber sleeves and the nice smelling sleeve lube with those three pronged tools one should not put in there pockets !

Hellerman tool?

 

[Phil Simpkin]

I did not think that HEME was still around, I used to use the HEME PR30 current clamp in grey but now they are bright yellow and badged as Fluke.

It is on a smaller scale I am the MD now

 

[Phil Simpkin]

@Phil Simpkin holly cow, now that’s a blast from the past. Hi Phil, hope you’re keeping well, and welcome to the forum.

Thanks , not sure who you are behind the alias though

 

[deema]

Thanks , not sure who you are behind the alias though

I used to be the i.diot (still an i.diot) that was the MD of Lem Heme when David stepped up to Chairman.

 

[Suffolk Brian]

I'm glad someone else calls them tyraps! Everyone looks at me peculiarly when I say that so I have to change to cable ties.
I recall soaking PVC? sleeving in tric (trichoroethalene?) until it increased in size, putting it on the cable and letting it shrink back to normal. Happy days.
Oh and BTW we called the three pronged sleeving pliers honeymoon pliers. I wonder why? I still have a pair.
Martin

I did my apprenticeship working for Rolls Royce Small Engine Division - De Havilland back in the day - early ‘70’s, and we knew them as Hellerman pliers. I remember the wiremen making up helicopter wiring looms on 8 x 4 sheets of ply with just a few pencil marks and a few nails to act as guides. These were experimental units, not even pre-production. Good days.

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

Yes I too remember, when I served my apprenticeship in Halstead, plywood sheets being used as backing boards. They were studded with guide nails for the 'girls' in the wiring dept to make the looms around. Then they'd lace them up. I can't remember though how the lacing knot went, just that if the lace broke later the whole loom would not unravel. Happy days.
Martin

 

[JimTaylor]

I seen to remember that hellerman was fish oil. This thread is a blast from the past as an ex Arborfield REME apprentice tech.

 

[Phil Simpkin]

I used to be the i.diot (still an i.diot) that was the MD of Lem Heme when David stepped up to Chairman.

John ??

 

[deema]

John ??

Yep, that’s me!

 

[Phil Simpkin]

Yep, that’s me!

How are you doing good to hear from you. My email is [email protected]