CHAPTER 3
TOOLS AND TEST EQUIPMENT
As a third class GSE or GSM, you will be
tools described in the following sections are some
working with different types of hand tools and
that you might use, but with which you possibly
testing equipment. Your responsibilities include
are not familiar.
the routine maintenance of the equipment in your
engineering spaces. After reading this chapter, you
should be able to describe some of the devices you
WIRE-TWISTER PLIERS
may use during your maintenance procedures. The
devices discussed in this chapter are not all the
Wire-twister pliers (fig. 3-1) are three-way
tools and equipment that a GS3 might use. For
pliers that hold, twist, and cut. They are designed
further information, refer to Use and Care of Hand Tools
to reduce the time used in twisting safety wire on
and Measuring Tools, NAVEDTRA 12085, and the Navy
nuts and bolts. To operate them, grasp the wire
Electricity and Electronics Training Series
between the two diagonal jaws, and then use your
(NEETS), modules 1, 3, and 16. To determine the
thumb to bring the locking sleeve into place.
specific device recommended for each procedure,
When you pull on the knob, the twister twirls and
refer to the appropriate manufacturers' technical
makes uniform twists in the wire. You can push
manuals, the Naval Ships' Technical Manual,
back the spiral rod into the twister without
and/or other information books.
unlocking it. Then another pull on the knob will
give a tighter twist to the wire. A squeeze on
the handle unlocks the twister. Now you can
HAND TOOLS
cut the wire to the desired length with the side cut-
Everyone has used a hand tool at one time or
ter. Occasionally, lubricate the spiral of the
another for some type of job. The types of hand
twister.
Figure 3-1.--Wire-twister pliers.
3-1
