Side Cutters Or Shears...???

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The small ones I use for cutting everything from twin n earth to coax to Fp cables. I probably have cut other stuff like galv capping with them and maybe the odd steel wire...

Not the fault of the tool then, it's been used incorrectly. It's like saying a battery drill is garbage cause it was used as a hammer?

 

[daviddarwin]

One of the first tiny diagonal cutters I ever purchased was IGAN when I first started working as a handyman for hire. I purchased this pair because of its cutting capacity; it can handle steel wires up to 1/16-inch thick and copper wires up to 9 gauge. I have the freedom to cut just about any wire I would often come across in everyday work thanks to that.