The document identifies and describes common electrical tools needed for installing electrical wiring, including: - Screwdrivers (standard, Philips, stubby, Allen), hammers (claw, mallet, ballpeen), and pliers (combination, side cutting, long nose) for fastening screws and nuts or holding/bending wires. - Other tools are wire strippers for removing insulation from wires, electrician's knives for stripping high voltage cables, portable electric drills for making holes, and hacksaws for cutting metal conduit and armored cable. - These tools enable electricians to systematically complete wiring installation tasks by hand that could not otherwise be accomplished without assistance.

1. Electrical Tools and Equipment
Identify common electrical tools and
equipment needed in the installation
of electrical wiring.

2. Electrical Tools and Equipment
• Electrical task can be accomplished
systematically to save time, effort, and
resources. Most of the work cannot be done
using bare hands. To do the task, electrical
tools or equipment are needed to perform the
job.

3. • The following are common electrical tools and
equipment needed in the installation of
electrical wiring.

4. I. SCREW DRIVERS
• A. Standard/Flat Screw Driver.
• The blade tip is wedge-shapedand resembles
a negative (-) sign.
• This is used to drive screws with a single slot
head

5. • B. Philips Screw Driver.
• This has a cross tip resembling a positive (+)
sign.
• This is used to drive screws with cross slot
heads.

6. • C. Stubby Screw Driver
• It comes in either Standard or Philips screw
driver with short shank or blade and a shorted
handle used to turn screws in tight space where
standard screw driver cannot be used.

7. • D. Allen Screw Driver/Wrench.
• This could be in the shape of a screw driver or
a wrench.
• Its function is to drive screw with hexagonal
slot head.

8. II. HAMMERS.
• These are tools used in driving or pounding and
pulling out nails.
• They are made of hard steel, wood, plastic or
rubber. The following are types of hammer:
• A. Claw hammer
• B. Mallet(rubber head)
• C. Ballpeen hammer

9. III. PLIERS.
• These made from metal with insulators in the
handle and are used for cutting, twisting,
bending, holding, and gripping wires and
cables.

10. • A. Combination Pliers (Lineman’s Pliers).
• This is used for gripping, holding, and cutting
electrical wires and cables and even small
nails.
• They are usually used by linemen in doing
heavy tasks.

11. • B. Side Cutting Pliers.
• This type of pliers is used for cutting fine,
medium and big wires and cables.

12. • C. 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.

13. IV. Wire Stripper
• A tool used for removing insulationof medium
sized wires ranging from gauge #10 to gauge
#16.

14. V. Electrician’s Knife
• This is used by linemen to remove insulation
of wire and cables in low and high voltage
transmission lines.

15. VI. Portable Electric drill
• A small drilling machine with a chuck capacity
of ¼‖ to 3/8‖.
• It is used in making holes on metal sheets and
concrete walls.

16. VII. Hacksaw
• This tool is used to cut metal conduit and
armored cable.