How Hand Tools Are Made
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2022
- Arguably, in the construction industry, we get to see some really cool things. Behind the scenes stuff that most folks would never see!! But, in this latest episode of Electrician U, Dustin has the opportunity to visit the KLEIN factory near Chicago and see the process of making Klein Tools! There are many tool manufacturers in the world. And for almost all of us tradesmen (and women), its just like Fords and Chevys! We are usually loyal to either one or the other! But to see the process of making tools from one of the Top Shelf manufacturers is an awesome opportunity! It doesn’t get much cooler than that!
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There are several different ways to manufacture a tool with the two most common being Casting and Forging. Casting is the process of pouring a liquid metal (also Super-Hot!!) into some type of mold to get it to the desired shape you want. Forging, on the other hand, is the process of taking a piece of metal, heating it up so it can be worked, and hammering (either by hand or with a machines help) repeatedly into the shape you are after. Klein tools uses forging to produce their tools as forged steel typically is stronger and less prone to breakage/wear resulting in a better product. I am not a metallurgist, but something to do with altering the grain flows within the steel itself! We wouldn’t expect any less from the Top Producer of Electrical Tools!
The first step in the process (for our tour of the plant, we witnessed the forging of Lineman’s pliers, but the general steps would be relatively the same for any plier type tool) is taking 20’ long pieces of high strength tube steel and cutting them into smaller pieces to be worked. The pieces are then fed onto an assembly line where they are fed thru an electrical induction heater to heat the material so it can be worked (and by hot, I mean Glowing Red Hot!!). The next several steps are where the magic actually happens! A series of huge machines hammers the steel into the desired rough shape and then splits the tool into the two individual parts. These forging machines are VERY BIG and smash the steel into its desired shape with TONS (literally) of force! An amazing sight to see, to say the very least!! And while this process is mostly automated (as the stamping action is performed by a machine doing the heavy lifting), it still relies on human interaction to complete the process. So, from a worker standpoint, it is the best of both worlds!!
An annealing process is next, where again, the steel is heated up to change the properties of it so it will result in a better tool in the end. The parts are then tumbled (in a process similar to sand blasting, but with steel shot) to remove the scaling from the steel during the heating and forging steps. A sort of pre machining process called Coining is one of the last things to be done before the individual parts are sent off for final machining and assembly. This Coining process is an additional machining step that Klein takes which results in the tolerances being much tighter than without this step (again, another reason why Klein is considered Top Shelf!!).
At this point in the forging process, we have two separate pieces of what we would recognize as a pair of Lineman’s Pliers. The separate pieces are now sent off to a different plant to be assembled into the final product. One of the awesome things about Klein Tools is that the entire journey of their tools is done here in the USA! American manufacturing is some of the best in the world and Klein Tools takes pride in its tools that are used to build America, right here in the states! Unlike many manufacturers that claim to be Made in the USA, by doing a single part of it, but the WHOLE process!
We hope this has been an insightful look into the awesome process of forging a pair of Klein pliers. We do have other videos available that show the finish machining/assembly process as well as other Klein Tool manufacturing. Make sure to check those out!! Is there something you would like to see in future videos? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section and let us know! Please continue to follow Dustin and Electrician U as we are constantly adding new content to help our followers learn all about this awesome trade we are in!!
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No wonder they are so strong. I’ve used them as an attachment point to pull out 10 Ton tractor and they worked perfectly with 0 slop in the hinge after. I was astonished they weren’t affected.
I like my Klein tools even more now that I’ve seen how they are made.
Great info! Klein is always my first choice and have been in my shop for 35+ years😎
Am always fascinated about how things are made especially in this type of industry, not to mention the ingenuity and the creativity.
They also have tools made in Germany, one of my favorite pairs of pliers are the groove locking ones with the yellow handles.
Thanks for sharing your visit! I always like to support local and American, and have more than a few Klein products.
Educational and interesting video …. KLEIN are practically labor intensive. Precision is very high when forging. No wonder KLEIN are longer lasting, durable and of better quality
Fascinating! Human ingenuity, eh. Imagine if we only did good what we could accomplish.
Glad to see it’s completely fabricated in the US. I’d definitely buy from Klein.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
I am just glad to see something that is truly made here in the USA I always try to buy American when I can, especially tools. the quality of a good tool in my hand makes me want to do quality work with it. Thx Dustin and Klein
Love seeing this stuff! After I picked up blacksmithing I was amazed at how much I didn't know about metal and metalworking. Your confusion between foundry work where liquid casting is done to make and forging work done by blacksmiths is normal. Hollywood does this to everyone. Blacksmiths never melt metal and pour it into casts (or at least when some get into that they are no longer doing blacksmithing). Cast iron is brittle and weak. Forged steel is super strong which is why items like pliers and hand tools are forged. Engine blocks are cast. Crankshafts. piston rods and camshafts are forged.
In metalworking sold bars of metal are never called "tubes". We use terms like "round bar" or "round stock", and "square bar". Solid stock is called bars, even when round.
We have square and rectangular tube stock and these are all hollow. 1" square tube has a nominal outside dimension of 1". the outside dimension is what they are measured size by.
A pipe is round hollow metal meant for holding liquid or air INSIDE them so the inside dimension is what is critical. So 1" pipe, has a 1"+ inside dimension, but is distorted by an odd and very long history of size conventions!
The convention in Electrical work to call all the conduit "tube" when it is measured and used as pipe (the inside dimension is important), is interesting and oddly backward from other trades.
Every industry has its own historic use of terms to learn!
Klein makes good stuff. great video.
Next time I look at the price of Klein tool and think that's a little high, I'm going to think of that American worker moving that red-hot tool blanks from one machine to another and purchase the Klein tool.
Because of Electrician U.
I only purchase Klein electrical tools when possible. Bryan Pine. Go Solar Guam, USA, and Polaris Power Philippines.
"Hot working improves the material properties of the workpiece because it replaces the microstructure with one that has fine spherical shaped grains. These grains increase the strength, ductility, and toughness of the material."
Hey Dustin! Don't know if anyone has suggested it yet, but I think it would be cool if you made a short video about in-wall splice kits. Just curious what your thoughts are on them because some journeymen I've worked with think they're great in a pinch, but my current boss is pretty opposed to using them
Can you please do a video on motor starters/ motor controllers what the difference is and how exactly they work and what functions they have and how they protect the motor etc please
He's an electrician, sometimes electrical engineers are better explaining technical aspects, physics, etc.
The internet recently blew up over a piece on the nature of the flow of electricity done by hugely popular science communicator, Derek Muller(Veritasium).
It was electrical engineer vloggers that got their hackles up over his piece and errors or percieved errors.
Electricians have their place, but electrical engineers have more depth as far as technical aspects, physics, reasond behind particular practices or designs when it comes to all things electrical.
Damn hot stuff 🥵
It's interesting to watch how Klein tools are actually made. Their tools might be expensive but they are worth every dollar.
I agree
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You were in elk Grove village I'll at Klein tools ..... dude ... you were so close to me you could have pissed in my back yard. Oh ya I am well aware the difference . But cool none the less.
Yes there is a difference between forging and casting
Think samurai sword are hammered and tempered would difference in property compared to a poured piece of hot liquid metal
hey can you do a video on busways?
Can 208 low voltage be connected to single phase?
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It good to know that Klein still makes SOME of it's tools here (the regular fixed screw drivers and pliers) Sadly, MOST of their stuff is made in an Asian country...Any multi/combo driver or pliers, stripper, etc. LOVE watching how tools are made, since I have a TOOL ADDICTION LOL
I think everyone has a tool addiction. It's just measured in degrees (fill up your tool belt or fill up a warehouse). Thanks for watching.
So that we give Klein the credit they deserve here's what they say about their tool production process.
At Klein Tools, we’ve always made nearly all of our products in America. Today, the majority of the products we sell are made in the U.S. No other manufacturer of electrical hand tools makes more items in America than Klein Tools. We are still hyper focused on manufactured in America as that’s been our heritage for more than 160 years and continues to be the bulk of our product manufacturing. Our products are still forged in the U.S., using U.S. steel, and we’re very prideful of this approach.
@@ElectricianU Thanks Brother! And I totally understand, In the end, they will do what they can to stay competitive, profitable but keeping their roots! Be safe out there!
That’s why they cost more. Dam good product...
BUY STUFF MADE HERE IN THE USA!
I hope the air conditioning works in the summer.
I don't think that is US steel. That steel comes from a drawing machine. It is drawn into straight bars from round coils. Probably done in Michigan. But the coils of steel come from overseas. Most likely Asia.
good possibility, but maybe they keep everything US and buy steel from a USA steel producer not sure how many are left but US Steel does still operate in NW Indiana. (Indiana is steel capitol of the US, Indiana produced 21.6 million tons of steel in 2020)
Here's what Klein says about their steel.
Klein Tools sources all of its proprietary steel for American-made products from our forging facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. We use a proprietary blend of steel that only Klein Tools uses and we source this only in America.
@@ElectricianU Wow. That is important. Thank you.
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Question, why does it matter if it was made in the US. If the tools is of quality does it really matter?
@@jahmanborneo1343 oh ok thank you for the information