electrician's pliers

Cut through one of the armor coils with diagonal-cutting electrician's pliers.

Dong connected the wires between the main the power-pack, tightening the terminals with electrician's pliers.

What I'd change: The kit could use a pair of multipurpose electrician's pliers, with strippers sized for different gauges of wire.

The only tools needed are a screwdriver, a pair of needle-nose or electrician's pliers and a continuity tester, an inexpensive device (available at hardware stores) consisting of a tiny light bulb from which two wires protrude.

One of the most profound memories of his youth was watching his father, a French Canadian plasterer, carpenter and electrician, sitting in the kitchen next to the wood-burning stove, drinking a bottle of whisky and pulling out his teeth, good ones and bad, with his electrician's pliers.