STR-50 “PIN STRIP”
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Page 3
Date rev. 26/04/2016
Rev. 03
The STR-50 pliers is made of special steel, (5mm thickness). The coupling of the jaws is made on rectified
areas and central hole, providing to the tool precision in its movements.
The cutting blades, made of hardened steel, are rectified to give the maximum accuracy.
As shown in Figure 1, the tool has a recovery spring and a specially designed ergonomic shape handle that
reduce the operator’s fatigue.
The pliers has small dimensions (150 mm) which make it lightweight (about 100 gr.) and therefore very easy
to handle.
Furthermore, as explained above, the tool is supplied in a kit and includes two sliding adjustable blades
(marked by 1 and 2) to be used according to the type of connectors that have to be cut.
3. CUTTING LENGTH (pitch) ADJUSTMENT
The tool is supplied with two sliding adjustable blades (marked by 1 and by 2) to install according to
operator’s requirements.
The installed standard blade (1) it is suitable for almost all “Pin Strip” types.
The second supplied blade (2), it is suitable for some 90° angled pin strip connectors or for other particular
models.
Before using the pliers, it is necessary to adjust the sliding blade depending on the length/pitch of “Pin
Strips” that has to be cut.
To make the adjustment make the following steps:
1.
Loosen the fixing blade knob (Fig. 1).
2.
Place the connector, in correspondence of the blades where the cut is needed, precisely at the
centre among the two plastic body of the connectors (Fig. 3).
3.
Tighten the pliers bringing the cutting blades in contact with the connectors, without make the
cutting while holding the pliers in this position.
4.
Place the “metal pin” on the sliding adjustable blade stop, trying to maintain the parallelism with the
pliers (Fig. 2).
5.
Tighten completely the fixing blade knob (Fig. 1).
N.B.
NEVER loosen the adjustment screw sealed with red glue (Fig. 1).
BLADE
Fig. 2
UPPER
BLADE
Fig. 3
LOWER
BLADE
PIN STRIP
PIN STRIP
METAL PIN
