Jeff000

I still like the blue ideal can twists.
Never used the tan ones.

the gorilla ones seemed harder to tighten, and don't come even close to the performance of the blue can twist with a pair of wires and not pre twisting.

kawimudslinger

yah the Ideal can twists are all we use here too...by far the best tightening/hold.

sbrn33

My supplier gave me a box of these. I don't really like them to much. OK for 14 or smaller. I will take a tan any day before these. They are hard to get any decent torque on.
One of my guys loves the 3M tan/red combo so I get him those but everybody else gets the normal tans.
I am not a pre-twister though. Total waste of time.

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Mike_586

I also like the 3M ones with the flexible skirt for some situations. But day in, day out, the Can-Twist or high temp Can-Twist XTs are what I use for the majority of my work.

FYI the blue are 105C rated and the black are 150C rated.

I'll try out new products from time to time, I remember when the tan wirenuts that pre-date the Can-Twists hit the market and I though they were the greatest thing, and I've seen lots of products that I simply pass over.

If free samples are being handed out, or I hear great things about them from a number of guys I know, I'd probably give them a shot. But I find the name and logo kinda gimmicky and that's enough for me to ignore the product outright because more often than not, gimmicky is just that. But when I think of it, the name itself is a serious strike against it. I see the humor in it and it doesn't offend me in the slightest, but I just don't see myself ever buying a product that could lead to a guy asking for a pair of gorilla nuts while he's working in an occupied space, be it an office or someone's home. In today's PC world, I can very easily see the name or someone talking about them causing someone to take it wrong.

Shazbo inc.

This is bull, i asked a guy about those nuts before and the moderator alDong deleted my posts WTF. By the way i loves me some gorilla NUTS.

DCooper

Not to start a battle here, but "pre-twisting" is the splice, and the wire nut is a cap for that. The replacement to taping. At least that is how I was taught. I have a feeling if you pre-twist you would care less about the wire nut, and personally I would never rely on a $.20 spring plastic device to ensure a solid connection.

thegoldenboy

Let's keep twist vs no twist out of it. It's a subject that's been beaten to death alongside buried PVC boxes, carlon blues and SE cable.

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Dhfisher

Gentlemen, when first starting out in the trade I can remember carrying a solder pot, that you dip the wire in after twisting it together with your line mans,then wrapping a rubber mastic around the wire, finishing up with a wrap of friction tape, scotch locks and their like were the future, we then evolved to a copper collar that had a hole in it the wires went through with a set screw to compress / secure the wire, then followed by a bakalite insulated cap that was threaded to the collar, shortly after this compression collars with insulated caps came on the market. After this scotch locks were approved by UL and marketed now we have assorted mfg's producing like items. My preference is the Ideal wire nuts, easy on easy off. Technology marches on!

electricalperson

I just bought a box today. They're pretty good big but comfortable. I'm only 28 and my hands are already starting to hurt from twisting wirenuts

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wellpoison

anyone receive their free sample yet??

DCooper

Nope.

mcclary's electrical

I bought 500 of these and I'm going back to twister pro when they're gone. They feel top of the line out of the box, until your hands get a little sweaty. Then they're slick as eel snot.

TOOL_5150

Those things piss me off. 3M o/b, r/y and b/g is the only answer.

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