Hi! My name is Cole Wright with KDAR Company, and today we were going to be talking about our tensioning tools that fall under our Pro Tie brand of products.

So we have three tensioning tools here at KDAR You've got this blue, and in my right hand, which we'll go over first, this is specific to nylon plastic cable ties.

This tensioning tool is only rated for cable ties between 18# and 50# lbs., and it will automatically cut the cable tie once it reaches tension. So as I’ll demonstrate here, slide it into the slot, pull the trigger, and then as you keep pulling as stated, it will cut once it reaches tension.

The red tensioning tool, however, has got a little bit of a different feature, whereas, yes, it will certainly still cut the tie. It also allows you to keep tightening it as you best see fit, or if you want to cut it before you reach a certain tension, you can also do that as well.

Big lever down here, this will tighten tight if you want to keep tightening it, you can attempt to, but it will not cut until you pull this lever over here, just like so.

You'll see we've got a stainless steel cable tie wrapped around a piece of wood and then our basic tensioning tool. 

So what we do is we wrap it around the end of this tie, and we want to make sure that as we are turning this and coiling it in, because again, this is stainless steel, so we can't cut it, such as we would do with a plastic tie because it essentially creates a razor blade and we do not want it hurt yourself.

So we wrap this up, and we want to rotate it externally to the pawl of the cable tie so that way we can continue to tighten this tie should we need to do that.

And you got to watch out for the fact that it might slip out if you're not careful.

It is certainly not as user-friendly as the plastic cable ties, but again, we are dealing with stainless steel, so we want to be certainly more cautious as we are using this.

So once you've got it coiled up at this point, now you can continually twist, and there you are.

And that's a stainless steel tensioning tool. If you have any other questions regarding our tensioning tools or other products that we carry, please visit our website at kdarco.com.

Thanks!