Abstract: The armored cable cutter of the invention has an elongated saw carrier on which a circular saw blade is rotatable, hinged to an elongated cable carrier of U-shaped cross-section that defines a laterally opening cable receiving groove. A clamping member on the blade carrier, swingable about a trunnion axis parallel to the blade axis, has cable engaging surface portions disposed along a segment of a spiral about the trunnion axis to be at progressively increasing distances from that axis, the surface portions being configured symmetrically to the blade plane and for straddling engagement with a cable in the carrier groove. The clamping member, when swung into engagement with a cable in the groove, clamps it against one wall of the cable carrier and confines it with its diametral plane coinciding with the blade plane.

Abstract: A tube bender comprising a body having an upwardly opening hook at a front end thereof and having a bottom surface defined by a convexly arcuate bending shoe extending rearwardly from the hook has movable indicators, one for each of a plurality of bend angles, each of which rises to a signalling position when a tube being bent attains its bend angle. Each indicator has a pin-like shank slidable in a bore in the body that opens to the bottom surface near the vertical plane of symmetry of the shoe and at a location where a tube being bent contacts that surface upon attaining the bend angle for the indicator. A head on the indicator normally rests on an upwardly facing surface on the body to which the bore opens upwardly, with the shank projecting below said bottom surface. The head comes flush with an upwardly facing signalling surface on the body when the bend angle is attained.