slang...

[ultramegabob]

Does anyone else on here call split bolts "Kerneys"?

 

[stickboy1375]

Whats a split bolt?? :grin:

 

[kkwong]

Yup. I do.

 

[K2500]

I've heard it, but I don't use it.
http://www.tradeslang.com/

 

[mdshunk]

Does anyone else on here call split bolts "Kerneys"?

If someone asked me to get a Kerney, I'd know what they were asking for, but it's not in common use in my area. That's a term favored by men trained in the 50's and 60's, in my experience. On the other hand, "Kearney cover" is a term I stil hear popularly in use, which refers to the plastic clamshell type cover you can click over top of a split bolt instead of taping it up.
Kearney is a brand name.

 

[480sparky]

Whats a split bolt?? :grin:

 

[stickboy1375]

I was just kidding, with better products out there I thought it was funny to ask what a split bolt was...

 

[ultramegabob]

Kearney is a brand name.

I kinda figgured that, kinda like everyone calling NM Romex...

 

[boboelectric]

we call them Burndeys.

 

[480sparky]

I was just kidding, with better products out there I thought it was funny to ask what a split bolt was...

But there may be someone out there who doesn't know what they are....

 

[ultramegabob]

somehow split bolts came up in a conversation today, and I called them Kerneys, a guy I work with hadnt heard them called that before, just curious how many other people call them that....

 

[mdshunk]

somehow split bolts came up in a conversation today, and I called them Kerneys, a guy I work with hadnt heard them called that before, just curious how many other people call them that....

Are you presently in your 60's or 70's? Not slamming you... just testing out my theory. If not, did you apprentice primarily to a person who was trained in the 1950's or 1960's?

 

[ultramegabob]

Are you presently in your 60's or 70's? Not slamming you... just testing out my theory. If not, did you apprentice primarily to a person who was trained in the 1950's or 1960's?

no, but my grandfather was an electrician, and my father picked up alot of his slang, and I think I picked it up from him....

 

[R Bob]

somehow split bolts came up in a conversation today, and I called them Kerneys, a guy I work with hadnt heard them called that before, just curious how many other people call them that....

When I started out in the trade, we called them "bugs".
Most people under 50 have no idea what I'm talking about today.

 

[mdshunk]

When I started out in the trade, we called them "bugs".
Most people under 50 have no idea what I'm talking about today.

Just heard that from a lineman the other day. He's nearing retirement, but he was explaining how he wears gloves so much that he's dexterous enough to "put on a number 8 bug".

 

[ultramegabob]

When I started out in the trade, we called them "bugs".
Most people under 50 have no idea what I'm talking about today.

I have heard that term also, and scotchlocks are beanies or jellybeans....

 

[jerm]

we call them both, either. I think everyone in our shop knows that a kearney is a splitbolt. don't use many of them though. PEDs instead.

 

[mdshunk]

, and scotchlocks are beanies or jellybeans....

Funny, I know "beanies" as the Dolphin-type connector the alarm guys use. Sorts like an insulated crimp with a bunch of teeth inside that you smash with your pliers.

 

[480sparky]

I have heard that term also, and scotchlocks are beanies or jellybeans....

This is a beanie to me....

 

[jerm]

We call those b-line splices. use them on security and fire alarm installs sometimes. I don't have any on the truck though, not used often enough.