Probing Pliers

When you need to test wires in a wiring harness, it is often helpful to be able to probe the wires individually while everything is still connected together. The best way to do this is to probe each wire with a pin - service manuals will often even advise this technique. Up until now, I have been literally doing just that - pushing a straight pin into the wire. This is not the safest or most convenient manner of doing this, though. You can accidentally short something out. You can get stuck with the pin (ask me how I know). Or maybe you just don't have any straight pins laying around.

Enter my Probing Pliers. Simply connect the lead to your meter; lay the wire you need to probe in the gap; and squeeze.

To assemble this, you will need a single strand of CAT-5 with the insulation stripped; a push pin; and a length of 24 gauge hookup wire.

**[ UPDATE: 12/10/19 ]**
Per request, I have added a version_2 of the upper half that includes a smaller cutout deeper in for smaller gauge