What do you use your battery terminal pliers for?

[Flinter987]

School required us to buy a pair as a required tool. Mine look pretty but I never pull them out to use them. I always tend to just pull out the right size wrench or socket. Do these tools have a use beyond battery nuts?

 

[WittHay]

Used my Snap-on pair the other day, changed a couple of batteries on a 1999 Dodge Cummins diesel. Obviously on newer batteries and Group 31's not necessary. but on lot of older stuff there is no right size wrench due to corrosion or just plain rust

They are like Vise-Grips they clamp onto rusted nuts instead of rounding them off like regular wrenches or sockets

 

[mbshop]

Umm, what kind or style cuz I'm old school.

 

[Flinter987]

Umm, what kind or style cuz I'm old school.

Something like this... I have several pairs including this one.

 

[ken w.]

I break mine out when I see crappy terminal nuts. I keep a pair in my road box.

 

[Ramblin Man]

I use mine on the lock rings on universal joints in drive shafts. The best use I have found for them yet, and they do good at that.

 

[apollo11]

I use mine on the lock rings on universal joints in drive shafts. The best use I have found for them yet, and they do good at that.

me too.

 

[Flinter987]

Awesome! Thanks guys!

 

[Fedwrench]

Think of the battery terminal pliers as a mini set of nut busters. You use them on almost any size small fastener head to grip it really tight if you have the space. They're also good as a paperweight to keep repair orders from blowing around

 

[Flinter987]

They're also good as a paperweight to keep repair orders from blowing around

That's awesome!!! I'll have to remember that one!

 

[kblee27]

I bought a couple of them to remove corroded nuts, but seems to have forgotten about them, after I got a Knipex Cobra

 

[Flinter987]

I bought a couple of them to remove corroded nuts, but seems to have forgotten about them, after I got a Knipex Cobra

Good point. Yeah, I've got the Knipex as well.

 

[CJM8515]

I used them all the time when i was am mechanic on corroded or stripped terminal nuts. Chrysler was the worse with those pos soft lead terminals.

 

[bonneyman]

Blue Bird (Bergman tools) made a whole line of battery service tools (other tools,too) and among those were a fairly wide assortment of pliers. Though they are no longer made, I've managed to find all of the pliers, still lacking a few of their other battery tools.
I use them mostly on evaporative coolers for fasteners that are rusted too badly for sockets.