Above 1200 Sq/FT 86's 20HP shop

[86turbodsl]

Yes, i bought the larger ones based on your feedback for the forklift mast. I have 3 of them now, i'll probably add more as i work on cars or equipment that needs them. I know the regular pliers are well loved, but i haven't invested in those yet. The quality is amazing. Since i own german cars, i've grown to appreciate the quality.

I'm building a monitor mount for my home office tonight, and used the knipex pliers to pull the snap ring and cv joint apart. I have factory kits to rebuild them, i'll get all the CV's but the rear inner done by tomorrow. I'm probably going to get the car on the road again, work on getting another ready to run the roads then pull the rear subframe for a refresh and then the whole car will be done.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Knipex stuff is amazing except their wire snips

 

[Bob Heine]

I am just starting my knipex collection. I want one of all of them... lol.

the little nubs on the end were too large for the holes in the snap rings.

@86turbodsl, I can't even dream of buying all of them but have a couple of favorites. My first Knipex purchase was their Oetiker clamp tool. No tool I owned came close to working in the tight space I needed to work. I bought a pair of Knipex Flat Nose Pliers for $14.14 (back in 2016) just because of the price and was so impressed I bought the Knipex 8-Piece Circlip Snap-Ring Red Pliers Set when none of my Harbor Freight stuff would touch the circlips in an ABS unit. As my grip weakens my go-to cutting tool is the 7" Knipex bolt cutter (on the left in second photo. Amazon has it on sale for a stupid low price at the moment:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001D9IW2/?tag=atomicindus08-20
My other Knipex is a small (7") pliers wrench because I have lost the ability to guess how big a Crescent wrench I need to loosen a hex garden hose end. This little one opens and locks on at 1.5" (40mm) and everything smaller.

Knipex stuff is amazing except their wire snips

@83VillageRepair, I don't have any of those so good to know. Their little compound action bolt cutter (the one in the above link) sure works great for me. I no longer have to put diagonal cutters in the jaws of a big vise to squeeze when my hand couldn't do it.

 

[86turbodsl]

Nice analysis. I'll look at getting some of those bolt cutters. My grip is starting to fade a bit. It's all downhill over 50.. Lol.

 

[Mr.zippy]

Exactly what I just did. My grip has been less than stellar lately……Dammit Bob.

 

[rattle_snake]

Suddenly I need a set of Knipex pliers. Damn you guys!

Just made space in my tools box, have to fill it.

 

[bulletpruf]

Y'all forgot the Knipex Cobra pliers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4KNTG/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[86turbodsl]

what makes those pliers good?

 

[zanyad]

what makes those pliers good?

Very easy to adjust size with the button in the swivel. Unlike regular tongue-and-groove water-pump pliers, these you don't have to open fully and perfectly align the grooves.

 

[86turbodsl]

Water pump pliers? Is that another name for channel locks?

 

[racer-john]

Water pump pliers? Is that another name for channel locks?

Yes.

 

[Bob Heine]

Y'all forgot the Knipex Cobra pliers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4KNTG/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Ha! I didn't fall for that one Scott. Instead I ordered the Knipex 10-inch Alligator water pump pliers that's on sale for $26 [40% off] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X4J2VQ/?tag=atomicindus08-20). An Alligator has much higher bite force than a Cobra.

Ah, ****! A Knipex Long Nose Pliers With Cutter for $26.49 [54% off] fell in the basket when I wasn't paying attention (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X4MOVG/?tag=atomicindus08-20). To be fair, I don't own a decent pair of needle nose pliers. I know it's TMI but the older you get the stronger and longer those nose hairs become.

 

[Mr.zippy]

Dammit Bob……stop! Just stop

 

[SilverJimmy]

The best feature of the Knipex Cobra pliers is that they do not require a squeeze to grab what you are trying to work. I would demo them by putting the plier around a piece of pipe and then stand on the handle. With nothing holding the handles together they never slipped! Made the sale almost 100% of the time. Another Knipex product that I highly recommend is their large battery cable cutters. Many a car has been saved from burning to the ground when a tech accidentally let the smoke out of some electrical component and needed an emergency battery disconnecter! I always keep my pair close at hand when working on my cars.

 

[Bob Heine]

Dammit Bob……stop! Just stop

@Mr.zippy, I can't help myself. Like Prusa junkies, Knipex junkies have no control.

I would demo them by putting the plier around a piece of pipe and then stand on the handle.

@SilverJimmy, the Alligator pliers do the same thing. It's a big selling point for me (my feet are involved in a surprising number of projects).

 

[SilverJimmy]

And with Knipex it’s easy to tell the vintage ones…
Made in West Germany!

 

[86turbodsl]

You guys gotta stop, i have a monthly budget i have to stay within!!!

 

[86turbodsl]

Last night, i fiddled with CV joint assembly the whole night. I managed to get the propshaft reinstalled and ONE cv shaft done.
I hope to get the last one done tonight and then i'll be able to work on the exhaust again.

 

[rattle_snake]

CV jobs are a greasy PITA. No fun. That what I was working on last time I found my snap ring pliers were lacking.

 

[Johanfpa]

CV jobs are a greasy PITA. No fun. That what I was working on last time I found my snap ring pliers were lacking.

You should get some Knipex ones

 

[jbmatth]

Well thank you all for enabling more purchases, I've used the Alligator and Cobra pliers in a variety of sizes for years at work and at home, absolutely love them. I now have the cutter and needle nose headed this way too. Bob should have posted from an affiliate link to make some side hustle money.

JB

 

[rattle_snake]

You should get some Knipex ones

Yes I agree, thanks for the support.

Looks like cobra version has the button on the wrong side of the tool. Alligator it is.

 

[scooterbum46]

Water pump pliers? Is that another name for channel locks?

Ya gotta be of a certain age.. Older vehicle water pumps had a packing nut you tightened when the pump started dripping..

From the interwebz "Pump pliers originally were designed for the tightening and removing of water pump packing nuts. The first design was marketed by the Champion–DeArment Tool Company under the trademarked name Channellock® in the 1930s. The company later changed its name to match its product."

 

[Johanfpa]

Bob should have posted from an affiliate link to make some side hustle money.

JB

I blame Bob H as well

 

[SilverJimmy]

Just want to be sure everyone knows which ones I was referring to….

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4KPOY/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Hopefully the boss will get paid a bit too!

 

[86turbodsl]

Ya gotta be of a certain age.. Older vehicle water pumps had a packing nut you tightened when the pump started dripping..

From the interwebz "Pump pliers originally were designed for the tightening and removing of water pump packing nuts. The first design was marketed by the Champion–DeArment Tool Company under the trademarked name Channellock® in the 1930s. The company later changed its name to match its product."

Ah, older than me. Oldest car i ever worked on was mid 50's Y block and a 331 Hemi. i think that was 53-ish. Dad's still got a flathead at mom's house i need to unload. I haven't made much progress emptying out his shop.

 

[bulletpruf]

Ah, older than me. Oldest car i ever worked on was mid 50's Y block and a 331 Hemi. i think that was 53-ish. Dad's still got a flathead at mom's house i need to unload. I haven't made much progress emptying out his shop.

Always thought it would be cool to put a 331 or a 354 hemi into an early Ford hot rod of some sort. They're still somewhat affordable, too, unlike the 392 and 426.

 

[Bob Heine]

A 331 hemi is one of the greatest engines ever. I got to drive my grandfather's '53 Chrysler Crown Imperial when it was 11 years old (I was 18). It was pretty cool with real wire wheels and a semi-automatic transmission. It had a clutch you engaged to get the car moving and disengaged when you stopped but the transmission could do the shifting (I preferred to override that feature). Pretty sure I chose the sport jacket to match the metallic green/gray of the car.

 

[SilverJimmy]

My first car was a 52 Imperial with a 331 Hemi and that same transmission. I was not yet 15 and got it from my Grandparents neighbor. It was non running when I got it and was still non running when I traded it for a MG Midget. Hemi 4 door boat vs red running sport car….. what’s a teenager gonna do?! The engine in the MG didn’t last very long either! The Imperial was built during the Korean War so it didn’t have any chrome on it as chrome was essential to the war effort, so it had weird plastic coated shiny bumpers, at least where the plastic was still attached on the bumpers. The best thing about that old Chrysler was the radio. I lived on the border between Arizona and Utah in Page. The nearest town was 135 miles away. That tube AM radio could pickup stations many states away. Spent many warm summer nights dreaming about the places I was going to drive my cruiser to listening to that radio!

 

[Bob Heine]

The best thing about that old Chrysler was the radio. I lived on the border between Arizona and Utah in Page. The nearest town was 135 miles away. That tube AM radio could pickup stations many states away. Spent many warm summer nights dreaming about the places I was going to drive my cruiser to listening to that radio!

@SilverJimmy, I forgot about that. My grandparents lived in Rutland, Vermont and an AM transistor radio wouldn't pick up any of the great Rock&Roll stations. The one in the Chrysler captured signals from Buffalo, New York (350 miles away) and New York City (250 miles away). It sounded better than my father's Grundig Majestic HiFi. Of course, the best reception was at night when the AM signal bounced off the ionosphere.

 

[scooterbum46]

My first legal driving was in my folks '56 Ford Country Sedan with the 312 "T-Bird" engine. Loved that car - it had factory style air that my dad installed in the Ford garage for the dealer, then bought the car a year later. My first ride was a '31 Model A pickup..

 

[86turbodsl]

Pretty neat. My dad's first car was a 54' Ford Sunliner convertible, that had, in the 50s! 292, stick, power windows, power locks, power top, power steering and power brakes, power seat (i think) it would be beyond rare now. He years later found another convertible that was similar without all the other power stuff. that was the one he had when he died, and it came back to my house for the daughter's graduation parade and final service before going to a collector in 2020.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Always thought it would be cool to put a 331 or a 354 hemi into an early Ford hot rod of some sort. They're still somewhat affordable, too, unlike the 392 and 426.

I could make that happen. Dad has a running driving one in his inventory

 

[SilverJimmy]

@SilverJimmy, I forgot about that. My grandparents lived in Rutland, Vermont and an AM transistor radio wouldn't pick up any of the great Rock&Roll stations. The one in the Chrysler captured signals from Buffalo, New York (350 miles away) and New York City (250 miles away). It sounded better than my father's Grundig Majestic HiFi. Of course, the best reception was at night when the AM signal bounced off the ionosphere.

Yup, the famous ionosphere skip that every HAM Radio geek lives for! My dear dad was a HAM since the early 50’s, claimed to have “heard” Sputnik before the government did, and was always trying to talk to someone on the other side of the world, just so he could ask them about the weather!

 

[86turbodsl]

I heard WJR(Detroit) from Florida once. I thought that was pretty cool since back then the Tigers were on it.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Used to listen to WNOR all around the world on the MARS radio when on westpac.

 

[scooterbum46]

My buddy's dad was an Oldsmobile executive, drove Starfire convertibles with the Wonderbar radios. We always listened to WBZ Boston while cruising at night (he kept the year old one for a family car when he got the new one).

 

[86turbodsl]

More **** came my way. The suspension i went to bolt onto the audi has bad bushings, they are all cracked and separating. i should have looked at them before, but i missed it. so i ordered a kit from fcpeuro. it'll be another week. Meanwhile, i'll get started on the exhaust. One good thing, the car already had fcpeuro kit on it, and it has a lifetime warranty, so i only have to buy the replacement kit difference in cost. So it's more like 300 instead of 600. Oh well. It'll be a new car when i get done. And it's snowing here, not happy about that.

I am happy about my anniversary. 28 years today. She's a keeper. She puts up with me.

 

[Kevkx125]

Happy anniversary 86 !!!

 

[rmack898]

Congratulations, not everyone gets it right but you two have it.