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Got a phone call from my step-dad about some Channellocks. As an electrician, he wore out a few pairs of 430s over the years. He always used them and had a pair everywhere I think.

A few weeks ago he was talking about changing oil on his zero-turn mower. He said getting to the oil filter was difficult and I suggested a pair of Channellocks oil filter wrench. He had never seen them and I knew he probably wouldn't go buy a pair. So how often do you get to do something for your parents, I bought him a pair.

He'd called me today to thank me, he couldn't believe how easy they made it to change the oil.
 
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what driver ya get, Jeff? cant really see. #2 square? SL2?
and i havent gotten the new 'speeder' channeys.
i will, though
 
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I went to Home Depot for a gallon of paint and a couple rollers. Every time I go there, or to Lowe’s, I take a look down the tool aisles. Channellocks and are usually on the list of tools I check out. While both stores mostly offer the basic stuff, every now and then they have a new model or something a little different. When they do, for some reason, I end up buying them. I definitely don’t need them; I typically don’t really end up using them much; they’re never on sale; they take up valuable space in my box. Sure as **** I did it again today. Now I gotta invent some reason to use these instead of my all time favorite pair of #422s, which I use frequently.

Jim C.

(Sorry Jeff, I just noticed you posted a pair of these pliers a couple days ago.)
 

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Count me in. Not had them long but they are my most used pliers now. :thumbup:

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Picked up a pair of Champion De-Arment Nut Busters today. no mention of CL so fairly early.

This is before, they cleaned up pretty nice except for the bottom grip on one side. some deep pits there like it was in dirt for a while...

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Outlawmws said:
Picked up a pair of Champion De-Arment Nut Busters today. no mention of CL so fairly early.

This is before, they cleaned up pretty nice except for the bottom grip on one side. some deep pits there like it was in dirt for a while...
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Nice.
Those are early, before they added the reinforcement rib in the throat.
Heres mine. Made a little later but still Champion era...
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I have several different styles of Channellock brand pliers. I used to carry two sets of 420's with me every day at my job. In the mid 2000's I decided to replace them when the grips were coming off only to find that the new styles were thicker and I hated them. I now carry two sets of 10" Cobras. I still use Channellock 424's, 426's, 440's, 460's, and even have 480's but rarely have to get them out of the tool box. All those are the old style and have been used so little, they still look like new except for the 460's that I left in the rain.

Also, it's my personal opinion so it doesn't really matter, but I think the 546, 548, and 5410 are the best slip joint pliers money can buy.
 
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You know I "used to have" one of these 6 in 1 Channellock drivers some years back.

But made the big mistake of leaving it exposed in the room where a couple of contracted cable guys were installing cable lines in the room where I had been using it.

Well you guessed it. One of those MF'ers took/helped themselves, basically stole it from my house. A couple days after I actually realized that it was missing I called and complained to the cable company and explained everything to them. :mad:

They confirmed that yes I had service performed at my house by people they contracted too and apologized for it but quickly would not accept responsibility for replacement about the theft and said I needed to contact the contracting company, etc. about it. :(

Needless to say it quickly went no where with either company and well I was SOL. :mad:

That was one of my favorite Channellock tools too! :confused:

Too bad for me. I could never find another exactly like it either. :headscrat

P.S. so if you know where I can find and buy one exactly like the one in the picture please send me a PM, THANKS!
 

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jeffmoss26 said:
The one in the picture is a square driver. I believe you are looking for the MX-41 screwdriver.
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Well not really that particular Channellock tool.

The specific Channellock tool that I am indicating about is similar to the Channellock 61A 6-IN-1 tool as shown below with the blue and clear acetate handle that Channellock currently offers.

The original one had the handle that was completely in the solid light blue trademark Channellock color handle (just like in the picture you posted in your original post) and is exactly like the 61A tool.

The Channellock tool number for it was known as 61EZ 6N1.

Apparently Channellock has since stopped producing that, completely light blue handle and switched over to the light blue and clear acetate handle some years ago.

https://www.channellock.com/product/61a/
 

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Picked up this set from Circle C supply a few weeks ago. Haven't used them much, but I love them, already. They replaced my set of junk Amazon specials that were bought in a pinch. I've also got a Channellock 12 inch adjustable wrench, too.
 

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Dennis Leigh Henry said:
Hi Jeff.. what's the connection between Upson and Channellock? I must have missed it.. probably obvious... :)
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http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/11/vanished-tool-makers-upson-bros-inc.html

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The Hold-E-Zee screwdriver seems to have been the cash cow for the company and perhaps their sole product. They continued to advertise their screw drivers in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics up until 1968.

In that year, in a strange reversal of fortunes, an apparently new company out of Meadesville, Pennsylvania, Hold-E-Zee Ltd., filed to trademark "Upson." (Hold-E-Zee is still listed as a manufacturer of hand and edge tools and, as late as 1997, a design patent for a hand-held nut driver was being assigned to them.) Putting the pieces together, it seems likely that Hold-E-Zee was always, or is now, owned by Channellock (also out of Meadville) since until around 2004 the Channelock catalogue offered screwdrivers under the Hold-E-Zee name. (As an aside, the Channellock website has an interesting video on how their pliers are manufactured.)
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I picked up a set of the smaller ones at lowes to carry in my back pocket at work. They are rather sloppy compared to their bigger brothers. The vacuum packaging made it impossible to tell in the store. My coworkers doyle pliers put them to shame. If i knew, i would have picked ordered up some wilde pliers.

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as promised, my modest collection of channey hold ezee.
p14h, p24h, 52h,54h,56h,58h,77h
and, i consider rare, a black p24h.
also found on ebay, in the box, new, unused, a black 54h. adjustables were used, to weigh down the flaps to keep them open. the black handles, have the shaft area recessed, so the slider thingy can rest partially in the handle. (see last pic)
and after the pic shoot, i found another black 54h
 

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They screwed up Channel-locks in about '73 when they dropped the adjustable nut and went to a rivet. I have one adj nut, uninsulated pair that I keep an eye on. My favorite adj Pliers today are the Knipex Cam-Locks, but I have multiple pairs of CL's.
 
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