Knipex Cobra

[jflores]

I ordered a set of these from Chad's with the comfort grip. Yay tax refund!

Just curious how many folks go with the plain dipped handles, which I'm used to on waterpump pliers. Or how many folks own either of the two big boys (16 and 22") and what you use them for. Or what kinds of things you use Cobras for in general, that may not be standard.

This is a popular plier, so I expect there are some interesting stories.

 

[Monte]

i have the comfort grip handle style. I only own a older pair of 10" cobras.

 

[ricleh]

The cobra pliers are excellent. The NWS quattro are just as good IMO.

 

[twincam00]

I prefer the plain dipped handles. the cobras are excellent pliers once you get used to them

 

[66HertzClone]

The cobra pliers are excellent. The NWS quattro are just as good IMO.

That is a very impressive collection, do you have one of every plier they make? Wow!

 

[Monte]

The cobra pliers are excellent. The NWS quattro are just as good IMO.

Knipex, NWS and even VBW The complete collection ! Very nice post again ricleh !

 

[scylla]

To ricleh, I don't see the NWS version of pliers wrench in your drawer, but if you have them, how are they? Compared to Knipix, that is.
I have been wanting to get the Knipix pliers wrench but there never seems to be a decent sale on them. In fact the price keeps creeping up.

 

[Sparkfarmer]

Just ordered 7" cobras with dipped handle, and trying to get them from ChadsToolbox is one hell of a story in itself.
(Also ordered NWS needle nose, fantasticos, and 10" NWS Quattro's.)

 

[Squankum]

It seems like every use I find for my Cobras is non-standard!

I have plain dip handles on my Cobras. Sales at Lowe's. Handles don't bother me, even though they look thin/small for my big hands.

I also have some 8" needle noses from them with comfort grips, which I've really come to like.

 

[ricleh]

To ricleh, I don't see the NWS version of pliers wrench in your drawer, but if you have them, how are they? Compared to Knipix, that is.
I have been wanting to get the Knipix pliers wrench but there never seems to be a decent sale on them. In fact the price keeps creeping up.

In the upper right with the Knipex plier wrenches. The one with the yellow and black grips. They are just as good as the Knipex IMO, but they don't have the selection of sizes that Knipex does. The design is slightly different in that one of the jaws pivots. This allows a grip on non parallel surfaces. The Knipex jaws are always parallel to each other.

 

[ricleh]

Knipex, NWS and even VBW The complete collection ! Very nice post again ricleh !

Also a few Beta hiding in there. This drawer contains most of my Euro made pliers. Snapon, Japanese and other U.S. brand pliers are in other drawers. Also more NWS and Knipex are in the Hazet Assistents and the KTC tool buggy.

 

[scylla]

In the upper right with the Knipex plier wrenches. The one with the yellow and black grips. They are just as good as the Knipex IMO, but they don't have the selection of sizes that Knipex does. The design is slightly different in that one of the jaws pivots. This allows a grip on non parallel surfaces. The Knipex jaws are always parallel to each other.

Ahh I see them now. Thanks for the answer. And I did wonder what the meaning was for the pivoting upper jaw I see in NWS pics.

 

[el tanque prohibido]

Just curious how many folks go with the plain dipped handles, which I'm used to on waterpump pliers.

I prefer the regular grips. I don't like the bulky type grips.

 

[RKA]

I ordered a set of these from Chad's with the comfort grip. Yay tax refund!

Just curious how many folks go with the plain dipped handles, which I'm used to on waterpump pliers. Or how many folks own either of the two big boys (16 and 22") and what you use them for. Or what kinds of things you use Cobras for in general, that may not be standard.

This is a popular plier, so I expect there are some interesting stories.

Last time I pulled them out was to replace the washing machine hoses. They didn't work, I had to take out the dremel and cut the fittings and pry them off the shut off valves. It appeared 15 years of rust stopped the cobras dead in their tracks! Oh well.

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

I prefer the regular grips. I don't like the bulky type grips.

This, and I was very impressed with Knipex Cobra.

 

[Trucky]

I have the 7 and 10" cobras, very nice stuff but I don't use them much, so I gotta get rid of them lol. Good product. Expensive, but good.

 

[Squankum]

Just had some fun with my 10 inch Cobra in the junkyard the other day (hmm, that sounds vaguely dirty...) Exceeded my expectations. Removed a bumper bolt, having not brought an 18mm socket with me. Really didn't expect it to work. But it did. On the other hand, not a car that has been exposed to salt.

It was also my first experience with the "ratcheting" effect I'd seen in a Knipex video,where, once you get the size dialed in on on the jaws, youcan relax your hand a little between cranks on the bolt head, and tighten, quite rhythymically. Usually, I don't use these things for, er, nuts and bolts.

And had a thought about handles: my Knipex dypes have handles that might be "dipped", or, what you think of as dip: red, smooth, and slippery. But my Cobras, non-comfort-grip, have something that's pebbly and grippy. Both are probably sleeve that was slipped on and heated, but... don't think of a Channellock type slippery.

 

[Monte]

yeah Cobra´s are nice

 

[Sh1thead]

I keep my 16" versions in my top drawer cause i use them so ofte.