I'm just going through my plier drawer and was wondering what I am missing. I have slip joint and linemans pliers, standard and long handled, straight and bent tip needle nose pliers, crimper, wire stripper, stardard and long handled dikes and a set of straight&curved jaw/needle nose locking pliers. What am I missing? Next purchase will probably be some Knipex Cobras or Channellock Nutbusters, not sure which one yet? I'd appreciate any advice you can give me.
pliers, what am I missing?
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canuckian
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Duckbill pliers
garfunkle24
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What do you work on? That would help with recommendations.
rjohnson
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Snap ring pliers
Outlawmws
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Hose clamp pliers, Nippers, Wire forming pliers (look like needle nose with tapered round jaws) Cable/hose cutters, Battery Pliers;
and how are you setup for Vise grips in different configurations and sizes?
and how are you setup for Vise grips in different configurations and sizes?
FunkyfullWidth
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I have a pair of the hose clamp pliers with the "whip" on them. these...
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...roup_ID=675583&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog
I use them alot. Very handy, eliminates alot of swearing if your removing coolant lines and sometimes hydraulic return lines, among others. I'm sure theres other manufacturers out there, but these are the ones I have.
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...roup_ID=675583&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog
I use them alot. Very handy, eliminates alot of swearing if your removing coolant lines and sometimes hydraulic return lines, among others. I'm sure theres other manufacturers out there, but these are the ones I have.
davesnothere
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Everyone should have these, s/o or otherwise.
Hammer1963
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A simple rule for me is this: You can never have too many Vise Grip style tools.
Thanks, thats a really great idea! I have been considering picking up a pair of those Knipex mini bolt cutters and I'll look around for a pair of duck bill and hose clamp pliers. Thanks again, for your advice.
metaleltr
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No these are for spring types hose clamps used on late model cars, not the worm drive jubilee clip style. The spring type have ears which are squeezed together by the cable style pliers.
Hey Outlaw, can you post a picture of the wire forming pliers? I'm not familiar with those. Thanks.
Jim C.
metaleltr
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wafrederick
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The Knipex minibolt cutters are good for cutting junk brakelines.Make sure you clean the joints out with brake clean very well.I just had my Matco tool dealer order me a pair of these on Friday.
Outlawmws
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Yep, what metaleltr posted. They come in different sizes for different purposes. from copper house wiring, to tiny ones for working on micro circuitry adn jewelery. They have been around for a long time also; the two on the right are PEXTO's, then a no me pair that are VERY old (they often made the grips taper to about a knifes edge in the early 1900's) and have a sort of rounded rectangular cross section, Utica's, another no name and last are a small set of SO's
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Yep, what metaleltr posted. They come in different sizes for different purposes. from copper house wiring, to tiny ones for working on micro circuitry adn jewelery. They have been around for a long time also; the two on the right are PEXTO's, then a no me pair that are VERY old (they often made the grips taper to about a knifes edge in the early 1900's) and have a sort of rounded rectangular cross section, Utica's, another no name and last are a small set of SO's
Thanks Outlaw. That's a nice collection. I guess I've seen them before but never really recognized what they were. I probably just thought they were needle nose pliers. I could use a pair of those for the occasional electric jobs around the house. For years I've been forming loops with a bacic set of needle nose pliers. Do you think specialized pliers make the job easier? Thanks again for posting a picture.
Jim C.
Rust
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Tooth pulling pliers..a must have.
or better yet a pair of those emergency room pliers that remove things from orifices.
or better yet a pair of those emergency room pliers that remove things from orifices.
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Outlawmws
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Definitely make the job easier, and I use them for far more than just House wiring. I used them just a few days ado when making the Hammer rack/loops I posted up in a thread that slip on the pull handle of my old Craftsman toolbox.
A couple of months ago we were leveling a slope for paves, so We made a bunch of 4" "tell tails" out of fence wire that we put on a string and ran from one snapped chalk line on a retaining wall, to another string to find high spots. just a simple tight loop in the end of a wire and cut all to 4" dangled length. if any dragged, we needed to shave more dirt...
Outlawmws
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Forceps?
cj7365
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are you just a collector? seems like if you were "missing" a set of pliers you would know which ones you needed
Rust
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sickboy motors inc.
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Robogrips!
RCStocker
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Make sure you find a good one for pulling teeth. LOL
For 50 years I have been buying plires. Everytime I find a different one that is not 3 arms and a leg in price I pick it up. A few hundrew pr later I still need one I don't have every once in a while.
You never can have enough tools. LOL
For 50 years I have been buying plires. Everytime I find a different one that is not 3 arms and a leg in price I pick it up. A few hundrew pr later I still need one I don't have every once in a while.
You never can have enough tools. LOL
Rust
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I was cursing at the saab all morning and went down to sears and bought the remote hose clamp pliers. They're made in france just like the Snap on and mayhews which makes me think they're probably all rebranded. I never thought I'd need one until I started trying to replace all the coolant hoses on a saab turbo. There is so little room to manuever in the engine bay, this tool is a livesaver. It took me longer to drive to Sears than to remove every hose that I yelled at for hours in the morning using it. Don't know how long it'll hold up long term, but I'm glad I found this thread and went and bought a pair.
Sears Item# 00947390000 | Model# 28650-998
in comparison here is the snappy model
Snap On SHCP1
Sears Item# 00947390000 | Model# 28650-998
in comparison here is the snappy model
Snap On SHCP1
KnurledNut
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hand seamers kinda fall into the plier category.
you'll probably use em if you got em.
you'll probably use em if you got em.
littletoes
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Hand seame'rs are great, if you have a bit if sheet metal work to do...and you want it FLAT.
Outlawmws
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Actually, for a lot of uses conventional hand seamers kinda ****. The compounds might be better, but I make these out of munged up nippers and scrap small angle, and they rock for tool box repair (or other sheet metal edges that get kinked/waved and need straightening.
These can apply anywhere from 2-1/2 to 5X the pressure the standard seamers can, depending on where in the jaw you are gripping but the outer edge of the munged sheet edges I'm typically straightening usually wind up deep in the jaws and see the max. in addition, you can hammer against them if you are forming a piece manually.
I use these many times a year fixing metal cabinets, tool boxes, and other sheet metal items (did some lockers not long ago, and we used them on a tool box just this past week),
These can apply anywhere from 2-1/2 to 5X the pressure the standard seamers can, depending on where in the jaw you are gripping but the outer edge of the munged sheet edges I'm typically straightening usually wind up deep in the jaws and see the max. in addition, you can hammer against them if you are forming a piece manually.
I use these many times a year fixing metal cabinets, tool boxes, and other sheet metal items (did some lockers not long ago, and we used them on a tool box just this past week),
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tradesmanschoice
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Screw pliers for rusty/damaged screws.
http://www.tradesmanschoice.com/catalog/Engineer/PZ-58.html
Best Regards,
Mark.
http://www.tradesmanschoice.com/catalog/Engineer/PZ-58.html
Best Regards,
Mark.
KnurledNut
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Nice, I'll have pick one of those up
I was using the (sort of) Knipex style pliers that came in the old Saab trunk/tool kits for those clamps
cgv69
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That's not even remotely true. Threads like this are great for learning about tools you may not have even known existed or knew about but where leery of.
Case in point, I didn't know about those hose clamp pliers shown above. Well actually I'd seen them but didn't pay much attention to them because they seemed gimmicky. Having fought with my fair share of modern hose clamps using standard slip joint pliers, I'm glad I learned that those hose clamp pliers really work.
Another one surprisingly not mentioned in this thread yet are the Knipex Plierswrench. Great tool that I didn't know I "needed" or that they existed before coming to this site.
These are handy for gripping all sorts of stuff. Love mine.