How to Choose and Use Pliers | This Old House
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2014
- This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey shows off his favorite tools for gripping, twisting, cutting and pulling.
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How to Choose and Use Pliers | This Old House
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If my father ever saw me using pliers on a hex nut, I would get a slap on the back of the head.
It's pretty common with plumbers and electricians though partly because they want to carry less and a lot of what they do doesn't show. When it does show some will use a toothless tool then and only then like on exposed chrome fixtures.
Even then some will just put boots on their pliers or a rag on the fixture.
I learned about the 3 corner bit from your videos. Thanks
You forgot the other use of linemen pliers, it's a hammer
Thats an adjustible wrench thats only use is as a hammer
Pretty sure you got that backwards. It's a hammer which doubles as pliers
Those fence pliers are handy when doing fence. They have a wire cutter, a hammer, and have a nice hook there or the spike for pulling out fence spikes or staples. Same for starting ones without busting your thumb.
Richard is such a plumber, he called the terminal a fitting. :)
Amazing ingenuity by people over the years.
thank you people for giving such important info. about pliers.Tell me about the plier that you had shown at 1:30 , how its jaws run parallel to each other and how can i have this in my tool kit.
This show has changed so much since it began, but I guess now this sort of thing is needed.
Awesome video, thank you!
Hi guys- I thought it would be worth it to mention that the Channellock Tongue and Groove pliers are designed with 90 degree teeth so they will grip in both directions. Also, the v jaws you show are designed with round stock in mind. You have more points of contact on round stock and tubing.
Sure they will, but the force required to keep the jaws tight on the work is so much higher in the other direction as to make them useless when doing real work. Always make the movable jaw apply force toward the fixed jaw and the only way to do that is to use them properly. I've seen extremly strong people unable to trun a pipe, nut or bolt while using tongue and groove pliers backwards and my weak, old, arthritic hands easily turn the same thing they were working on simply because I turned the pliers over and used them properly.
Maybe for clearance in a pinch one could use them the wrong way around or just after breaking the right fitting...
But yes, in general, use them the right way around...although I'll flip them if it helps get it off quicker after I crack it loose...but not loose enough to turn by hand...
The one that Richard pointed out as for aviation can also be used in the racing world.
For those who don't know - It's for installing safety wire, specifically.
Or anywhere you need to twist small gauge wires together.
Very helpful. I was expecting a bit more about slips joint pliers
That's right
Talking about tightening/loosening nuts and there is one spanner/wrench on the whole table?
I have a cresent two tool kit water pump slip joint pliers USA made vise grips USA made 10" with wire cutters
awesome vid, have you guys checked out the knipex cobras or pliers wrenches,? cuz they are sick!
True , bought a few Knipex for my needs & threw the crap pliers out i"d accumalated over 30 years & never looked back , great tools....................
I don't recommend making a habit of turning nuts or bolts with pliers
desertdispatch well no one does but you can if you don’t have anything else
You said a mouthful.
I inherited three relatives tools and know nothing about the gripping. etc. Thank you!
These are made more for holding things than tightening. We call em "nut rounders" and the craftsman's are "professional nut rounders"
Only type of these pliers any good for nuts are the Knipex "Raptor" & pliers-wrench :]
Nut rounders and professional nut rounders. That's beautiful!
General maintenance guys are notorious for using channelocks to loosen or tighten chromed brass like on commercial plumbing fixtures. They just gall it all up, looks like complete crap after. Thanks guys.
Actually in between those two we have the well rounded rounders...
At the very end (the 4:06 mark) the pliers he says are "for aviation"...are not just for aviation! I used those quite a bit on armored vehicles in the military. Those are called "Lacing Pliers"!!
If anyone's having trouble finding lacing pliers, they're more commonly called lockwire pliers or safety wire pliers. You want the ones from Milbar. Snap-On as well, but they're just rebranded Milbars.
If anyone's having trouble finding lacing pliers, they're more commonly called lockwire pliers or safety wire pliers. You want the ones from Milbar. Snap-On as well, but they're just rebranded Milbars.
This guy really knows his tools, thanks a lot.
Channel Locks are a brand. They're called arc joint pliers.
The side of me that works on cars is cringing at the concept of using a proper wrench as a solution to a "seized" nut when it should have been your first tool to use on it in the first place...
These ATOH guys and girls r all awesome. I hope they can all come back after the virus and be back to normal. Some nice people lost jobs
3:31 "Perfect, nice and flush" hahaha brah if i stepped on that with my bare foot I'd be bleeding
A girl I dated cut a live electric line with my best pair of nippers. LOUD POP burned a hole in the nippers!!!
She's long gone but man I miss those nippers. 😁👍👍
The lockwire pliers are used anywhere you don't want a nut to back off.
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Electrician here and never needed a pair of linemans. They just weaken the copper if used for stripping and in Finland we use Wago's quick connectors for wires. Wirenuts disappeared a long time ago.
in the us wirenuts are still common
I love the whole," oh this is what we use in Europe, see we're so more civilized because of it", yet its probably made of the cheapest plastic and lousiest metal that strips with 2 solid number 12's put in it.
@@juniormint3136 Didn't say that wirenuts don't work. I just said what we use here.
Linemans pliers are not designed to "strip" wire. We have many different wire stripping pliers, just depends on the size of wire you work with what is in your pouch/bag/box. I keep linemans and two different sizes of strippers, plus the standby utility knife for big wire.
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Those Stanley fatmax push button grips are total trash, any decent amount of pressure they just slip loose.
These videos could use an audio level boost.
hansonsux seems like your ears could use a cleaning.
I use vise grips more than any of the pliers.
They are also directional for best grip.
Never use pliers on bolts and nuts!
who uses pliers for tightening nuts really. you spin it by hand the use an adjustable cresent or sockets. come on
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No sockets when doing plumbing
No crescent wrenches EVER. their only use is as a hammer
Pliers Wrench is the only acceptable pair of pliers to use on nuts or blots
Ok..now I;m thinking about spending money on automatic pliers as if a bucket full of pliers sitting in my garage is not enough
Only came to check comments stating Richard knows nothing about pliers.
Those are not needle nose pliers.
I don't get it, you start off with pliers on a nut, then say they're no good for that you prefer these other pliers instead, but then you demonstrate the second set on a pipe, a completely different use case. At least compare apples with apples.
Anyone who suggests using pliers on nuts is to be discredited immediately. Last resort tool only.
Slip-Joint Pliers are about the most useless tool there is.
You should have told people NOT to use grooved pliers on nuts, pipe etc. Poor video 😢 Show the proper tool.
adjustable open end wrench? you mean hammer, because thats all that peice of shit is good for
Cheap crap pliers. Go with Knipex!
@Nintendo Vs Gaming Channellock and Klein don't manufacture pliers wrenches, only water pump pliers. Different style of pliers. Pliers wrenches jaws are opening parallel to each other (no pivot point) and the jaws are smooth just like they are on open end wrenches. A Knipex pliers wrench is a must have in every tool box. It's like an adjustable open end wrench, but much better (ratcheting effect and they don't alter the adjustment for themself). There are other manufacturers which make pliers wrenches, but they are mostly more expensive (Gedore, Stahlwille) or the quality is not so good (Wiha). Size adjustment on the Wiha ones is a pain in the aXX.
I don't recommend using water pump pliers on nuts, you'll always scratch them. But if the nut is rounded or rusted so much a normal open end wrench no longer fits, I would use water pump pliers.
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During my vocational education I was told to use the proper tool for the work, it makes your work easier and the work is of better quality (the finish is part of the quality too!).
Those weren't needle nose pliers.