/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2444574
I prefer the American brand of pliers which was outsourced to Germany for manufacturing.

>>2437054
The people who own Knipex Cobras and the like don’t underrate them. They’re so much nicer to use than old school flat jaw channellocks for so many applications. The Alligators are solid too, it’s the slimmer handle and head and V-jaw with good heat treating that changes everything.

Still haven’t reached much of an opinion on the Raptor knockoffs or the Channie nut buster thing, time will tell. I would be down to buy a 7-1/4” Raptor if they sold one to hold nuts on the back end when driving bolts. And I prefer the pliers wrench like 80% of the time to a regular crescent wrench, then 15% I would take either, and maybe 5% the crescent wrench just fits better because there’s no room to squeeze the pliers wrench.

>>2420178
>>2420412
I have the 5” cobra and have used it like once on a coax fitting or some shit, but the 7-1/4” is way more useful. The 5” is so awkward to use.