Knipex VDE High Leverage Needle Nose Pliers 145mm Reviews

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Hello. My name's Jamie. I'm a heating engineer, and this is a Tool Talk review on behalf of Expert Trades of these Knipex combination pliers.

Now, I've been using them for a few different things. And if you're a qualified electrician, you might say, well, I can do that with just my side cutters, but I'm not as good as you. So, I've been making use of these for a number of different things, and here they are.

So first of all, they do have the ability to cut cable, which has been pretty useful. They've also got some pretty good teeth here to get some good grip. I don't know if my camera's focusing on that. To get some good grips on rounded-off nuts and bolts, just to be able to get them started. They've also got some grip on the inside there, which has been quite useful.

I was struggling to get a vent pin out the other day. My pin nose pliers weren't strong enough to turn, but these got a good grip on, and because they go from quite thin to quite thick pretty quickly, they're really strong. So, I was able to get that pulled round and open that vent pin with ease really. So I was really happy about that.

You'll also see that right in the middle there, they've got this tiny little hole there, which was useful for when I was doing some twin and earth to strip the cable, and then I can get it in between that and bend it around so I could get the bend on it to get a good grip on the terminal. So, that was pretty useful.

They've also got a really good grip. Good ergonomically designed grip. And they've obviously got the obvious things like they're insulated to a thousand volts and all that kind of stuff. So, quite a good multiuse tool. Yeah. Really happy with it. It's very smooth when I open and close it, which is always good as well.

So that's it really. They're a Knipex product, so you expect quality, but they definitely have come with quality. So I'm really happy with it. So, that's the Knipex combination pliers. My name's Jamie, and this has been a Tool Talk review. Thank you for watching the video. See you in a bit.

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Hello, I'm Martyn. This is my review of the Knipex Snipe Nose Pliers, which I've been trialling for couple or three weeks now. Very, very small as you can see, they fit in your hand quite nicely. I mean in comparison to my normal long nose pliers, you can see they're sort of probably half the size, if that. That said though, they're extremely, extremely... Found them to be extremely useful tool really.

Got a cutting blade there. I mean this is a 2.5 cable this, sort of cuts through that fairly easy really. Can use it for stripping as well obviously if you want to. No problems sort of pulling back cable. Got this little sort of knock out or nudge in it there is part of it for sort of gripping hold of cords or whatever and pulling them. It's doing an easy job of stripping the cable as well. They are quite good, it's just me being a little bit light handed there really. Like I say, you can use that then for bending the cords over with or whatever. It's really, really, really good tool.

Sort of if you get yourself in a bit of a pickle, you can't quite reach something inside a consumer unit, they're perfect for that really. Just sort of you got a wire at the top, you just need to sort of get that into space where it's a bit of a tight space, absolutely perfect for it. I was really, really surprised to be honest with just how good they were. I thought that my normal sort of long nose pliers would be more than sufficient really, but these really are very, very handy. Like I say, because they are quite a lot smaller, they are quite easy to fit into small gaps and stuff like that.

That cutting blade is really sharp. I've cut faceplate screws and bits like that with it as well. Yeah, I'm really, really impressed. Would definitely recommend them. Thank you.

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Hi guys, Steve here, or Spud the sparky, I've been asked by Expert Trades, part of their TOOL TALK group, to review these KNIPEX. I've always known it as KNIPEX, needle nose, combination pliers. Usually, I use C.K long nose pliers, these however, have a little notch in them, which is good for doubling over. Nice sharp little cutter here, which goes through a single insulated conductor fairly easily.

You can do a multitude of things... Like you can with most other needle-nose pliers. The only negative point I've got from my perspective is they aren't very long, which my C.K ones are. Fairly robust, sturdy handles, ergonomic design. That's one of the things they've got over the other pliers I've used. They fit quite nicely into hand, got the little stoppers at the top. Stop you from touching any live parts if you are using them for pulling out live cables. Obviously not supposed to be doing that, but yeah. Nice little set of pliers. So yeah, I'm Steve or Spud the Sparky. That's one of my expert trades reviews. Thanks for listening. Cheers.