Frequently Asked Questions

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What surface finishing do you provide on your pliers ?

Normal polished finish Black finished Chrome plated finish Phosphate finished Stain finished Nickel chromium finished Zinc finished Electrostatically painted

We provide the following surface finishing options

What packing types do you provide on the pliers you make ?

Plastic Hanger Card & Y-type Holder

Plastic Hanger Card & Lid

Card & Cable Tie

Double Blister

Slide Blister Card

Tray & Window Color Box

We provide the following packing types for your reference.

What handle types do you provide on your pliers ?

We provide the following handle types for your reference.

What jaw style do you provide on your pliers ?

We provide the following jaw styles for our pliers.

Round jaws Half round jaws Flat jaws

What cutting style do you provide on your pliers ?

We provide the following cutting styles for our pliers.

Cutter with bevel Cutter without bevel Scissors cutter
Center cutter Stripper

What details of cutting results of your cutting pliers ?

Symbol Type of wire Soft wire Medium hard wire Hard wire Piano wire Example Copper, Aluminum Iron wire Steel wire Hardened spring steel Tensile strength ca. N/mm2 220-250 750-800 - -

Please check with the following table.

What is the cutting edge hardness for your pliers ?

The cutting edge hardness for our water pump pliers is 38 to 42 HRc, circlip pliers is 40 to 44 HRc and the other pliers is 58 to 62 HRc.

 

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Over at Facebook, Austen messages me with a tough question: If you had to buy a set of pliers who would you buy from?

Without any brand or budget criteria, I responded with the following:

Quick answer: Felo from KC Tool or NWS from Lee Valley. Same tools, different selection and maybe availability. Lower budget? Channellock from Amazon.

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Knipex are also good. Certain Klein, and I like Proto for specific jaw styles. But if I had to pick just one, it would be NWS or Felo.

Okay, so I actually don't know which would be the best pliers, so I answered about my favorites. Since I tend to favor tools that serve me better, that kind of works, right?

Lee Valley started carrying NWS pliers a few years ago, and KC Tool has good pricing on Felo's NWS-made pliers. Our coupon code makes the pricing even better.

I do like NWS's black-finish pliers, but the chrome-finish Felo pliers I recently ordered look like they'll hold up just as good.

The bottom line is this ' if you ask me for pliers recommendation, I'll offer these NWS-pliers as my top pick. I can produce other recommendations if given more criteria.

If you want USA-made, I'd point to Channellock and Proto, maybe Wilde too. Klein for certain styles. Western Forge? Okay, but my Craftsman-branded Western Forge pliers are my least favorite.

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Knipex is usually a good bet, when it comes to European brands, but I like NWS-made pliers better.

Too bad that Irwin stopped offering their NWS-made pliers and replaced them with similarly-styled pliers made in Taiwan.

I posted about NWS vs. Knipex pliers back in , and I pretty much said the same thing then. Between those two brands, I preferred NWS, and still do.

These pliers aren't inexpensive, but they're not outlandishly expensive, either.

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If you're looking for precision pliers, Tronex are spectacular, but pricey, and Xuron are inexpensive, but still managed to be made in the USA. There are other recommended brands in between these two. Maybe that's a discussion for another post.

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