What is it?
Adjustable pliers or also known as tongue-and-groove pliers, water pump pliers and arc point pliers with jaws usually in an arced shape. Who uses it and why? Adjustable pliers are used for turning and holding nuts and bolts along with gripping irregular objects and sometimes can be used to cut certain materials. Hence the name, “water pump” they are known to grip pipes. People that use these types of pliers are usually ones that have to work with pipes. What materials can they be used on? Widely known to be used on different types of pipes. These pipes vary from copper, steel, plastic and even lead. But when dealing with nuts and bolts, these pliers are used on stainless steel. How is it used? Because adjustment pliers are used for many differently shaped objects, these pliers have a self adjustment lock that you can change depending on the object just by pressing the button near the jaws, you can vary the size of the gap. All that one really needs to do is press the bottom, adjust to whatever you are gripping onto and close the bottom jaw. What are their distinctive features? Because of the arced shaped jaws, they can be adjusted to different sizes that can grip oddly shaped materials. Depending on what type of adjustable pliers you buy, they can change into 7 different positions. Also the jaws for these pliers are always parallel. Where can I buy it? https://www.channellock.com/product.aspx?zpid=342&gclid=cj0keqjwvio_brdt27qg3yx0w4wbeiqasgu3ew6zztheyw6c4v-wnjehdgyzhq98oesze1skvlsagmoaau1r8p8haqc How much does it cost? $19.69 |