Author Topic: Holy Pliers!  (Read 8883 times)

bogstandard

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Holy Pliers!
« on: July 11, 2009, 05:53:49 AM »
No, not another Batman saying, but a resurrection of an old post I did on another site.

I bought myself a few pairs of pliers last time I went to the market. These are a pair of long nosed electricians ones, but if you want to make the thing I am going to show you, get the ones like this, beefy around the nose, the thin scrawny ones just won't hack it.




Find something to hold the jaws apart slightly, I used a 6mm washer.




Clamp them up tight in your drilling or milling vice, and get out your rough set of drills, metric or imperial, this can be made with either, in fact buy two pairs and make one set of each.




Running down the centre line of the jaws, I started of at the tip with a 2mm, then going up in 0.5mm sizes, I ended up at 6mm.
It doesn't need to be very accurate with the distance between each hole, as long as there is the shape of each hole afterwards.
I find that these cheap pliers drill like a little tough cast iron.




Drilled and deburred, but what the hell are they used for. The next couple of pictures show it all.




For holding thin rods




To even thicker ones.



How many times have you tried to hold round bar for working on, say grinding the ends, or holding while tightening up a nut.

These cost me a squid from the market, and 15 mins of my time. Where else would you get a very useful tool at those sorts of prices.


Bogs

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Re: Holy Pliers!
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 06:00:50 AM »
Ho I do like that one John  guess what I'm going to do next week
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Thanks for showing

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Re: Holy Pliers!
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 06:07:16 AM »
The Saturday tool man is on the market today, get down there and buy a load of all types, you never know how you can easily mod them to do a specific job.


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Re: Holy Pliers!
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2009, 08:49:57 AM »
Great idea.  I'm going to have to do this one too.

Mike

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Re: Holy Pliers!
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2009, 09:35:16 AM »
These are great.. I made myself a set a while back after the first post and am always reaching for them (hint for others; dip or paint the tool handles some flashy color or heat-shrink a little colored tubing onto the handles if your shop is as messy as mine)


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Re: Holy Pliers!
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 12:30:45 PM »
These are great.. I made myself a set a while back after the first post and

........... I can`t find `em now!  :scratch:

Sigh.......  ::)

David D
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Still drilling holes... Sometimes, in the right place!

Still modifying bits of metal... Occasionally, making an improvement!