Unconventional uses of a Knipex Pliers Wrench

yes, only 25 quid, goes in my bike tools kit for longer trips

https://www.primetools.co.uk/product/knipex-87-00-100-cobra-hightech-mini-water-pump-pliers-xs-100mm/

Those are the cobras tho, not the pliers wrench. Which are even more:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/KNIPEX-Pliers-Wrench-Chrome-Plated-Continuously/dp/B09DJVNNND/ref=asc_df_B09DJVNNND/?

The cobras are the best available pipe wrench, but they don’t have smooth jaws or a parallel action like the pliers wrench.

Tbh, I think I might treat myself so the little double pack I posted on the last page at Christmas.

good point. I still enjoy them.

Horses for courses.

I had some NOS 600 toeclip pedals in need of adjustment, and had to crack a super-tight locknut which was chrome plated and only about 2.5mm deep. Any other tool would have scarred it, I'd swear blind.

I have a second one now, so I'm going to grind one down and see how it goes as an adjustable cone wrench.

Wouldn't even consider this notion with a normal shifter. And - there's a chance it'll work better than proper cone wrenches!

adjustable cone wrench.

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Will report back. I have to get around to trying this - it's been percolating away ever since that win with the pedal, and tickling my brain every time I had to put too much force through an inevitably sloppy cone wrench and dented it.

Wonder how fast I can go with the grinding without annealing it... Better err on the side of caution.

Should I just grind it on one side, for clearance? I guess I make the strong side point in the undo direction.

Oh they are just screaming to get lost.

I he a quick look online, that duel XS set is available here for $307 (£181), I’ll buy a set in the UK this Christmas (if I remember).

At that price, they are screaming to be kept under lock and key. Lol.

Don't fancy a third pair with modified extra wide jaws for pulling the dings out of rims?

Sounds like a lot of trouble for something that iffy...

Carbon all the things anyway. Aluminium is obsolete for rims

I've dinged a carbon rim, was a long walk home.

Sure, and you're not bending that straight again either.

But I bet it took an arseload more force to do that than would've finished an ally rim. Unless maybe it was because your tyre got deflated?

I think was a lack of tyre pressure TBH. Did it on a 1” concrete lip.

Which is the preferred set?

https://www.knipex.com/products/tool-kits/mini-pliers-sets-in-belt-tool-pouch/mini-pliers-sets-belt-tool-pouch/002072V04

Or

https://www.knipex.com/products/tool-kits/mini-pliers-set-xs-in-belt-tool-pouch/mini-pliers-set-xs-belt-tool-pouch/002072V04XS

It’s absolute pocketability vs a more usable tool.

But even with that comparison, sometimes the smallest tool is the most practical. I’d say get the bigger ones if you don’t own anything like them already. The xs ones are really handy as very carryable, “need to fit into a tight space” tool, but that would be a supplement to my normal ones.

100% the longer ones based on what I use my shite ones for. Those adjustable side cutters look like fucking weapons. I’d REALLY watch your fingers with those because they’re going to be able to snip through an M6 bolt or bigger with little effort 👍

I have a set of their compact bolt cutters and the large side cutters. The bolt cutters have utterly horrifying amount of power.

I have a pair of their wire rope cutters, which absolutely shit on any cable cutters I've ever used. Razor sharp, perfect cuts, amazing for brake and gear housings.
In fact, everything they make is damn good. I put some Cutix blades in a very cheap sliding craft knife, and its horrifyingly sharp now. I don't think I've even changed the blade in 3 months.

Use case comes into it- I put the XS smooth jawed ones in my life vest pocket to use to undo things on the dingy which are too tight for fingers alone.

Oh yeah, here's the other killer app for these

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Used mine yesterday to press in and out the shock mount hardware on an old Monarch that had seized into the bushings

Which model would be considered a good all rounder for house and bike stuff? Pliers, cutters and wrench?

None of these are cutters and anything that works as cutters will not be a good wrench. For an allrounder set of Knipex pliers wrench I would go for the 180mm

Ta