The "high force" pliers at 5:45 are sold as Channelock's Nutbuster.

I've got my grandfather's original first gen pair of Champion Dearment 420 channellocks from 1933 and they still work great. I've also got the 16" and a pair of p Those larger parrot heads. They work fine when I've used them, but I have noticed the same issue with those V groove parrot heads. Yes the Dearment family who still owns the company today was the originator of this design, they became known for their Channellock pliers and took it as the new name for their company around 1955. Btw they do carry a lifetime warranty , but they will not warranty them if you try to sharpen the blade / anvils or the teeth.

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

That is good to hear about their warranty and of course if you modify the tool it would void the warranty and that's completely normal and acceptable. As far as I know Craftsman was the only company that had a effectively unlimited condition warranty. My experience with Craftsman at Sears and what is such a shame now is the fact that rather than trying to get them to replace an abused tool I would just walk in and ask if it's within the realm of their warranty and they would say absolutely and for some reason they would track and ring up all the tools they replace I think as a sales tool to show you how much money the warranty has saved you and why you need to buy more Craftsman tools. Just think Sears could have spun off Craftsman and opened independent tool stores and they would have been the Harbor Freight.

The Utica pliers was made by a company located in Utica, NY. They made pretty good tools.

@FERRAMENTASTOOLS

3 жыл бұрын

Interessante a pronúncia!!!! Gostei, em português então a pronúncia para quem lê em português seria mais ou menos assim: IU-TI- kÃ

@jopalo31675

2 жыл бұрын

I have some old ones.

I loved the channel lock branded pliers but when a guy at work was using the Doyle's from harbor freight and told me they worked the same and felt the same I quit buying channel lock brand and bought into Doyle and now I have a few pairs of their pliers and I can't notice a difference other than the handle color.. and actually the Doyle 20 inch pliers that I have, seem to work alot better than the channel lock 480s (20inch) pliers that I have.. of course I will keep using my channel lock brand 410s and some others but I carry Doyle's everyday and I beat the crap outta them and they always work.. and they are lifetime guaranteed so thats a plus... people say that channel lock brand pliers are also but I've never been able to return a pair of channel locks back.. ill stick with the Doyle's and be happy paying for half of what the other brands cost..

I enjoy all your in depth videos Bro

Love my channel locks. I owned a few husky sets years back and they rusted out within a month. I started buying up channel locks and I’ve owed them for around 5 years now and no rust!

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

They can still rest but around 10 years ago they start plastic cutting their tools and that helped a lot also higher grades of Steel do not rust as badly as low-grade mild steel does it's one way to tell if you are dealing with that Quality Steel is the fact that it just doesn't get the cancerous flaky rust like cast iron & mild Steel

The jaws on a pair of Channel-lock tongue and groove pliers hit the serrations on water pump clamp nuts perfectly, the teeth mesh mechanically and the tip of the handles fit through the hole in the center of the nuts hence the name water pump pliers. Catus, I did a comparison of the newer GL series to the Knipex Alligators. I’ve used them a bunch around the plant and while they don’t look as stout as the old 400 series, they hold up just fine

Eu amo essas ferramentas!!!! Fã numero um do Brasil!

Love this, very informative!

Awesome tool review. Just want to defend the griplock channellock as they work perfectly for our pipes in New zealand, but in saying that, our closest standard pipe size at 20mm is just slightly larger than your 3/4". Just a note for any kiwis or Aussies watching this vid. Keep up the great content.

@richardbates2367

Жыл бұрын

I know several people that use the knipex water pump locking pliers that don't seem to know about the channel lock brand grip lock pliers..

@richardbates2367

Жыл бұрын

My dad has a very large set like the craftsman tongue and groove pliers you showed.

I luv my Channellock model #420 Pliers' I use them Daily at work I keep them in my back pocket. An I also use at home. 💪🇺🇸

Love my Channellocks. Great Review. Ty.

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment

I have about 3 sets of the craftsman pliers because I loved the first set so much, I made up excuses to buy more. They were simply a better channel lock. It's too bad they didn't make more variety of tongue and groove.

..I looked at the Doyles and they looked good, but they seem overpriced for Chicom pliers, and I would feel shitty buying them when for just a few more bucks I can buy Channelocks and support the American economy...not that much price difference. Not like the huge price difference for, say, Snap-On, Mac, etc.....Now, that being said, I do have Knipex Alligator and Cobra pliers as well as Channelocks, pricey but overall better than the Channelocks, not USA made but German, somehow that doesn't bother me as much as buying Chicom....

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Harbor Freight really is experimenting with higher price and better quality tools I wouldn't be surprised if these flyers weren't made by Channellock. And German tools are generally equivalent to US tools very expensive high-end German tools are easily as good as any of the best American tools

Cool video. I always thought it was 'you-ti-kaa' like Utica NY. On the old US companies Alloy Artifacts is a really good source and they have a big collection of tools and photos to reference. Might help you identify some odd ones you find.

Jeez Catus can you get at least a few channel locks before you talk about them. Lol nice collection. Great review.

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Smooth jaws for working on plumbing fixtures without scratching the finish

Channel lock brand pliers is my preferred brand of pliers..

I use my GL grip lock channel locks on nuts and bolts.. thats all that I've found they work on.. I don't use them to loosen up really tight bolts because they will strip the bolt or nuts but I will use them when I have to tighten a nut and bolt.. I use the grip locks to hold the bolt and a wrench to tighten the nut.. I just use them to hold the bolt in place and let the wrench or socket do the work..

Super helpful! Thanks!

Love the 410 my best pliers

I’ve used my own (and my father’s) channel locks for the last 28 years. His 2 pair have to be close to 50 yrs old now. Just replaced them with a new 8 piece group. Testament to USA build quality.

when to use 422 vs GL10? also vs knipex's jaw design only??

Is the store Menards!??! congratz on 3000!! I was one of the first 100 =)

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the comment you are one of the original subscribers

@Toyotas_n__Tools

5 жыл бұрын

@@CatusMaximus =) a lot of my money has been spent from watching your video's! Btw were you a shop teacher? My HS didnt have shop but we had a engineering lab with a CNC, pneumatics, electrical test board with a bunch of switches n things, a video lab, and then also a plastic injection mold machine!! My school opened in 2004-2005 school year, they spent 250k on the astro turf field so actual education classes got a boost in the budget for those things. I did miss the wood and metal in the old middle school. The rule of being able to go back into the shop from the main classroom was knowing the names of all the tools and machines.

Great review! Now I know which Channellocks to get!

I bought one of every Doyle for the truck tool box (due to a recommendation you made in a past video), I'll put them against the channel locks any day, just wish they had the variety of channel lock. Love your vids!

@twiz8789

6 жыл бұрын

For what you are using them for Im sure they are fine. Im a plumber by trade and I can promise you they will not hold up. Ive had my ChannelLocks for over 30 years and use them nearly every day

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

I'll do a quick review and comparison of Doyle versus channel lock. Doyle's are about half the price and about 60% to 70% the build quality they're reasonable for what Harbor Freight charges but obviously are not a strong as an equivalent sized Channellock.

@twiz8789

6 жыл бұрын

Catus Maximus For the average guy the Doyles is just fine. For me, I would be quite upset with myself if I was out on a call an hour away from the shop and have a tool fail because I was trying to save a couple bucks

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

CJ5 you make an excellent point there is different economics involve when you're just a weekend warrior versus and on-site professional it is much easier to justify higher quality and more expensive tools simply for the fact that if a doyle were to break on-site you would lose a lot of money running around getting replacement pliers just to finish the job versus just spending another 20 bucks to get a set that would not have broken in the first place.

@twiz8789

6 жыл бұрын

Catus Maximus I've used all different brands, and my experience is that they don't grip the pipe properly, kinda like the crappy pair next to the 460s did on the pipe or the handle is opened too much, hard to explain but I hope you get what I'm saying, where the Channellocks seem to be set so you can get a good squeeze on the pipe. I am very curious about the Doyles in that aspect. I am just gonna have to grab a couple pairs this Friday and throw them in my box and put em thru the wringer. I'll get back to ya on how they worked because I'm very curious now...especially after seeing the 20" Doyle review

Where is a good spot to buy used tools like those channellock 460's you got?

The ones next to the 19" (at 4:08) are junk. The style on the far right (at 3:07) and the 460s I have used nearly every day for 30 plus years and I swear by them. The smooth jaw I use on chrome nuts, say on commercial urinals and toilets. They have loosened and tightened more threaded pipe than you could imagine lol. All mine are stamped and don't have the laser etching. I have used all different types of slip joints, and in my opinion, ChannelLocks work, for me, the best. Great video

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment. Yes indeed channel locks really are pretty durable for the Long Haul. The smooth Jaws are handy for not damaging fasteners and are much easier to use than adjustable wrench when you don't need lots of torque

@MintStiles

5 жыл бұрын

They work better for nuts and bolts. Good explanation on how the common sizes is bad for pipes, the sizing is very unfortunate.

@paintball130

5 жыл бұрын

You're 100% right twiz. When it comes to getting down and dirty and actually doing some work, channellocks are just great at what they do.

@jeffb8437

5 жыл бұрын

Knipex will change your world

Best mechanic I know says Channellock and Klein make the best pliers

Would that be a set of pliers or a pair of pliers

i would consider asking channel lock if maybe the 90 degree pliers is defective because it basically looks like a jaw misalignment

Good video!

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good video! USA USA USA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

440 does the job for every plier in the video

I know they don’t make it anymore but they are definitely still around… Look up the older craftsman branded robopliers

I have any number of channel lock pliers and I got to say almost every last one of them but maybe two pairs out of about 20 all when you try to get them in that right position don't seem to want to go it seems like something's bent on the inside of the tool somewhere and it looks perfectly fine. That is what is extremely annoying about channel locks. And I've used other people's channel locks that have that same thing going on so it's not just me.

What do you think of the old Diamond pliers

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Diamond Calk and Horseshoe company was a good company and they made high quality products I'm always happy to find an old Diamond Tool

Channellock pliers are the BEST.

They make a GL12 GL10 and GL6 which is the model next to the big 19incher

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah those are not my favorite pliers

Toolbox tour?

The push button adjustment is nicer to use but dont handle dirt/abuse nearly as well as the tounge type.

No knipex?

I've got most of them too, including the model they call "Big Azz" (480) which are 20". Actually I don't need that big sized pliers, but it's nice to have it...as a tool addict... Model 410 is actually not for pipe. It's designed to operate rusted and rounded nuts and bolts. That's why Channellock calls them "nutbuster". I dislike the last design too. You should try the Knipex Cobras. They''ve got much more steps, so you can compensate that problem with the pipe.

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I love the large size pliers as well. One thing to remember is often times you can use too large of a tool to do smaller size work but if you have too small of a tool you cannot do larger size work at all. I realize now that they are advertised as nut busting pliers but they work so well on pipe I don't want to damage the teeth using them on Bolts, Plus I have a variety of other methods and tools to remove fasteners.

@Marcel_Germann

6 жыл бұрын

If nothing helps, a nut splitter will do it: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Mutternsprenger_0610.jpg If you're using this tool only the nut will be destroyed, the screw thread of the fastener will remain intact.

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed I even have one of those somewhere but to tell you the truth I have never used it or maybe once most times the nuts are in places where such a huge tool just doesn't fit. The best nut splitter I've ever used is a Dremel with a small cut off wheel and a chisel

@Marcel_Germann

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's the alternative. But you'll have to be careful not to ruin the threads. If you're ruining the thread of a threaded stud on an engine this will become very expensive or painful to replace or repair it.

I think the nice Craftsman is from Wilde, which is still in business.

@dylanbland5993

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Wilde makes good pliers. Not knipex good, but good.

@pt4242

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, the craftsman channels have WF for Western Forge... Totally different animal.

Not being picky but "Utica" is pronounced......"You-Tik-Ah".....not "You-Teek-Ah"......lol....just a heads up ;) I was raised around Syracuse, NY.....just west of Utica.......nice job btw ! I'm loading up a new toolbox and I'm going all Channel Lock for my pliers & cutters. USA made, and for the money, I don't think you can beat em'

Yippity yip yip. I dun dern diddly doo dun dern dun diddled my fiddle. Yeehaw! Yippee yippity yipty doodaw. Yippeeyayo.

if you could only have one, which one would be the "All Purpose" ??

@CatusMaximus

5 жыл бұрын

Larger toothed straight jaw, maybe not the huge ones.

@maxpulido

Жыл бұрын

Smallest one will get used, biggest ones will get looked at.

Sorry wish I could have made that sound out better utica the I is just like a soft I that's more like an a that ih sound its hard to explain a pronunciation in writing I could be thinking one way and you read it however but if you said it fast without a pause in the tica.i probably should have just never tried to say it's pronounced differently either one is close hahah.but i may be wrong or in reality who actually cares? it's a native American Iroquois word they are the only ones that would really laugh, I'm probably wrong, Anyway thanks for listening to your viewers comments. I love channel locks they are very versatile in many different applications I've used them for irrigation professionally doing valves ,for getting rounded bolts or just holding things and they are one of my favorite pliers I own a variety of their other pliers too I want some others but there's so many it can get out of hand hahah.

@CatusMaximus

6 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed there is an unbelievable variety of hand tools you could probably have a thousand different adjustable wrenches from just professional manufacturers alone

A very small amount of goof off on a paper towel (not directly on the the plastic) cleans the handles right up. They will look almost brand new.

Nutbuster, parrot nose one's grip so damn good.

Which pair make the best murder weapon?

I love how Channellock has this amazing bite , knipex slips and I prefer channellocks. Not spending 3 times as much because big youtubers get free tools to advertise their tools

@KimballPrecision

4 жыл бұрын

I usually prefer USA made tools, but most of what knipex makes is considerably better. Like the pliers wrench, nothing compares in the category, but you also pay for it by a factor of 2. But for the best, paying 50$ isn't that bad if you use it daily.

@AmericanHandgunner44

4 жыл бұрын

Idk how you are getting knipex to slip. I can get things considerably tighter with cobras than I can with channel lock. I’ve broken loose many things with knipex my channel locks would slip on. Namely on round surfaces. My knipex have actually saved several brake jobs that wrenches stripped the rusty bleeder or brake line fitting. The cobras were able to dig in and get it loose. Same thing with removing wires on a starter where the stud was spinning I was able to hold the stud with my knipex and loosen the nut with a wrench

@Seveneleven44

4 жыл бұрын

MadeInUSA Reviews huh? Channellock makes a nice set of pliers that will get the job done. Knipex pliers are better in every way, except price. I’d encourage you to provide proof refuting what I just said.

@ronfox5519

3 жыл бұрын

Knipex teeth will last way longer. Work better on hard materials like bolts. And they do it without being as sharp. Sharp teeth tear the hell out of anything soft.

My grandpa has a 3’ long set of tongue and groove plier lol no shit

Meu sonho de consumo e o alicate universal pena não poder comprar.

My favorite young and grove are the best channellock

Yeah corona virus. I’m watching a bloke talk about pliers 😂

I know this is really late lol but I’m from around Utica, it’s pronounced (you-dih-cuh) around here. I know that’s a poor attempt but there ya go…haha

Yeah that warranty isn't exclusive to your store. Lowes will do the same.

You - t - ka ...omg!

Utica is pronounced ( you•ti•ka) as in Utica, N.Y. I stopped buying Craftsman when the warranty changed.

Channel locks does not stand up to Knipex they is just a better more quality made tool. You can see it when you have them in your front of you you can feel it in the weight of them and feel it in the operation of them

You-tik-uh

Knipex: im about to end this mans whole career

Those Craftsman were made by Western Forge. WF recently closed. It’s really sad.

RIP Sears, soon to go. Went to a huge Sears store closing. Like a funeral for an old friend. Damn depressing. Thanks Costco and Lowes. Anyway, if you ain't got 2 pair of 16-1/2" Channel locks in your tool box, you are not doing much in life mechanically.

Knipex bether more quality and more biutiful.

@peanutschatzie4129

5 жыл бұрын

Americo Alexandre novo Cadilhe and far more costly in the doll hair department

@johnp556

4 жыл бұрын

4x the price. Channel locks work just as well and last longer.

The pipe pliers look like a parrots beak.

You broke channel locks. Tsk tsk 🤨

thes are just junk always binding and corroding together

@jacobsebastien3910

4 жыл бұрын

You must not use them enough, I use my Channellock model #420 Daily at work keep them in my back pocket. An I use them at work Never any problems, just Grip GREAT" 💪🇺🇸