I've had some of these in my toolbox for many years. And I worked on airplanes for 42 years I found that they don't slip like a crescent wrench should never use a crescent wrench on an aircraft :-)
im use also in aviation sheet metal workshop to squeeze AD (soft) solid flush rivets to max.5 dia :-). Some times it does not sense to prepare rivet hammer for few rivets, faster and better is to use Knipex :-). Best Regards from Poland. Pozdrowienia z Polski :-)
These are great tools, bit on the spendy side but well made and you get what you pay for. I have the 5" & 7.25" set, the 5 is a little small but I think the 7.25 and the 10" would cover just about everything anyone would need
I bought the 'medium' size (10" size) of Knipex Pliers at Home Depot (they only have that one size on display in the store). I bought one and I liked it so much that I bought a second one. Then I noticed that the handle of the tool is great for when you want to apply a lot of torque to a nut/bolt (the way an adjustable wrench would), but when you only want to apply a bit of torque, the handles are a bit too long, so I took one of the wrenches and I cut off 3" of each handle, now it's perfect. Its now like the 7.25" set that Knipex already sells.
Dude I don't think I have ever been sold on a tool so thoroughly & so quickly. Only other tool that comes close was the Milwaukee fastback folding knife with the screwdriver bit holder, but these pliers solve so many problems that drive me nuts I honestly hate that I don't already have a pair, and I've only known they exist for 7 minutes now.
Right on. Do you want to know something crazy? I just picked up that fastback with the screwdriver bit holder. I learned about it a couple of weeks ago and bought while at a plumbing supply store. So great learning about excellent tools isn’t it👍
They’re good for pipes, and a I also like that the alloy used allows a slim tool, with jaws that can fit between parts that normally are hard to get to without buying an expensive, individual size, thin head wrench.
Excelente vídeo cara. Eu amo essa ferramenta. Versátil, leve e extremamente ergonômica. Eu tenho uma dessa e comprovo sua praticidade. Obrigado pelo vídeo interativo, de fato é melhor do que um "MONKEY WRENCH".
I got to use one for a project one time and have wanted it ever since.... I'm just a poor boy... Lol and have a hard time finding them... If my local store had them I probably would have had a few by now
A monkey wrench here is a heavy duty beast with teeth that can grip on a round pipe / bar. And we call an adjustable wrench a shifter. Going to get some Knipex pliers as soon as the budget permits, they are a bit pricey but money well spent it seems.
Are you in the UK or Australia? Down under we call an adjustable wrench a shifter, but most of our words are inherited from the UK so I'm guessing it's the same there too.
See per their rep at a tool expo... German company so German pronunciation is Kaneepex. However I was pronouncing them Nypex. Thought is sounds cooler and since we pronounce Volkswagen wrong anyway do we really have to since in English language the “k” is silent before an “n”
In my aprintership I had a smal tool set on my own while working with my master. Thatfor was the idea to cover a big range with not so much to carry. The set had the midsice of this and the kobra and the electrisian multi pliers and the multy e-screwdriver from Wiha and in the toolcheck pro from Wera
please advise, if the budget is limited and you can only choose one, for bicycle repair and can be taken for backpacking, which size should you choose?
Get the 7.25" size. I find the handles on the 10" set are just a bit too long for most situations, and the 5" version is just a baby and can only work on the smallest of nuts/bolts.
Good attitude and presentation. One small piece of advise, if you don't mind. If your video title mentioned "Knipex Plier wrench" or at least "Knipex" you'd get more views.
@@jeremygoertzSo the pliers lock on and you don't have to squeeze the handles, just push one of them. Does it also work if you're pushing the other handle in the other direction?
Hello, just wanted to let you know that there’s a company that advertise theses pliers on Facebook with a portion of your one of your video with you showing these pliers... I can send you a screenshot by email or Facebook.
Agree, it is fine tool for lighter stuff and quick working. But a bit weaker and more bulky than good old screw adjustible french wrench where you can put a one or two meter pipe on it and grab it really hard without breaking it if you are trying to unscrew some large 50mm radiator rusted screw or similar stuff :D These will bend at some point. Also the Knipex price is a bit higher. Usually you can buy multiple "crescent wrenches" for a price of one of these :) Knipex wire cutters and many precision pliers are arso very nice tools. And Cobra pliers for pipes with nice sharp teeth that won't get dull in years.
@@bornwithawoodenleg Forgive me, I mod for a number of tool channels and have never seen your name. Not something I'd forget. Using myself as an example, my plier wrenches are at least a decade old. Likely more; can't really recall when I bought them. If you read the comments here, the tool guys all own Knipex pliers. As this was new to you, then you are most certainly not in the tool community, which begs the question as to why you decided to respond to my comment. This could have gone so differently. Apparently, the host of this channel also has a much bigger knife making channel and this is his personal space. Fair enough. Had he said that, everything would have been clear. But that's not what he did, after showing us his brand spankin' new plier wrenches and talking to us as if we're ignorant as to the tool and its advantages, when it's brutally obvious that it's pretty new to him.
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I've had some of these in my toolbox for many years. And I worked on airplanes for 42 years I found that they don't slip like a crescent wrench should never use a crescent wrench on an aircraft :-)
im use also in aviation sheet metal workshop to squeeze AD (soft) solid flush rivets to max.5 dia :-). Some times it does not sense to prepare rivet hammer for few rivets, faster and better is to use Knipex :-). Best Regards from Poland. Pozdrowienia z Polski :-)
Great for straightening sheet metal as well. Worked up to 1.5mm aluminium for me without any problems.
True, good point! Straightening wire, is another use I get often from these!!
These are great tools, bit on the spendy side but well made and you get what you pay for. I have the 5" & 7.25" set, the 5 is a little small but I think the 7.25 and the 10" would cover just about everything anyone would need
You are so right about these. I use them all the time.
I'm a pipefitter and love my knipex cobras! Great video, I'm always looking for an excuse to buy more tools...lol 👍
Yes! I remember these from one of your SLL build vids. I’ve been keeping my eyes on a set of these. Just have to save my 💵
Thanks for the size recommendation at the end.. Was stuck debating if to choose the 7" or the 10"..
I bought the 'medium' size (10" size) of Knipex Pliers at Home Depot (they only have that one size on display in the store). I bought one and I liked it so much that I bought a second one. Then I noticed that the handle of the tool is great for when you want to apply a lot of torque to a nut/bolt (the way an adjustable wrench would), but when you only want to apply a bit of torque, the handles are a bit too long, so I took one of the wrenches and I cut off 3" of each handle, now it's perfect. Its now like the 7.25" set that Knipex already sells.
Dude I don't think I have ever been sold on a tool so thoroughly & so quickly. Only other tool that comes close was the Milwaukee fastback folding knife with the screwdriver bit holder, but these pliers solve so many problems that drive me nuts I honestly hate that I don't already have a pair, and I've only known they exist for 7 minutes now.
Right on. Do you want to know something crazy? I just picked up that fastback with the screwdriver bit holder. I learned about it a couple of weeks ago and bought while at a plumbing supply store. So great learning about excellent tools isn’t it👍
I just ordered the wrench pliers xs and cobra xs both 4 inches in length. my goal is to use both of them as slingshot and edc them.
good video! if you ever need a video idea, it would be cool to test the speed and torque vs a regular adjustable wrench.
They’re good for pipes, and a I also like that the alloy used allows a slim tool, with jaws that can fit between parts that normally are hard to get to without buying an expensive, individual size, thin head wrench.
You are thinking of a pipe wrench. Monkey wrenches are finer threaded, and have flat jaws
@@grndzro777 no, I’m not. I know what that is, I have my father’s. I didn’t mention a monkey wrench, you just did.
@@melgross Sorry about that then. It always irks me that most people don't even know what a monkey wrench is. Makes me a bit too zealous.
Excelente vídeo cara. Eu amo essa ferramenta. Versátil, leve e extremamente ergonômica. Eu tenho uma dessa e comprovo sua praticidade. Obrigado pelo vídeo interativo, de fato é melhor do que um "MONKEY WRENCH".
Thanks for your review. The one you use the most, the small one in this video..is it 180mm ?
great tool, it's the best, Sir! Great video too, many thanks! 🙂
I got to use one for a project one time and have wanted it ever since.... I'm just a poor boy... Lol and have a hard time finding them... If my local store had them I probably would have had a few by now
It’s my favorite tool in my bag
Right on! 👍
I'm a plumber and sadly not good for Al but yeah there great. You should look into bahco adjustable wrenches there the best
Good, informative review.
Thank you!
They're like an upgraded version of channel locks right?
Aha, I still have one use for my old adjustable wrenches...whenever I need a hammer and I don't want to walk to my toolbox.
You compared the opening of the jaws, with the Knipex handle in closed postiion, their jaws can open more than that, thus can do bigger nuts.
Those knipex are BOSS MAN!!!!! Now if you'll excuse me I got to pick my jaw up off the floor and grab me a pair!
Hahaha👍
I use the knipex cobras similar tool, really good, only grips I use. Ps That's how I say knipex
Good video. Excelente tools. Saludos desde argentina
Thank you!
I'm going to get the smaller one!
What size was the smaller ones you showed please.
I have that and the 5 in it’s all you need
There are two smaller sizes than your 180mm, a 125mm and a 150mm one. One of these might be a cool little addition to your on-the-go cycling toolkit.
I have the 150 and yes, it is!
There's a 100mm one now as well.
Knipex are the best
A monkey wrench here is a heavy duty beast with teeth that can grip on a round pipe / bar. And we call an adjustable wrench a shifter.
Going to get some Knipex pliers as soon as the budget permits, they are a bit pricey but money well spent it seems.
No that's called a pipe wrench.
Are you in the UK or Australia? Down under we call an adjustable wrench a shifter, but most of our words are inherited from the UK so I'm guessing it's the same there too.
What size wrench? 7-1/4”?
Thank u
Man everything they make is amazing. And "ka nipex" is how i say it 🤣
Ka ni pex is actually the correct way i called there headquarters to settle a bet 👍
@@rockstarfan886 regardless of what headquarters may say I cannot bring myself to pronounce it like that. Any word starting kn the k should be silent.
What size are the smaller one you have?
Damn it man! Every time you do a tool review like this, I feel the need to go out and immediately buy it! Haha!
#notasponsor really enjoying this short form vlog channel!
I need to get me some of there. I cannot stand regular crescent wrenches
WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THESE?!?! This would be amazing to have!!!
See per their rep at a tool expo... German company so German pronunciation is Kaneepex. However I was pronouncing them Nypex. Thought is sounds cooler and since we pronounce Volkswagen wrong anyway do we really have to since in English language the “k” is silent before an “n”
Try the 125mm - it´s awesome too!
Right on. I’ve been meaning to pick up a few more so I’ll check that size out too👍
In my aprintership I had a smal tool set on my own while working with my master. Thatfor was the idea to cover a big range with not so much to carry. The set had the midsice of this and the kobra and the electrisian multi pliers and the multy e-screwdriver from Wiha and in the toolcheck pro from Wera
please advise, if the budget is limited and you can only choose one, for bicycle repair and can be taken for backpacking, which size should you choose?
Probably a 5” or 6” I would say 👍
Get the 7.25" size. I find the handles on the 10" set are just a bit too long for most situations, and the 5" version is just a baby and can only work on the smallest of nuts/bolts.
You said knipex perfectly,I love knipex tools the cobra grips are amazing.
Atb Steve
Actually no i called there headquarters they say ka ni pex
It's Khnee-pex, the K is not silent and the I is long.
Good attitude and presentation. One small piece of advise, if you don't mind. If your video title mentioned "Knipex Plier wrench" or at least "Knipex" you'd get more views.
Thank you. I appreciate your insight. Cheers 👍
Adjustable wrench======= Shifter in Australia.
But can it build a sentry?
Could your question get any dumber?
Does it also want to lock the other way?
Not exactly sure what you mean by that….
@@jeremygoertzSo the pliers lock on and you don't have to squeeze the handles, just push one of them. Does it also work if you're pushing the other handle in the other direction?
@@1992jamo no, it slips off, the head is directional. You can use them backwards if you grip the handle firm
Your pronunciation is correct. Knipex. Here in germany they called "Armaturenzange" 🤭 Knipex is the manufacturer ✌️
Mr. Sonderbar in German, the K would be pronounced and the I sounds like a long E, so would sound closer to "Kneep-ex", right?
@@Donorcyclist not a long E more like a really really short E. Like "NIPped". So you can say Nipex "K-Nip-ex" 🤔🤷♂️
Ok taking ur word and ordered a small one 😂 well see lol
Right on! I am quite certain you are going to really enjoy having these at your disposal👍
@@jeremygoertz thx man
Hello, just wanted to let you know that there’s a company that advertise theses pliers on Facebook with a portion of your one of your video with you showing these pliers... I can send you a screenshot by email or Facebook.
Oh yeah that would be great if you would be so kind as to do that. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the heads up! 👍
Jeremy Goertz I’ve send the link on Jeremy goertz on Facebook messenger
Thank you!
Agree, it is fine tool for lighter stuff and quick working. But a bit weaker and more bulky than good old screw adjustible french wrench where you can put a one or two meter pipe on it and grab it really hard without breaking it if you are trying to unscrew some large 50mm radiator rusted screw or similar stuff :D These will bend at some point. Also the Knipex price is a bit higher. Usually you can buy multiple "crescent wrenches" for a price of one of these :)
Knipex wire cutters and many precision pliers are arso very nice tools. And Cobra pliers for pipes with nice sharp teeth that won't get dull in years.
Wranglerstar swears by these things. Says they are probably his favourite tool
I work on a ship and i learned all these tools that have an adjustable shit will always break resulting in injury..
Nope, they don’t. Maybe garbage tools but not quality ones like these.
@@jeremygoertz maybe ur right. The company buys the tools. We cant decide what brand is it.
This video came up in my feed. Who is the audience for this? Certainly not the tool community.
I'm going to give it to you straight up: this is the dumbest comment I've seen in a while.
@@jeremygoertz Who is the audience, apparently familiar with tools and their market, that hadn't heard of Knipex? The people you're educating.
@@felixf5211 me
@@bornwithawoodenleg Forgive me, I mod for a number of tool channels and have never seen your name. Not something I'd forget. Using myself as an example, my plier wrenches are at least a decade old. Likely more; can't really recall when I bought them. If you read the comments here, the tool guys all own Knipex pliers. As this was new to you, then you are most certainly not in the tool community, which begs the question as to why you decided to respond to my comment.
This could have gone so differently. Apparently, the host of this channel also has a much bigger knife making channel and this is his personal space. Fair enough. Had he said that, everything would have been clear. But that's not what he did, after showing us his brand spankin' new plier wrenches and talking to us as if we're ignorant as to the tool and its advantages, when it's brutally obvious that it's pretty new to him.
it is not nipex, it is K-nipex as in kenipex
find someone who gives a shit and tell them.
Knlpex has a hard K like in cool 😉
I know a joke about a monkey wranch.
K-NEE-pex.
Hey, I have a great idea! Let’s argue about how to pronounce an odd word on the internet!! I couldn’t think of a better way we could spend our time!
Ze Germans pronounce it Kuh-knee-pex.
Channel locks..
Suck compared to these. I agree 100%