Hi there and welcome to another Friday Findings video.
Today continuing my series on tools, I'm going to tell you about my most used pair of pliers
and those are my round nose pliers.
So here I have a couple pairs of round nose pliers and these are my trusty ones that I
use all the time and they're called round nose pliers because you can see the tips,
rather than having a flat edge like chain nose, they're actually long tapered cones.
Now these pliers are just over 1/2" long and you can find many that are longer, but so
far these have worked quite well for me.
I like these because the tips are very small.
They're just over 1mm at the very tip so I can make very small loops, up to 4mm loops
here.
If I need loops that are bigger than 4mm, then I'll have to find another tool.
On this particular pair of round nose pliers, both of the jaws are like I said long, tapered
cones.
Now this tool is a variation of the round nose pliers.
The jaws are a little bit longer, about 3/4" long and they get a little bit wider at the
base, about 6mm and the other jaw is flat like a chain nose pliers and this can be nice
in helping you to grip on wire.
Also sometimes the problem with holding a piece of wire with a pair of round nose pliers
is that the round part can dent your wire so if you're holding it with these and you're
making loops around the round part, you won't be denting it with this bit because it's flat.
So those are a couple of variations.
I've also seen them with very long tips, but I've found so far that these are pretty much
all I need.
Now some round nose pliers are all in one tools.
You can see that these pliers actually have a wire cutter right in there and then you
may have seen me in videos often using, say I make this and I want to flatten it out using
this flattened part to flatten out pieces, which are grip and hold pieces.
The way you use a round nose plier is, say I wanted to make a loop, I'm just going to
hold the tip of my wire right in those round nose pliers so I can't feel any wire poking
out.
You have your wrist facing up, your palm facing up and then all you do is twist your wrist
towards you and this makes your loops and like I said, you can get very, very small
loops or you can make them with these pliers up to 4mm, much bigger and the principle is
the same on this other pair of pliers.
It works just the same way.
You can even use a pair of pliers to just make a coil by holding it in place and you
just keep twisting and like I said, the nice thing about this part that's flat on this
pair is that it won't mar your wire on the outside whereas a round jaw on the other side
might create dents and as I've mentioned many times in these videos, you can always use
a Sharpie, a 5 point Sharpie to make marks.
I often like to make loops that are 2mm, so I can find the 2mm mark on my calipers, mark
where that is on my pliers with the Sharpie and then be able to make consistent loops.
So whenever you're buying any tools, my best advice is to find something that does the
job that you want to do at the moment and get the best quality you can afford at the
time.
As you come to use your tools, you'll appreciate the better quality more and more as time goes
by.
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