hey guys Adam Savage here in my cave with a tool tip about getting a handle
on some of the things in your shop now this is a standard pair of pliers
I like these pliers because they actually have a little bit of a spring
return on them which means just using them one-handed is a little bit easier
and pliers are like along with a hammer and a set of screwdrivers really sort of
almost the very first maker tool that many of us possess and they're fabulous
they allow you to get a really good grip on stuff for working with it they're
terrific at rounding the corners of nuts so you can't remove them anymore I joke
look pliers are one of the most basic maker tools that exists for a reason
they are basically their basic and they do a great thing they provide this sort
of mobile clamping force on multiple different sizes of things and allow you
to utilize more strength than your hands possess but what about when you have to
grab things that are that need a longer grab well that's where we get to
needlenose pliers and I'm going to talk about needlenose pliers here but that's
they're not the the overall tool tip here because I'm going to get to a
really cool tool towards the end this is a standard set of needlenose pliers
again everyone should have a set of these for extremely long grabs there's
these extended needle nose pliers and there are lots of different makers of
these and they're generally pretty serviceable almost no matter what for
the most part I rarely ever reach for these cuz this kind of long grabbing is
not often the kind I need to do I'll explain
here's a pair of needlenose pliers you might not know about this is a pair of
jewelers pliers and if you notice the radii the six different radii that make
up the jaws of these pliers allow you to do wire bending with a lot more
precision and a lot less notice it's smooth jaws so it's not going to Mar the
wire like a like a pair of pliers would and allows you to do some fairly fine
work with wire these were great with coat hanger wire and again not too
expensive worth having in your collection there are other sizes of
needle nose pliers these are sort of a small size these are long and thin like
the garfish needle nose pliers again I almost never use these really really
really almost never what I end up using are things like this Irwin's vice-grip
Neil nose vise grips these things are amazing by the way I think I've done
this before on one of my videos but this sound these pliers are often used to
make sound effects of people cocking guns and I'm here to tell you that if
your gun that sounds great in the movies but if you're gonna actually sounded
like that you should not be trying to fire it that thing will just fly apart
into many pieces these I use all the time and these are particularly great
for grabbing on to stuff and grinding it and working with it on a sander safely
because you don't want to be holding stuff with your fingertips on a sander
I've done it you don't like sending off I don't like sending off the tips of my
fingers your results may vary needle nose lockjaw needle nose vise grips are
fantastic for that but these still aren't the things that I wanted to talk
to you about today I wanted to talk to you about two pairs of extended pliers
that have been unendingly useful to me over the years the first one was
introduced to me by Jamie Hyneman and it's this this is actually a fish hook
removal tool I will find a link for these Jamie has these in his kit and
they've been part of his kit for 30 years and there's a reason you get a
huge these are really cheaply made these are stamped metal I don't think they're
very expensive at all but they provide a really impressive amount of clamping
force out at the end here and that is really really great it's for removing a
fish hook from a fish so you can imagine it's about taking a small thing from an
uncooperative subject and wrenching a hook out of them
harming them so this the clamping force here is fantastic and when you need
these you will be really pleased you spent the the small amount of dough to
get these into your collection yeah who made it's almost impossible to read this
no I will find a link you can you can find yourselves one of these the other
pair of extended grabbers that have become super important to me over the
years are these now I first came across a set of these in the small parts
catalog or was it micro mark I used to get both both were really stunning
catalogs for learning about modeling tools you didn't know about but these
right here let's get this close up look at the jaws on these oh yeah these are
totally amazing the way they work is this back handle actually levers a long
dovetail so there's this long dovetail these travel uh these these to the top
and the bottom half are separated I mean you do this you leave or the bottom on
back and again it means you have a huge amount a great amount of grabbing
pressure out at the end of this for sewing these are mind-blowing for doing
ship modeling work like you're building a balsa wood ship like the HMS surprise
or the victory or something like that these can be incredible for the rigging
getting stuff where you want it the the two basically having this end like a
hemostat I think these are a surgery tool I'm not sure gives you a huge
amount of precision with the tip so you can really move stuff for action at a
distance we started off with your basic needlenose pliers
I find these way more useful and use them way more than needlenose pliers
again you should have these everyone should have these and a set of these and
one of these and I'm here to tell you that you need a fish hook remover and
you need this remote little sir Grabber both of these honestly I think
the first time I bought one of these it was like 30 bucks which was a lot for me
to spend on a tool and the first time it saved my ass I was like that was totally
worth 30 bucks I think I had a cord that went into one of my sweatshirts and I
had no idea how to get it back out and I threaded this in and managed to grab it
and pull it back out and I felt like a miracle worker
the little grabbers they could save your life thanks for watching that is my tool
tip and if you have some other suggestions of some great needlenose
pliers that I haven't covered here coz there are a lot of them I'd love to know
about them thank you guys for watching as always stay safe and see you next
time