Yeah, mine came with an EU plug that needed to be switched.
(Electrics are rated for 220v)
I have run it on 110v/1/60 for a few years, so far.
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Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday
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(Electrics are rated for 220v)
I have run it on 110v/1/60 for a few years, so far.
Love cordless heat guns makes labeling control wiring so easy. If you have a big job then plug in for sure. I'm pretty much all cordless including the oscillating, cordless skill saw and sawzall. I really have no need for cords on the job. Well no that's not true still need a cord for the charger.
SomeGuy
Hobbyist
They're pretty awesome pliers, Santa would be kind. Mississauga Hardware had the 3 pack for $139.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
And free shipping if you add a couple rolls of tape to push it over $150
SomeGuy
Hobbyist
I pretty much always put everything away each day when I'm done working, so it's easy to keep pliers from disappearing to the void that way. Knipex stuff is pretty awesome, I think everyone should have pliers wrench, twin grips, and their compact bolt cutters...and maybe cobra's, but they are damn pricey, usually average $50/pair.
I added some pliers wrench soft jaws to my order to get the free shipping
That's one way to make sure they disappear in my shop. If I want to be able to find things, I keep them with the last job I used them on or I put them on a surface - if I can find one that isn't already being used for other important tools I don't want to lose.
Putting stuff in a drawer is a sure fire recipe for losing them.
ChazzC
Ultra Member
“A place for everything and everything in its place.”
It’s like putting your car keys in the same place every time you get home: you’ll always know where they are.
This tells me that you are a filer by nature. I am a piler. These are two fundamentally different personality types. I learned this from a Steelcase Office Furniture Psychologist when I was building large corporate headquarter buildings and office spaces. If you try to turn a piler into a filer, you will destroy his productivity and vice versa. Think of it like dogs and cats. Dogs are dogs and cats are cats. Dogs are not cats and cats are not dogs. If you want to have the most productive efficient workspace, you don't force either type to be the other. Instead you let them be who and what they are because accepting both types is a form of diversity allowing the combined capability to be more than the sum of each.
I never have trouble finding my keys as long as nobody else puts them away on me.
But we’re not machines, and we adapt to our environments. My workbench is three layers deep with tools and cabling right now, but all the dishes in my kitchen are stacked nicely, the spice drawers are in alphabetical order, and my tool boxes and parts cabinets are all sorted and labeled. Filing or Piling is adapted to match the task at hand.
Yes, there are a few mutants like you around........
I have a few mutant traits like that too.
It isn't the norm though.
Someplace I recently read that the secret to mankind's ongoing survival in a radically changing encironment is adaptability. Otherwise we would have been wiped out ages ago.
SomeGuy
Hobbyist
But dogs and cats are both pets and animals and mammals and furry and have four legs and like eating meat....they are more similar than different.
Putting things back in their drawers (or bins or shelves) just resets everything back to known state each day. I also don't have the luxury of having enough work space to leave things out
Yep agreed- these are awesome pliers!
Received today:
Took almost a week for them to arrive from Mississauga Hardware but a good list price of $51.91 for these 8” size (which I kinda think is the Goldilocks size)
Same ones on Amazon are $55.42. I signed up to be on their email list and got a $15 discount on my first order over $100. Also shipping is free for an order over $100. So bottom line for 3 sets was $159.02
(Why 3 pair? - son, son-in-law, and yours truly - SWMBO didn’t buy into ‘but dear I only got 3 so I’d get the discount).
Here’s a pic next to my regular sliding pliers. (btw these are vintage and made in Japan)
Here’s the TwinGrip on a 7/16” and 3/4” bolt head.
SomeGuy
Hobbyist
Nice! Hope you and the son's end up liking them, they are a pretty slick design and the end gripping comes in useful.
Surprised it took a week to arrive, but might be because of where you are...usually Mississauga hardware I'll order say day 1 (usually in the evening), ships day 2, and arrives day 3 for me but I'm in the city.