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Using Slip Joint Pliers

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Pliers explained

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What happens here

Slip joint pliers are presented as a versatile option with an adjustable pivot, allowing the jaws to open wider than standard pliers. This adjustability is shown by gripping different sections of a pipe, illustrating their usefulness for varying sizes.

Goal: Understand the adjustable nature and use of slip joint pliers.

Tools and materials

  • Pipe — Demonstrating adjustable gripping
  • Slip joint pliers — Gripping pipes of different sizes

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damaging the copper underneath. Once the wire is stripped, sometimes you need to grip them and twist them. A lineman pliers is great for that. But the problem with a lineman pliers the jaw only opens so large. These slip joint pliers have this adjustable jaw, which make them extremely useful when it comes to gripping different size pipes. Well, sometimes these jaws just don't open wide enough. That's when you need tongue and groove pliers and you can adjust how wide they go, which make them really nice for removing large fasteners. These pliers work great for holding things, but as soon as you let

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