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two levers and a hinge that turn your hand into a vise with opinions.
means A hand tool with two hinged jaws used to grip, bend, or cut wire and small objects by squeezing the handles together.
from Straight from the verb 'ply,' meaning to bend, fold, or work at something — itself from Old French 'plier' and ultimately Latin 'plicare,' to fold (the same root hiding in 'pliable' and 'apply'). So pliers are, quite literally, the bending things: a tool named for what it does to whatever it clamps.
- ancient design
- Bronze Age blacksmiths used them over 3,000 years ago
- leverage math
- Long handles multiply your grip force dramatically
- needle-nose
- Born to reach where fat fingers surrender
- side cutters
- Hardened jaws sever wire your scissors only dream of
- lever class
- They are a textbook first-class lever pair
lineman's pliers — standard tool with cutting edge, used by electricians since the 1800s for wire work
needle-nose pliers — long tapered jaws, commonly used in jewelry making and electronics assembly
locking pliers — patented by william petty in 1924, also called vise-grips, clamps with adjustable screw mechanism