Vise-grips must have in your tool chest by script use on a lot of applications especially for removing. Things. You just want to grab a fastener and hold it tight. And we're going to turn it.

The first locking pliers as we know them today were invented in 1924 by a blacksmith called William Petersen. He christened them Vise-Grips, and the range continues to be manufactured to this day as part of the Irwin brand.

Sometimes known as a vice grip or locking pliers, they are useful for removing rounded nuts. The locking design also means they can be used as a vice as well as acting as a third hand. All these features make them ideal for those who work alone. Various sizes are available.

pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.

pliers, hand-operated tool for holding and gripping small articles or for bending and cutting wire. Slip-joint pliers have grooved jaws, and the pivot hole in one member is elongated so that the member can pivot in either of two positions in order to grasp objects of different size in the most effective way.

William Petersen William Petersen was a Danish immigrant who invented the first locking pliers in his blacksmith shop, and began selling them from the trunk of his car to farmers and people in surrounding towns.

Petersen, a Danish immigrant who patented the tool in 1924. Newell Rubbermaid purchased the Vise-Grip brand and the parent company that owned it in 2008 and promptly shipped pliers manufacturing to China, where it remains.

William Petersen William Petersen was a Danish immigrant who invented the first locking pliers in his blacksmith shop, and began selling them from the trunk of his car to farmers and people in surrounding towns. He patented his new idea and called it Vise-Grip.

Also known as mole wrenches, mole grips, or locking pliers, vice grips have a locking feature allowing them to clamp tight and lock, helping you make a good cut, get current measurements, free a stripped bolt, and more.

Versions of the Mole wrench are still used in households all over the world more than half a century after Coughtrie patented it. Thomas Robb Coughtrie was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, into a family of manufacturing electrical engineers in 1917, and educated at Bellshill Academy.

Material Forged jaws made of chrome-vanadium-steel. Body of pliers made of high-resistance special steel, nickel-plated.

Irwin Industrial Tools, originally established in 1885 in the USA, is a manufacturer and distributor of hand tools and power tool accessories. The company produces a range of construction and industrial tools for trade workers, including Vise-Grip locking pliers, power tools, safety gear, and other construction tools.