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Cutting pliers
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You may have been recalling one of @darkzero 's many posts about his love affair with Knipex. 
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What Did You Buy Today?
I never had the urge to try single insert indexable endmills. Just figured they wouldn't work well with my little mill/drill. I do have a 1" indexable end mill though that uses APKT inserts. Found this set of 3 on Amazon for over 1/2 off, paid $50. They're coolant through so my guess they...
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I Think I Might Have a Slight Problem With Knipex....
....Well according to some people. I don't see anything wrong. I swear it was not intentional to end up with the entire sets, it just happened. I know, I know, I'm missing the baby Cobra but not sure I will get it. ;) (The Cobra on the right is my very first Knipex I ever bought. Got it from...
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Retaining clip pliers
I have a Mac tools set with interchangeable tips and I think they suck big time. I may have to invest in that nice 8 piece Knipex set so thanks for the heads up on the brand, David Best!
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I bought Knipex tools from a German guy back in the early '70s who came around shops with a vanload of tools and knives that he personally imported from "The Fatherland", quite a character to say the least, selling excellent tools and knives, that we still use on a daily basis.
RIP; Rudolph H. Kuhn.
RIP; Rudolph H. Kuhn.
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I’m a huge fan of German tools and equipment. They never seem to under-engineer the things they produce.
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I'm subscribed to Project Farm & I like his videos. He may have crude methods of testing & sometimes questionable but they get the job done. He does a good job with his tests & making his videos. He's not sponsored by the manufacturers & buys the stuff with his own money.
In this particular video, some of the stuff he's cutting no one would ever cut using these types of cutters, not even with mini bolt cutters which BTW I love my Knipex mini bolt cutters.
But I get it, he's testing to show us what it takes to bring them to failure.
In this particular video, some of the stuff he's cutting no one would ever cut using these types of cutters, not even with mini bolt cutters which BTW I love my Knipex mini bolt cutters.
But I get it, he's testing to show us what it takes to bring them to failure.
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You may have been recalling one of @darkzero 's many posts about his love affair with Knipex.
What Did You Buy Today?
I never had the urge to try single insert indexable endmills. Just figured they wouldn't work well with my little mill/drill. I do have a 1" indexable end mill though that uses APKT inserts. Found this set of 3 on Amazon for over 1/2 off, paid $50. They're coolant through so my guess they...
I Think I Might Have a Slight Problem With Knipex....
....Well according to some people. I don't see anything wrong. I swear it was not intentional to end up with the entire sets, it just happened. I know, I know, I'm missing the baby Cobra but not sure I will get it. ;) (The Cobra on the right is my very first Knipex I ever bought. Got it from...
Retaining clip pliers
I have a Mac tools set with interchangeable tips and I think they suck big time. I may have to invest in that nice 8 piece Knipex set so thanks for the heads up on the brand, David Best!
Haha, damn, that's second time this week someone has pointed that out! I need to hide my evidence of such things!
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Haha, I so don't want to be though. Need to hide out for a while!Will, now you know your notorious....
Is the K silent, in the video it was driving me nuts?
I heard that in the German language pretty much every letter is pronounced. So the K is not silent. Knipex is properly pronounced that way, "ku-ni-pex". Although I know this, I still pronounce it "ni-pex".
Funny, this reminds me of a Keith Fenner video. In it he goes and grabs his Knipex Pliers Wrench. He says something like, "hold on, let me go get my...... uh, adjustable wrench (or something like that)", after he gets it he then says "you wanna get into an argument about how it's pronounced?".
I thought that was funny cause Keith Fenner isn't known to be funny or crack jokes in his videos but he does sometimes & I find it really funny.
