"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 10:48:16 +0000 (UTC), Arthur
wrote:

Anybody tried these?
http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/618-1533

Thay've been around for years. Footprint are probably OK, but a Happy
Shopper one will have a soft nut that chews up from acting as a pivot
and becomes hard to turn for adjustment.

The question really is whether a pair of "mangling pliers" like this,
with gripper teeth rather than flat jaws, really needs to have accurate
size adjustment. A simple Footprint wrench has either a single pivot
position or a handful of discrete positions and they just let the taper
in the jaws bridge the rest of the gap.

Footprints are for small bore iron pipes. They are very good at what they
are intended for, which is gripping the pipe. They are not for nuts and the
likes.


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