How to Use Pliers

okay so today I'm gonna start a new series called tool Tuesday and it's Tuesday and I'm covering tools so I just want to kind of build your tool kit for you because there's been lots of requests for yeah I have some have some of my dad's tools left over and don't even really know what they're for or how do I build a tool kit so we'll just kind of walk through some basic tools for you and this week I'm going to cover pliers but first I got a bad joke for you so what are the pliers was complaining about the screwdriver and the drill stepped in and said I don't mind him he's just a tool so anyway we're just gonna walk through these and start with the most basic one which is just the basic pliers I'd recommend pretty much everybody how the basic pliers especially before one you know eventually you're gonna want to get all your wrenches and that sort of thing but to start off with if you're ever gonna try to loosen a nut and you don't have anything this is just a good place to start because it has you know you can grab pretty much any you know most basic nuts or bolts with it it has two different adjustments here so you just open it up and it gets a little wider you close it in right and then it then and you can get smaller nuts with that too and you can grab the nut here and that hole right there or on the tip too right so it's a good tool to have around okay start there next we have what's called a needle nose because sometimes you need to get into tight spaces with this and actually in my upcoming video on Thursday you'll see that I have to use one of one of these because you got to use what you got to use and I didn't have a wrench with me at the time so I ended up using this and it's just handy because for tight spaces it also usually comes with a little cutter here too so you can cut wire with it too so that's nice to have around okay next is a channel locks not pliers that we showed you it's it only got those two settings this actually has multiple settings and I had my my video on the bathroom sink to show you know in case you had metal pipes you probably could get it off with this there's a pipe wrench that's meant for real heavy duty stuff but this will usually take care of most jobs okay and the nice thing about it is it has channels on it so all you do is just slip them into the channels right right there and then there's another channel you just bring it back get a little bigger right and you just work your way down to you fit the size that you need for maybe the piper whatever you're trying to get a hold of I'd recommend you get a good pair of these because if you don't these channels get worn and then you're fighting the thing and it's frustrating I've got it and then this gets a little wobbly and then it won't stay on and anyway you get what you pay for and a lot of things so I'd recommend you get a good pair of those lastly we have what's called a vise grips and when we were kids we use this all the time for like loosening the nuts on our on our bike but the problem is is if you're not careful and you use it too much you can you can round the the nut or the bolt and then if you go to use a an actual wrench it doesn't fit on it anymore could you you've rounded it off right so just be careful with overusing it but it is handy to have around especially if you can't get if you can't get a nut off right maybe a little wd-40 and then you use this and it's got it's got a little screw on the back right so you tighten it and that those jaws get a little tighter or you loosen it and get a little bigger and you can use this and if you clamp it down and then and as you type you tighten it as you go okay so then you've got your your bolt here and you can go a little bit smaller than the bolt and then you clamp it down and it actually snaps on there and it's it's held on so you can loosen just about anything okay so that's it for this week I hope this is helpful and we'll just continue to build your build your tool kit and we'll see you next time on tool Tuesday thank you