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In practice, some people find this the most annoying and useless tool since the adjustable crescent wrench. Channel-type pliers have a slot design in the head that includes notches for adjusting the tool for different gripping sizes. These notches are the problem with this tool since they never seem to give you the size you need.

And because you end up adjusting the tool just a little too small or too large for the fastener, you often end up stripping the bolt head or nut you're gripping.

Most people who insist on using channel-type pliers find that they need to own several pairs of different sizes—which contradicts the whole idea of having an adjustable tool in the first place.

One place that channel-type pliers can be useful is for plumbing work, especially in making the connections for drain traps. Other than this, channel-type pliers are most useful simply as a crude gripping tool. A single pair of channel-lock pliers is perhaps necessary for the workshop.

But for most purposes, have a good collection of specialty wrenches is a better idea. A good pair of name-brand Vise-Grip pliers can also be a good alternative. Before you get indignant, we have no criticism of the true Vise-Grip wrench. The Vise-Grip is a toolbox classic , around since , when it was first manufactured in Nebraska. The Vise-Grip performs admirably, capable of functions you can't imagine pliers doing.

Yet the world is filled with off-brand Vise-Grips—pliers that look like Vise-Grips and purport to do the same thing, but which fail miserably. There is no problem with using non-brand-name, less expensive versions of popular brand-name tools—provided they work.

But the true Vise-Grip is a fairly delicate device, and you likely will be sorely disappointed if you buy a non-brand knockoff made by a shadowy manufacturing plant in a third-world nation. When it comes to a pair of locking pliers, you are best served by going with the original Vice-Grip now sold by Irwin —or at least a model from another name-brand tool manufacturer, such as Crescent or Craftsman.

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