The Knipex 125 Cobras are probably the best every day carry (EDC) pliers around. The only issue is how to carry them. In this video I go over a simple improvement that you can do to make them easier to carry in your pocket.
Since the day I got my pair years ago, I've carried mine with a rubber band around it. I don't even take it off to use it most of the time, I find the self closing quite useful (and it's easy enough to take off if you don't want it). There is something satisfying, however, about how perfectly that magnet fits and keeps it closed.
Mind. Blown. I just ordered my very first Knipex yesterday. I already have a bunch of those small magnets. I use some of those same magnets to keep the fuel door on my old pickup shut. Now I'm basically a 47 year old kid waiting for Christmas..
If you did want to use a sheath as to not have these pliers scratch other items in your pockets. I found that an old school maglite mini pouch is absolutely perfectly sized. Also if you want the wrench to be a bit more compact you open the wrench to the second stop click and the handles will be as close together as possible.
I'm a facilities maintenance man, Logger jeans with suspenders is how I carry a fair amount of tools nearly every where I go. That goes for after work and weekends too.
I carry knipex wrench pliers with a velcro wrap wire tie. Its like a zip tie but velcro so I have one end looped around one handle and then the tail end wraps around both handles. it keeps it in place and can grip hands free, similar to vice grips if need be.
Using the knipex 125 everyday as i work as an fiber laser cnc operator, dealing with a lot of metal work i wouldn't prefer this as it will collect all the metal shawings , i have found that if you take a small rubber O ring that fits tightly around the jaws just infront of the adjust button , it will keep them shut and also it will act as a rubber band and spring the pliers back close when released (basically turning them to spring close pliers)
I carry some of my edc in cloth glasses cases.I use the one with the spring clip top. Pinch the sides to open it. They work great, and easy to transfer from one pocket to another on laundry day, or shift the kit to a coat pocket.
Please make a video of what all is in your EDC kit shown in this video. BTW thank you your videos are great, concise, interesting, useful and well made...Keep it up
I have a ranger band around mine, and keep it in a knife pocket on my pants. The Ranger band isn't to keep it from opening as much as to provide extra friction so it can't accidentally fall out. Many of my pants have flaps over the knife pocket, but often that is part of the cargo pocket, so if I'm reaching in the cargo pocket, the pliers are not as retained. I've lost a pair in the past, so I'm extra careful now.
Quality tool! These people that come up with these pocket gadgets appear not to be mechanically inclined. I’m very mechanically, inclined, and Handyman But I see no need and carrying around players with me for the rest of my life
Nice tip! I prefer the xs as edc. Because the jaws are so much thinner than the 125s you can use them in a lot of use cases where you would use needle nose pliers. Hard to do with the 125s.
cubes are the strongest shape for a magnet because if you were to stack magnets they only get stronger until they are as thick as the are wide and you can rotate it around the point the poles in whatever direction you need to if it’s a cube so for the most compact magnets you would want the highest grade cube shaped magnet you can find.
Run a cord from above through the upper handle around the lower handle and back up through the upper handle. Then the pliers are removable without opening the cord loop and they also stay closed. The cord needs to be the right diameter that just fits through the upper handle with a little bit of friction. So then you can place them on your keychain. Hm, I think I also filed down the screw that sticks out inside the upper handle for this to work. But that's not a big deal.
It was just a random thought. I was carrying the plier wrench versions before and had a little sheath in the pocket to keep them closed but these happened to have that little slot where a magnet would fit so I like them much better. They are lighter too.
I have carried mine for almost 5 years in everytging feom dress pants to shorts and had not one issue with them ever. Left pocket and they stay right where they go and have never had them open up or cause any issues
I don't really have a problem with them opening in my pocket or it just isn't enough that it is an issue but i think the magnet might attach to other things in there
Not bad a made a mini toolkit with some knipex the 5 inch cobra pilers, 5 inch pilers wrench, 5 inch needle nose with cutters, then some other tools like Topeak rocket ratchet lite, 5 inch fiskers scissors, a micro box cutter from harbor fright, dewalt nail punch I took the grip off, 511 pry tool, door pin removal tool Black and red electric tape wrapped on a credit card in the flattened out duck tape on another card assassin 32,000 safety wire and some para cord and it all fits in a max edition micro It’s pretty close to the limit of what the little a pocket organizer can do but I can comfortably put it in any pocket
That sounds like a really useful setup. I have the 5 inch pliers wrench as well. There are definite benefits to having separate tools vs a single multi. As well as separate pliers for holding bolts while removing nuts. The wave is great for what it is but the pliers are basic needle nose at best. There isn't much leverage and I do question the strength so for most things I use the knipex.
@@projectswithrich22 waves pretty good I carried the leather man super tool 300 for years and it worked fine but it always felt like a compromise when using it and Feel the kit maybe slightly heavier but the amount of work you can do is so much more I have a older version slightly bigger for a car toolkit on my channel and I used it to disassemble a harrier jet at a volunteer event. I think the other part it sort of got me to put together the kit is the fact I’ve been working aircraft maintenance for about nine years it’s just really convenient to have a very small capable to in confined spaces.
If you are on the practical side of life and like wearing cargo pants, carry it in a cargo pocket where it lays horizontal with the "mouth" aligned upwards. Easy and comfortable.
I keep mine as well as an Olight i3t on my leather zippered front pocket wallet from a South American leather company called Hide and Drink. Fits so well I don't even realize they are there.
At work, me and others, have the 180 Cobra in our pockets. For edc, out of work, I carry a 150 Cobra. 125 sacrifices a lot of performance and versatility,, ERgos and more, for some grams... 150 is the way to go for edc. Again, at work, we carry the 180 in our pockets... Ne man. 125 is almost a novelty, compared to the next sizes up..
For well over 20 years I have cut the front pocket out of my work pants and replaced them with slightly larger ones I make out of heavy weight linen and in each pocket I sew another small pocket inside of it to keep a pair of small water pump pliers, a baby adjustable wrench and my customized AAA size mini mag lite that I replaced the bulb with a small LED cob that recently was replaced with a small o-light my girlfriend gave me
Nice magnet trick but does it stay closed while walking you didnt demonstrate that of course it stayed closed with the tiny magnet you didnt even change your stance
Well, most multitools have some variety of pliers built in. But lately, I have been considering replacing my Leatherman Skeletool with the PICHI X2. I would gain a wrench and a prybar, but I would lose the pliers. I could fix that by adding the Knipex to my EDC.
I honestly don't know about magnets and solid state drives. In that pocket with the Cobras I carry the wallet and keys and in the other pocket I carry the phone. They naturally get separated since those things will scratch the phone.
@@projectswithrich22 solid state drives and flash memory (like SD cards) are impervious to magnets. The day's of cassette tapes and film are long behind us.
@@omicrondec But magnetizing the bits of your phone can skew your sensors, some phone makers only use stainless for this reason. Same with some of the new motorized camera assemblies in phones. Sure cassettes are mostly gone, but we still use magnets in modern life, and will continue to, and sensors are an even larger part of emerging technology.
I think the pronunciation is still up for debate. I had someone tell me the other day it was obvious because we don't say KA-NIFE. I'll probably just pick one and stick with it lol.
@@projectswithrich22 In Germany, they pronounce it K-nippex. Taken from abKnipsen, meaning to pinch. But Nipex or Knipex, everyone says it interchangeably.
When nuts attack, pull out your EDC pliers and tighten them down just like you train to. Don't neglect your training days, otherwise loose nuts might get you.
