@@bluerizlagirl You would indeed not expect to be able to deform plastic like that - on the other hand, when you stop for a second to consider what "plastic" literally means...
What I remember from my preteen years is my mom's tool(s) were an anvil and a punch with the end shaped like the one in the crimper tool. The anvil with the one half was under the cloth and the other half was aligned with the bottom half, held in place by the punch and the punch was hit with a hammer. This did a very good job of seating the ring into the cloth and the bottom half. Thanks, Clive.
This the approach followed by the larger eyelet fitting tools, usually used to fit eyelets to canvas sheets (or replace missing / damaged eyelets). Combination punch and anvil with setting tool. If you're doing a LOT, you can buy bench - fixed hand presses - around the $70 mark, which offer a better result, and greater ease of use.
Finally a BigClive video that I can completely understand!🙂 Not only that, I’ve actually bought and used one of these, and had the same experience. Just like you, the crimps produced an iffy closure and I persevered with pliers. Was pleased with myself until, after a handful of uses, one side of the closure tore through the fabric instead of opening 😖 Hadn’t considered the plastic ones, so will give that a go. Thanks
These were super handy when my kids were babies and I was making them clothes. My tool is metal though. Still have it and still have about a thousand of the studs too because they come in bags of a million. My metal tool has a little recess for the stud halves, but I always theorised that a smarter way to do it would be to make the ends of the tool magnetic.
Possibly put a little neodymium magnet at the back of each anvil. I'm now trying to think of a use for a million of them.. in different colours you could make words or pictures.. maybe some sort of mat.. Don't mix them with smarties 😻
"Snap studs" or "button snaps" is what they were called here in the states, my mom was a seamstress and made custom western wear for years. The "ornate jeweled" button snaps were not cheap back in the day, her tool for setting the snaps was all metal and bench mounted. Thanks Clive👍
We've got a Chinese, but VERY decent quality, combination punch and press - stud "setting tool". Must be well over 25 years old, and apart from the (very) occasional drop of oil on the pivot, it's lasted very well. It doesn't get much use nowadays since we've almost completely moved across to the plastic Kam Snaps - lighter, lower profile, easier to fit and remarkably durable. Added benefit is they come in "all the colours" which The Wife definitely appreciates!
I'd love to see a quick followup? where you use the other pair of crimpers on the metal ones to see if it does, indeed, install each side fine, and/or use plastic ones to set them since they have those foam holders, then the metal crimper to finish it up. I don't suppose the foam/plastic things that hold the snaps in place before installing would fit the metal crimpers? For metal snaps, perhaps a small magnet on each side would do the trick to hold the snap in place before crimping?
I also have both plastic and metal press-studs. However, the metal ones are different from the ones you've shown here, the crimping method is more like the plastic ones in that they have a piece which goes through the fabric (actually a very thin walled tube) which then compresses onto the other part. It needs a hammer onto a hollow rod with an anvil on the other side to make the hole in the fabric and then the hammer onto a rod with a pointed pin on one side and the "anvil" on the other side to deform the tube and make the crimp. It clearly takes longer per stud, but at least it works.
I used a tool like that with snap buttons while making my first cosplay. I was worried about the plastic ones but they are surprisingly durable. Less likely to tear the material as well. Great purchase, got mine in a local shop and it has so many types of buttons. Even hearts and flowers etc. Has different ends for different size buttons as well, even ends for the ones that aren't in the kit. As someone that's into sewing and like the convince of the snap fasteners this was one of the best thing I've bought. A tip: in the instructions it states you need to cut a slit in the material. I just part the material with a safety pin (make an opening between fibres) and push the plastic pin through.
These have been around for ages. I recall my mother being unable to squeeze the crimper with enough force to set the grippers. She kept a small block of aluminum/aluminium and a hard plastic mallet in her sewing box. A few taps with mallet would set the halves in place.
Surprising result! I have a cheap metal crimping tool (like the one you shown, but made of tin can sheet) that completely folded in the first use, and I was expecting the plastic one to break 🙂 You can use the plastic tool to position and start the crimping, and finish it with the power of the metal tool.
Arthritis makes buttons frustrating. I convert all the buttons on shirts to plastic KAM press studs. Need to sew a few stiches to close up the old button hole. The KAM can be too tight a closure, making it easy to break the deformed plastic rivet on thick material, so relieve the sides of the male (button side) with 2 V-slits with a blade. For thicker material try the larger size longer KAM (only in black and white)
I come across this last month as i needed to fill my TEMU basket with some junk to get the free delivery. I got a metal version of the plastic one show here. For something that was only £3 ish I love it. My parrots love to chew the plastic clips off my Duvet so they are slowly being replaced with metal clips.
Clive, if you try to 3D print another pair of crimpers, try something like 95-98% infill, not 100%. Leaving the slightest amount of expansion space for the freshly laid plastic will probably give you better results, as too much expansion in the lowest layers will propagate up and probably toss all your dimentions out the window
I bought a cheap set of poppers for a project. It had rivets, those and the poppers, the tools are just anvil and various punches for use with a hammer, works really good but a bit fiddly, if I was doing a bunch I'd make parts and use my arbor press. You could probably use a small mallet while holding the plastic pliers on the edge of a bench and give a suitable blow to the top jaw to set the fastener.
I was set to say something about the Roma comment seeing as my grandfather's side were Roma, but then I remembered the story where some guys posed as gas engineers, offering to connect people up in the hills here in North Wales to a newly built pipeline. They did indeed connect people's houses up to gas, but not to a pipeline.. but to gas cylinders they'd buried under the driveway (which they also handily offered to redo). By the time the gas ran out, they were long gone of course. So yeah... :-/ And I think I speak for everyone here that we love these videos as much as the electronic ones.
I recall from the 60's my mom had a kit for putting these on clothes. She was quite into sewing at the time. As I recall the metal pieces were exactly the same, and she had a metal tool that looked like Vise-Grips but without the locking feature, just a screw on the handle you adjusted for how close the jaws needed to get. The jaws were counter bored for the parts, and I believe they had a tiny magnet embedded, although I am prepared to be proven wrong on this. I still recall my red flannel shirt with about 12 snaps down the front.
the classic hammer and anvil design is hard to beat but the plier style design does look a lot easier than trying to hold 5 things together at once tho also the plastic ones are better imo because they "spring back" from getting bent more compared to the metal studs that are bent once and never again
I recently bought the metal variety but mine came with a metal crimping tool, much better than that plastic tool, and has the same plastic collets to hold the buttons in place. Did the job for what I wanted it for.
This week's weird coincidence is my wife asking me to help her press on plastic snap buttons last night. Don't know if it was bad luck or tool misalignment, but both the central pillars on her attempt had fallen over a little instead of just smooshing flat so the button didn't work well. (Luckily, just on test scrap)
*me pressing snap on buttons, studes and eyelets into six layers of denim* "Force? What force? I just put all my grip on this!" Yeah, I also prefer the heavy duty metal pressing tool. As I do a ton of punk style stuff with a lot of studs and spikes, it was just worth the one time invest. The nice thing is that you only need to get the tool itself once and the inserts for the actuall pressing are exchangeable, so you can use it for different kinds of stuff :) I also have a bunch of these little colorful plastic snap-on buttons in stock, cause they look pretty cute on colurful stuff, color-matched or complementary color. And - despite from my initial thoughts - the plastic holds up really well even after years of use :) Nice addon feature about snap-on buttons: You can screw one side to the wall os so with a small fitting countersunk head screw. I did this a lot on my workbench, so I can hang small cotton bags of stuff (clothes pins, power supply adapters, lego brick, ...) up to the wall or a shelf without needen a hook every time. Hooks tend to catch wires and clothes, the little button parts never do this :)
Thanks Clive. I have that Large Hand problem too. I have broken My share of tools. I can squeeze a shipping scale to almost 200Lbs... Some xxl gloves don't fit because of the Short fingers...
Ooh, never tried using these myself. I love how that plastic one works. Wonder what sort of plastic that is that squishes that way. 🤔 Only experience I have close to this is installing grommets into various materials. It's always involved a hammer. haha. But always a very satisfying result.
Riveting viewing. My Nan was a master seamstress. Mum inherited a very old one of these + eyelets + rotary hole punch from her, made to survive 100 years! I wish I knew where they were.
I didnt even know the plastic studs exist, this will be a game changer. Metal ones, even with a metal crimper, are the cheap standard here, but they dont work very well and removing them is a huge pain.
Here in The States, there would be a 12 page multi-lingual safety guide included to warn the user of the risk of personal injury when using the product.
In the old days, the metal snaps came with instructions for setting them, using a pencil eraser and a wooden spool, but l don’t think wooden spools are available anymore, although any hard surface with a hole to accommodate the stud would work. Meanwhile, l want to find an eyelet setter for those tiny eyelets used in electronics, to attach hooks and eyes to ballet bodices!
For completeness you should now show us how to install the sew-on metal studs 🙂 Could you avoid pushing on the sharp points by removing the white rubbery cap, and placing the stud on the inside of the cap, before replacing it?
Used to have to sew these on with needle and thread. Took ages but what else were you doing in the early '70s. Adjusting the contacts on the car distributor, probably.
Could you maybe glue a small metal washer onto the crimper to give the stud something harder to support it instead of the cheap plastic its made from? or perhaps a way to strengthen the plastic crimper itself so it doesnt flex as much when you squeeze it? a slightly stronger spring as well maybe? i mean it does work, just needs a little extra push at the end to seal it so its not bad for being cheap
I use the plastic ones to make a more permanent case out of those form fitting bubble packages sealed in hell. Cut out all but one side, add the studs somewhere close to the opposite side. It's good for little bits and assortments I rarely use, especially the ones I could forget the purpose of if I threw away the packaging.
A thought on the metal thingies: when you perform the "final squeeze" with your normal pliers, I'd recommend to put some cloth over the rivets so they don't get scrached up.
The plastic tool is an even cheaper version of a the original cheap tool, which has the same shape (plus some non-working locking mechanism), but is made from metal. The one made of metal works quite well.
I call them studs and sockets and I use the tool differently. Take the white rubber rings off the tool and insert the clasp and lock ring into the rubber facing out, replace them on the tool and then use. Gives me a perfect result every time but my tool is metal!!
You can probably print some of those pliers to be stronger. I normally use metal ones (from other brands) and stopped using th plastic ones since they break under the loads I use them in like for bags and such. For the metal ones, you can also just use a simple holder and hammer ofcourse like 'in the old days' for hobbiest when pliers were for sure way to expensive for only some usages. The holders were generally in the bags or boxes with the press tingies and you can put them either on the pliers or on the table with hammer. Works well in jeans and thicker clothes.
I noticed while squeezing the plastic pliers, the spring is not allowing any further compression. Try removing or changing the spring to see if you can go further.
Just last week, I bought such but metal ones in a set with hole punches and a crimp for the holes in Lidl, and they are of very high quality for that money, otherwise I installed them in the company while I was working, I have a couple of million under my fingers
I must be old, we had a tool that was basically a punch and a metal 'disk', you lay your disk down with the backing bit, put the material over it(poking through a tiny slit/hole), put the other bit9be it button or recipticle) on top and the punch thing went on top and you hit it with a hammer until they were joined, metal hardware of course, this was probably from the 60s/70s as it was my mums. Upside you could put these thing through stuff like denim, downside they sometimes didn't work and you ended up having to remove the mangled mess with pliers.
Man I literally just bought myself one of these kits last month cause I needed snaps when tailoring my daughter's Halloween costume and some random home items. (Snaps on pillow cases is always useful). Snaps is what we call them in my part of the USA. Like honestly, no way a plastic crimper is a good idea. The cheap metal crimpers barely suffice. Imagine a plastic hole punch - good for maybe 1 sheet thickness. Yea these tools are never comfortable to use - substitute a riveter/crimper from a proper hardware store.
The plastic ones are easy to remove by drilling out the riveted part. The metal ones would have to by pried apart, possibly damaging the fabric. One of the few cases where i would prefer the plasic over the metal solution.
Squishing or pressurising the plastic ones probably also induces a bit of "heat" (warmth) making it more malleable, and letting it become more solid after it cooled. Though I guess at hand crank pressure, its effect is trivial.
The plastic tool sounds like it has the characteristics of high density polyethylene (HDPE) , that would be a cheap construction and quite flexible. Last time I used similar stud things, was to make tarpaulin side entrance covers for a boat. I think that involved adding rings not studs though, and was a hammer and tool type job.
If you buy a cheap tool, it will last just long enough to reach a critical stage; then break, requiring you to buy a more expensive tool. (Remember telephone sockets? Yeah .....) When I bought some press studs for a repair job, they came with a different plastic tool that you sort of clipped flat around the press stud halves and fabric, then hit with a hammer to force the sharp tines through the fabric and around the channel to lock the halves together. No doubt repeated impacts would eventually make it brittle, but it certainly lasted long enough to fit all the fasteners in the packet. I suppose you could use the plastic tool with its handy rubber rings on the ends to insert the stud just far enough for the tines to penetrate the material and bend around the thinnest parts just far enough to hold the whole thing in place, then finish it off with a good hard squeeze from the metal crimping tool. But it would be more efficient to have a metal tool with rubber rings or magnets to hold the stud/socket part and the spiky part in place .....
I wonder if the little rubber retaining rings would fit your more sturdy metal crimpers? If not, consider using the plating one for starting and the metal one for completing the crimp. It's not always convenient to get pliers around the assembled snap. The little bu**ers are sharp and that brings back a distant memory. As young lad in the late 60s I remember getting a smallpox vaccine in which they smeared the liquid on your arm and then jabbed you with what I swear was one of those snap retaining rings. I remember looking at the thing in the nurses hand and thinking that's what it looked like.
Instead of squeezing the plastic tool too hard, while holding the work piece in one hand, place one jaw of the tool on a brick and hit the top jaw with a small hammer to complete the crimping.
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Gotta love that the metal ones have a plastic tool and the plastic ones have a metal tool :)
Excellent insight 🎉
The metal tool is doing a lot to the poor plastic rivet! It allows you to exert so much force on it, it temporarily forgets to be a solid .....
@@bluerizlagirl You would indeed not expect to be able to deform plastic like that - on the other hand, when you stop for a second to consider what "plastic" literally means...
They should get together :)
don't know why can't you use the metal crimper with the metal stud.
it would be a heck of a lot stronger then the cheesy plastic crimper
What I remember from my preteen years is my mom's tool(s) were an anvil and a punch with the end shaped like the one in the crimper tool. The anvil with the one half was under the cloth and the other half was aligned with the bottom half, held in place by the punch and the punch was hit with a hammer. This did a very good job of seating the ring into the cloth and the bottom half. Thanks, Clive.
This the approach followed by the larger eyelet fitting tools, usually used to fit eyelets to canvas sheets (or replace missing / damaged eyelets). Combination punch and anvil with setting tool. If you're doing a LOT, you can buy bench - fixed hand presses - around the $70 mark, which offer a better result, and greater ease of use.
I’ve used these. Fiddly but they work well (usually)
@@phils4634 Yup, made my own tent in 1973 using those hammered eyelets. I got them from the Army & Navy surplus store in Manor Park.
I still have this. Tandy Leather still sells them.
Despite Big Clive's excellent spatial awareness and dexterity, his career in neurosurgery is limited to operating on whales.
" The Female end, ( the receiver of the Stud) "
That isn't Clive's concern... :)
The Bottom
Yes, you can call it “the receiver end”, but then you have to call the other end “the giver end”. ;)
And in this months copy of the "Horse Fanciers Gazette", we have an article from one of our Scottish contributors with tips we can all enjoy.
Female end, flanged, lip...
I enjoy this content just as much as the electronics content. Thanks!
Glad to know that you use studs to tame the ‘wizards sleeve’
Finally a BigClive video that I can completely understand!🙂
Not only that, I’ve actually bought and used one of these, and had the same experience.
Just like you, the crimps produced an iffy closure and I persevered with pliers. Was pleased with myself until, after a handful of uses, one side of the closure tore through the fabric instead of opening 😖
Hadn’t considered the plastic ones, so will give that a go. Thanks
1:17 😂 wait until they find out that certain electronic components are "married", and some computers have slave/master drives.
to say nothing of white and blacklisting!
Which components are "married"? I don't think I understand the reference there.
These were super handy when my kids were babies and I was making them clothes. My tool is metal though. Still have it and still have about a thousand of the studs too because they come in bags of a million. My metal tool has a little recess for the stud halves, but I always theorised that a smarter way to do it would be to make the ends of the tool magnetic.
Possibly put a little neodymium magnet at the back of each anvil.
I'm now trying to think of a use for a million of them.. in different colours you could make words or pictures..
maybe some sort of mat..
Don't mix them with smarties 😻
Haberdashery is such a fun word to say. Much like flabbergasted.
Flabbergasted haberdasher!
Flabbergasted discombobulated haberdasher
Say it with a Daffy Duck voice for enhanced fun.
@@Nono-hk3is
... Whose name was Hunkapillar. 😯🤣
A riveting video :) But seriously, it is great that you share these random useful items with us who would never otherwise know.
"Snap studs" or "button snaps" is what they were called here in the states, my mom was a seamstress and made custom western wear for years. The "ornate jeweled" button snaps were not cheap back in the day, her tool for setting the snaps was all metal and bench mounted. Thanks Clive👍
I thought just "snaps"
@terrym1065
Thats a cool story about your mom. Nothing easy about making Western gear, she must have been good at it. 😎
We've got a Chinese, but VERY decent quality, combination punch and press - stud "setting tool". Must be well over 25 years old, and apart from the (very) occasional drop of oil on the pivot, it's lasted very well. It doesn't get much use nowadays since we've almost completely moved across to the plastic Kam Snaps - lighter, lower profile, easier to fit and remarkably durable. Added benefit is they come in "all the colours" which The Wife definitely appreciates!
I got a metal one with magnets! Its a life saver no less!
To be fair Clive, very few of your "subjects" survive your videos. And that's why we love you! :)
You sound more disappointed that the plastic tool didn't snap.
I'd love to see a quick followup? where you use the other pair of crimpers on the metal ones to see if it does, indeed, install each side fine, and/or use plastic ones to set them since they have those foam holders, then the metal crimper to finish it up.
I don't suppose the foam/plastic things that hold the snaps in place before installing would fit the metal crimpers?
For metal snaps, perhaps a small magnet on each side would do the trick to hold the snap in place before crimping?
You know there may be problems when you really need a rigid tool but the one you have is bendy.
There's some ointment you can get for that.
I also have both plastic and metal press-studs. However, the metal ones are different from the ones you've shown here, the crimping method is more like the plastic ones in that they have a piece which goes through the fabric (actually a very thin walled tube) which then compresses onto the other part. It needs a hammer onto a hollow rod with an anvil on the other side to make the hole in the fabric and then the hammer onto a rod with a pointed pin on one side and the "anvil" on the other side to deform the tube and make the crimp. It clearly takes longer per stud, but at least it works.
That sounds like the best of both worlds!
I used a tool like that with snap buttons while making my first cosplay. I was worried about the plastic ones but they are surprisingly durable. Less likely to tear the material as well. Great purchase, got mine in a local shop and it has so many types of buttons. Even hearts and flowers etc. Has different ends for different size buttons as well, even ends for the ones that aren't in the kit. As someone that's into sewing and like the convince of the snap fasteners this was one of the best thing I've bought.
A tip: in the instructions it states you need to cut a slit in the material. I just part the material with a safety pin (make an opening between fibres) and push the plastic pin through.
Took me a minute to realize what you were talking aboot. We (USA) call them "snaps" not "press studs".
I was actually considering buying one of those kits. Thanks for the warning!
It's a tool review ! That's technical !
But you do make excellent non-technical content too - I'm thinking of your piece on dementia.
I have a £200 press for fitting snaps. In works like a giant centre punch. Nothing else I tried did a really good permanent job
Bears, studs.. this channel's got everything.
Bear fingers! 5:20
"They're so sQuiShY!" I don't think I've ever seen you break character like that Clive. I loved it!
These have been around for ages. I recall my mother being unable to squeeze the crimper with enough force to set the grippers. She kept a small block of aluminum/aluminium and a hard plastic mallet in her sewing box. A few taps with mallet would set the halves in place.
I never thought about the plastic ones. I need to get some now for some projects. Nice!
That tool is just a stress reliever toy 😂
speaking from experience, the well made stamped steel crimpers with the hardened steel jaws (for the metal snaps) resolves all problems immediately.
Surprising result! I have a cheap metal crimping tool (like the one you shown, but made of tin can sheet) that completely folded in the first use, and I was expecting the plastic one to break 🙂
You can use the plastic tool to position and start the crimping, and finish it with the power of the metal tool.
Arthritis makes buttons frustrating. I convert all the buttons on shirts to plastic KAM press studs. Need to sew a few stiches to close up the old button hole. The KAM can be too tight a closure, making it easy to break the deformed plastic rivet on thick material, so relieve the sides of the male (button side) with 2 V-slits with a blade. For thicker material try the larger size longer KAM (only in black and white)
It is always a good day to watch Big Clive’s Magnificent Meat Puppets perform with daring dexterity 🎉
I come across this last month as i needed to fill my TEMU basket with some junk to get the free delivery. I got a metal version of the plastic one show here. For something that was only £3 ish I love it. My parrots love to chew the plastic clips off my Duvet so they are slowly being replaced with metal clips.
Tempted to ask why you are replacing your parrots with metal clips -- but I won't
mhoobag1 is obviously replacing the parrots because the metal clips will not chew through the plastic clips
Clive, if you try to 3D print another pair of crimpers, try something like 95-98% infill, not 100%. Leaving the slightest amount of expansion space for the freshly laid plastic will probably give you better results, as too much expansion in the lowest layers will propagate up and probably toss all your dimentions out the window
I used similar items but the actual press is fully metal and works fine.
This was way more interesting than I expected it would be!
Clive could make a video of the bus timetable and it would be interesting.
@@SusanBell-dl5gr I think you're right!!
I approve of this if only for the colour of the tool ! I have a similar handheld tool and I have a set of the two parts which I put in my drill press
BigClive I could tell by the vid-thumb, that TEMU hinge-point on the orange one could give ya a blood-blister when it shears off. 👍
Thank you
My stepdad got the exact same one. Not only did it not work for anything else than a thin piece of clothing, but it broke at like the 5th use
I bought a cheap set of poppers for a project. It had rivets, those and the poppers, the tools are just anvil and various punches for use with a hammer, works really good but a bit fiddly, if I was doing a bunch I'd make parts and use my arbor press.
You could probably use a small mallet while holding the plastic pliers on the edge of a bench and give a suitable blow to the top jaw to set the fastener.
I was set to say something about the Roma comment seeing as my grandfather's side were Roma, but then I remembered the story where some guys posed as gas engineers, offering to connect people up in the hills here in North Wales to a newly built pipeline. They did indeed connect people's houses up to gas, but not to a pipeline.. but to gas cylinders they'd buried under the driveway (which they also handily offered to redo). By the time the gas ran out, they were long gone of course. So yeah... :-/ And I think I speak for everyone here that we love these videos as much as the electronic ones.
Okay now, I can see knitting class coming up in the future. Time to head to the store and get my knitting needles and yarn.
"The female end--that is the receiver of the stud."
I was getting bad information about sex from neighborhood dogs. This helps!
That's pretty cool. Thanks Big Clive.
I recall from the 60's my mom had a kit for putting these on clothes. She was quite into sewing at the time. As I recall the metal pieces were exactly the same, and she had a metal tool that looked like Vise-Grips but without the locking feature, just a screw on the handle you adjusted for how close the jaws needed to get. The jaws were counter bored for the parts, and I believe they had a tiny magnet embedded, although I am prepared to be proven wrong on this. I still recall my red flannel shirt with about 12 snaps down the front.
the classic hammer and anvil design is hard to beat but the plier style design does look a lot easier than trying to hold 5 things together at once tho
also the plastic ones are better imo because they "spring back" from getting bent more compared to the metal studs that are bent once and never again
Thanks :)
I recently bought the metal variety but mine came with a metal crimping tool, much better than that plastic tool, and has the same plastic collets to hold the buttons in place. Did the job for what I wanted it for.
This week's weird coincidence is my wife asking me to help her press on plastic snap buttons last night. Don't know if it was bad luck or tool misalignment, but both the central pillars on her attempt had fallen over a little instead of just smooshing flat so the button didn't work well. (Luckily, just on test scrap)
On the plastic studs, the high pressure created by the tool probably creates some localised heat, making the plastic more malleable.
*me pressing snap on buttons, studes and eyelets into six layers of denim*
"Force? What force? I just put all my grip on this!"
Yeah, I also prefer the heavy duty metal pressing tool. As I do a ton of punk style stuff with a lot of studs and spikes, it was just worth the one time invest. The nice thing is that you only need to get the tool itself once and the inserts for the actuall pressing are exchangeable, so you can use it for different kinds of stuff :)
I also have a bunch of these little colorful plastic snap-on buttons in stock, cause they look pretty cute on colurful stuff, color-matched or complementary color. And - despite from my initial thoughts - the plastic holds up really well even after years of use :)
Nice addon feature about snap-on buttons: You can screw one side to the wall os so with a small fitting countersunk head screw. I did this a lot on my workbench, so I can hang small cotton bags of stuff (clothes pins, power supply adapters, lego brick, ...) up to the wall or a shelf without needen a hook every time. Hooks tend to catch wires and clothes, the little button parts never do this :)
“I’m not sure this is gonna survive this video” - Clive, this is what we expect!!
In Glasgow called a "stud," while in America they are called "snaps." Ron W4BIN
Answer to title question: Yes. Yes, it survives.
I have one but it's from Prym and being made in Germany it's built for life. For 2.00 shipped you probably can't expect much.
Thanks Clive.
I have that Large Hand problem too. I have broken My share of tools.
I can squeeze a shipping scale to almost 200Lbs...
Some xxl gloves don't fit because of the Short fingers...
Brilliant as always Clive
Ooh, never tried using these myself. I love how that plastic one works. Wonder what sort of plastic that is that squishes that way. 🤔
Only experience I have close to this is installing grommets into various materials. It's always involved a hammer. haha. But always a very satisfying result.
The listings often mention a resin type plastic.
Nice one Clive.!
Sorry, you lost me at The Doddle of "The Mound of Venus"😉😆
Stud on your overalls sleeve cuff.👍✅
Riveting viewing.
My Nan was a master seamstress. Mum inherited a very old one of these + eyelets + rotary hole punch from her, made to survive 100 years! I wish I knew where they were.
I didn’t know about the plastic once. (Rivets/clips that is) Thanks!
i like the leverage of that metal tool. ive never seen that sort of tool before.
I didnt even know the plastic studs exist, this will be a game changer. Metal ones, even with a metal crimper, are the cheap standard here, but they dont work very well and removing them is a huge pain.
So, on top of al the other crap Clive does and has done, he's a haberdasher? The lore goes deep.
Here in The States, there would be a 12 page multi-lingual safety guide included to warn the user of the risk of personal injury when using the product.
In the old days, the metal snaps came with instructions for setting them, using a pencil eraser and a wooden spool, but l don’t think wooden spools are available anymore, although any hard surface with a hole to accommodate the stud would work.
Meanwhile, l want to find an eyelet setter for those tiny eyelets used in electronics, to attach hooks and eyes to ballet bodices!
No mosfets, diodes or capacitors. Very clever design.
For completeness you should now show us how to install the sew-on metal studs 🙂 Could you avoid pushing on the sharp points by removing the white rubbery cap, and placing the stud on the inside of the cap, before replacing it?
Used to have to sew these on with needle and thread. Took ages but what else were you doing in the early '70s.
Adjusting the contacts on the car distributor, probably.
Could you maybe glue a small metal washer onto the crimper to give the stud something harder to support it instead of the cheap plastic its made from? or perhaps a way to strengthen the plastic crimper itself so it doesnt flex as much when you squeeze it? a slightly stronger spring as well maybe? i mean it does work, just needs a little extra push at the end to seal it so its not bad for being cheap
It makes excellent landfill.
I use the plastic ones to make a more permanent case out of those form fitting bubble packages sealed in hell. Cut out all but one side, add the studs somewhere close to the opposite side. It's good for little bits and assortments I rarely use, especially the ones I could forget the purpose of if I threw away the packaging.
A thought on the metal thingies: when you perform the "final squeeze" with your normal pliers, I'd recommend to put some cloth over the rivets so they don't get scrached up.
The plastic tool is an even cheaper version of a the original cheap tool, which has the same shape (plus some non-working locking mechanism), but is made from metal. The one made of metal works quite well.
I call them studs and sockets and I use the tool differently. Take the white rubber rings off the tool and insert the clasp and lock ring into the rubber facing out, replace them on the tool and then use. Gives me a perfect result every time but my tool is metal!!
Bears of the internet unite!
XXL bear paw owner here, 11" official glove size...😉
Yeah. Need those big work gloves.
We have the metal one, but generally use an anvil, punch, and mallet.
You can probably print some of those pliers to be stronger.
I normally use metal ones (from other brands) and stopped using th plastic ones since they break under the loads I use them in like for bags and such.
For the metal ones, you can also just use a simple holder and hammer ofcourse like 'in the old days' for hobbiest when pliers were for sure way to expensive for only some usages. The holders were generally in the bags or boxes with the press tingies and you can put them either on the pliers or on the table with hammer.
Works well in jeans and thicker clothes.
I noticed while squeezing the plastic pliers, the spring is not allowing any further compression. Try removing or changing the spring to see if you can go further.
I bought a small kit from Walmart of snaps that work kinda like the plastic ones but their all metal and you hammer them together on a tiny anvil.
Just last week, I bought such but metal ones in a set with hole punches and a crimp for the holes in Lidl, and they are of very high quality for that money, otherwise I installed them in the company while I was working, I have a couple of million under my fingers
I must be old, we had a tool that was basically a punch and a metal 'disk', you lay your disk down with the backing bit, put the material over it(poking through a tiny slit/hole), put the other bit9be it button or recipticle) on top and the punch thing went on top and you hit it with a hammer until they were joined, metal hardware of course, this was probably from the 60s/70s as it was my mums. Upside you could put these thing through stuff like denim, downside they sometimes didn't work and you ended up having to remove the mangled mess with pliers.
Man I literally just bought myself one of these kits last month cause I needed snaps when tailoring my daughter's Halloween costume and some random home items. (Snaps on pillow cases is always useful). Snaps is what we call them in my part of the USA. Like honestly, no way a plastic crimper is a good idea. The cheap metal crimpers barely suffice. Imagine a plastic hole punch - good for maybe 1 sheet thickness. Yea these tools are never comfortable to use - substitute a riveter/crimper from a proper hardware store.
The plastic ones are easy to remove by drilling out the riveted part. The metal ones would have to by pried apart, possibly damaging the fabric. One of the few cases where i would prefer the plasic over the metal solution.
Yes, you can still use male and female when referring to plug-in devices.
If I remember the film correctly Joan Collins was the reciever of the "The Stud". 😂😂😂
Squishing or pressurising the plastic ones probably also induces a bit of "heat" (warmth) making it more malleable, and letting it become more solid after it cooled. Though I guess at hand crank pressure, its effect is trivial.
Goodmorning Clive❤
The plastic tool sounds like it has the characteristics of high density polyethylene (HDPE) , that would be a cheap construction and quite flexible. Last time I used similar stud things, was to make tarpaulin side entrance covers for a boat. I think that involved adding rings not studs though, and was a hammer and tool type job.
Fill the hollow handle grooves with hot glue stick (or epoxy putty if you want to spend the big bucks) to make them more rigid.
If you buy a cheap tool, it will last just long enough to reach a critical stage; then break, requiring you to buy a more expensive tool. (Remember telephone sockets? Yeah .....)
When I bought some press studs for a repair job, they came with a different plastic tool that you sort of clipped flat around the press stud halves and fabric, then hit with a hammer to force the sharp tines through the fabric and around the channel to lock the halves together. No doubt repeated impacts would eventually make it brittle, but it certainly lasted long enough to fit all the fasteners in the packet.
I suppose you could use the plastic tool with its handy rubber rings on the ends to insert the stud just far enough for the tines to penetrate the material and bend around the thinnest parts just far enough to hold the whole thing in place, then finish it off with a good hard squeeze from the metal crimping tool. But it would be more efficient to have a metal tool with rubber rings or magnets to hold the stud/socket part and the spiky part in place .....
I wonder if the little rubber retaining rings would fit your more sturdy metal crimpers? If not, consider using the plating one for starting and the metal one for completing the crimp. It's not always convenient to get pliers around the assembled snap.
The little bu**ers are sharp and that brings back a distant memory. As young lad in the late 60s I remember getting a smallpox vaccine in which they smeared the liquid on your arm and then jabbed you with what I swear was one of those snap retaining rings. I remember looking at the thing in the nurses hand and thinking that's what it looked like.
I have one of those, in red.
It works fine.
Of course, I'm not a bear, but surely even bears can be gentle.
We can be gentle until frustration sets in.
I strangely feel I've been given a lesson about birds and the bees.
I have the one that has a round anvil cupped thing and a punch you use a mallet on it . made a bunch of cold fronts for trucks with it .
"Roma-Clip" 😂😂😂
You could be a multi millionaire if you take that to market.
Instead of squeezing the plastic tool too hard, while holding the work piece in one hand, place one jaw of the tool on a brick and hit the top jaw with a small hammer to complete the crimping.
So many great words in this video 😂. Sorry Clive.