Carlos has 6 point reversible ratcheting wrench that are AMAZING!!!! the open end goes toe to toe with snap on. I've tested the 13mm open end of both extensively on inner tie-rods for alignment.
Liquid gun bluing works great for touch ups. Longer you apply, the darker it gets. Follow up with a light hit with 0000 steel wool and oil and looks awesome
I believe Oreillys also carries that Titan pry bar in a 16" for $25 or somewhere close to it. I found a 14" one with a different handle for $16 on Amazon by Purus says the handle is CR-V but it kind of looks like potmetal but you won't find one for a cheaper price.
OMG😂 'Cut the handles off a pair of pliers then found out they didn't work' Almost as good as when my Boss said hey 'Did I ever tell u the time I set my self on fire when I was grinding?'
Good video, the reinforced hose can be easily installed with applying rubbing alcohol inside and sliding on to the handle,just be sure to let it dry before using.
This is for anyone with an opinion. Is a smaller (4-6")indexing prybar any more efficient/useful over a regular prytool/paintscrapper? The longer style pry index tool (30ish-48in extendable) seems to work awesome over the standard 5ft straight pry bar in almost every way for most heavy work applications. I am just unsure about the smaller sizes.
Could section it and weld the handle to the pry end. Ok who made those electrical strippers that are to your right and that you pick up around the 6 min mark?
At about the 6:00 minute mark, you say that "If you cut a pair of pliers down to here," indicating that most of the handles would be cut off, "they won't work anymore." Since, in the case of many pliers, that would leave you with something like a Knipex Cobra 125, which work great, I'm inclined to think that you overstated it. Cutting off most of pliers' handles would decrease the power you can apply to them and with them, but they would still function as pliers, now in tight spaces. I did that with a GearWrench, and it worked great. Granted, you picked up a specialty plier, a wire cutter/stripper/crimper, which would need more handle left uncut, but you spoke of pliers generally. Otherwise, super video, and thanks. I'm thinking of cutting down handlees of a non-Knipex brand plier wrench to see if I can get an EDC one of them at less expense. I don't think I can get down to 125, but we'll see. Cheers.
@@lastbesttool Another great video there, thanks. Good variety of tools there, including one pair of pliers, a largish traditional slip-joint, cut ""with the pivot not too far off centre" (~7:50). You make the point there (I'm paraphrasing) that if the pivot point was much less off center, it might have offered much better torque. I wonder if this is what @pubcolize's was getting at about geometry. Different pliers of any set size have remarkably different geometries anyway, so mileage will vary, I'm sure. And as you showed at the end of the stubby tools video, stubby ratchets with similar geometry had very different performance results, so I gather there's even more to it. I'm inclined to think that if I tried to cut down (for example) a 10" Lenox plier wrench, I would get very different results than if I tried to cut down a 10" Maximum brand (Canadian Tire) plier wrench, for geometric and other reasons. You've given me lots to think about before I go ahead and buy tools to cut down. Anyway, that 7" GearWrench waterpump plier that I cut down to about 5", very little padded handle left but good pivot point ratio (about what your video suggested at 8:07, at least 4:1), has been great for me (let me do what I needed to do in a tight space), so I hope more people be creative and adapt tools to their needs. Again, thanks.
You made the right choice i feel like, watching you line em up gonna do half the stubbys handle i was thinking, you could you really even use thay to pry stuff like in real life uses? Theres mo Nothing to hold onto to pry with lol. And yeah when the vid started i saw that Carlyle and thought " its the right lengths ( handle and pry head, but the pry head was like 3 times too thick, and the handle was a bit too thick in all the wrong palces to look like it would have been very useful. It looked cool, but if you planned out using it forreal, you needed a better grip to choke up on lol.. And w the titan it was alot better as it was vs the Carlyle imo, the slimmer head is alot more applicable,the notching and designs were ehh but not effecting its functionality. And the slinner handle looked perfect to cut to match the Carlyle length. Only thing i think i would have done differently, when u were grinding the end down, i would have tried to like slim the whole handle down even more, like the last half of the length, and at the end leave a lil ball or bulb end so u can grip it and have a spot to keep your habd from slippingnoff the backside. Like how those bit ratchets u chopped down ended up kinda w the bump on the end, just go up like an inch and a half or so and slightly taper it down back towards the end but leave that last bump. But thats just me. My question for you tho is, what do you see this micro pry bar with much heft in the head being used for? Like i woudk assune you had a few certain tasks in mind?
When you lined them both up and was deciding where to cut the titan, my first thought was if you cut it off after the titan logo and the following numbers on the handle,, aka actually added lie an inch to the Carlyles starting length. That looked like it would have been stubby enough, but still function to uts full capability, but where u ended up looks perfectly fine and functional so what do I know lol
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Hit it with some cold blue. Heat it, hit it again, heat it and oil soak. That's what I do with modified tools...th-cam.com/video/kkFmpZhp2ZU/w-d-xo.html&pp=iAQB
Put a deep socket on the handle and weld it on. You can have your adjustable indexing pry bar set that way.
Carlos has 6 point reversible ratcheting wrench that are AMAZING!!!! the open end goes toe to toe with snap on. I've tested the 13mm open end of both extensively on inner tie-rods for alignment.
Cant beat that for $20. Speaking of indexing pry bars. I really like my olsa tools extendable indexing pry bar. It goes from 13-18"
Glad to hear that you like the extendable pry bar so far!
Last Best Tool, cool video keep up the good content
I cut one of my little Titan ratchets after watching your video. I love that thing.
I might try to grind down a handle to fit into leatherman’s bit driver slot. Seems like it should work. Thanks for the comment.
Liquid gun bluing works great for touch ups. Longer you apply, the darker it gets. Follow up with a light hit with 0000 steel wool and oil and looks awesome
I believe Oreillys also carries that Titan pry bar in a 16" for $25 or somewhere close to it. I found a 14" one with a different handle for $16 on Amazon by Purus says the handle is CR-V but it kind of looks like potmetal but you won't find one for a cheaper price.
I love modifying my tool sizes and using heat shrink to soften handles. Even when the mods are unnecessary 😅. It's more just for fun.
Where do you get your heat shrink
The Capri is far too beefy for the leverage U could possibly get off 6" handle. My guess is the design was made with the cheater pipe firmly in mind.
Cut it and thread the end, then the pipe over that could engage the threads as an extension or turn around and thread for storage
OMG😂 'Cut the handles off a pair of pliers then found out they didn't work' Almost as good as when my Boss said hey 'Did I ever tell u the time I set my self on fire when I was grinding?'
I have a 6” or 8” SK hard handle indexing pry bar I scored for like $16, regularly $70ish
Good video, the reinforced hose can be easily installed with applying rubbing alcohol inside and sliding on to the handle,just be sure to let it dry before using.
What pair of pliers do you have in the video? The red ones you picked up? 6:01 timestamp?
Those are the Snap On PWCS9ACF wire strippers.
@@lastbesttool thank you for providing the part number.
I like your cutdown tool. If I was still a cop or soldier that’s about the perfect pocket try tool.
Do we need it? Probably not. But it sure is fun! I also enjoy modifying tools to use them in different ways. Thanks, Doc!
Drill it and tap it to screw on handles or extensions.
just got the new titan stubby adjustable wrench, huge upgrade over the old model, only $11
Fyi that Carlyle (lots of their hand tools are) is on clearance now for $13 before the cyberweek 20% off.
This is for anyone with an opinion. Is a smaller (4-6")indexing prybar any more efficient/useful over a regular prytool/paintscrapper? The longer style pry index tool (30ish-48in extendable) seems to work awesome over the standard 5ft straight pry bar in almost every way for most heavy work applications. I am just unsure about the smaller sizes.
Hell yeah!! That’s awesome!!!
Parrot bar 🤠
no vise? never mind it look great.
You should test to see if its stronger than the Snap-on
SATA seems to have an even better deal for seemingly the same bars on Amazon
Could section it and weld the handle to the pry end.
Ok who made those electrical strippers that are to your right and that you pick up around the 6 min mark?
Those are the Snap On PWCS9ACF wire strippers.
@@lastbesttool got it. I knew they weren’t run of the mill strippers
gear wrench actually makes a really good one that actually extends. I use it at work all the time. P/N 82248
At about the 6:00 minute mark, you say that "If you cut a pair of pliers down to here," indicating that most of the handles would be cut off, "they won't work anymore." Since, in the case of many pliers, that would leave you with something like a Knipex Cobra 125, which work great, I'm inclined to think that you overstated it. Cutting off most of pliers' handles would decrease the power you can apply to them and with them, but they would still function as pliers, now in tight spaces. I did that with a GearWrench, and it worked great. Granted, you picked up a specialty plier, a wire cutter/stripper/crimper, which would need more handle left uncut, but you spoke of pliers generally. Otherwise, super video, and thanks. I'm thinking of cutting down handlees of a non-Knipex brand plier wrench to see if I can get an EDC one of them at less expense. I don't think I can get down to 125, but we'll see. Cheers.
Size Matters: Making and Testing My Own Stubby Tools at Last Best Tool
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The geometry of small and micro pliers is completely different than that of a normal sized pliers whose handles were cut short.
@@lastbesttool Another great video there, thanks. Good variety of tools there, including one pair of pliers, a largish traditional slip-joint, cut ""with the pivot not too far off centre" (~7:50). You make the point there (I'm paraphrasing) that if the pivot point was much less off center, it might have offered much better torque. I wonder if this is what @pubcolize's was getting at about geometry. Different pliers of any set size have remarkably different geometries anyway, so mileage will vary, I'm sure. And as you showed at the end of the stubby tools video, stubby ratchets with similar geometry had very different performance results, so I gather there's even more to it. I'm inclined to think that if I tried to cut down (for example) a 10" Lenox plier wrench, I would get very different results than if I tried to cut down a 10" Maximum brand (Canadian Tire) plier wrench, for geometric and other reasons. You've given me lots to think about before I go ahead and buy tools to cut down. Anyway, that 7" GearWrench waterpump plier that I cut down to about 5", very little padded handle left but good pivot point ratio (about what your video suggested at 8:07, at least 4:1), has been great for me (let me do what I needed to do in a tight space), so I hope more people be creative and adapt tools to their needs. Again, thanks.
You made the right choice i feel like, watching you line em up gonna do half the stubbys handle i was thinking, you could you really even use thay to pry stuff like in real life uses? Theres mo
Nothing to hold onto to pry with lol.
And yeah when the vid started i saw that Carlyle and thought " its the right lengths ( handle and pry head, but the pry head was like 3 times too thick, and the handle was a bit too thick in all the wrong palces to look like it would have been very useful. It looked cool, but if you planned out using it forreal, you needed a better grip to choke up on lol..
And w the titan it was alot better as it was vs the Carlyle imo, the slimmer head is alot more applicable,the notching and designs were ehh but not effecting its functionality. And the slinner handle looked perfect to cut to match the Carlyle length.
Only thing i think i would have done differently, when u were grinding the end down, i would have tried to like slim the whole handle down even more, like the last half of the length, and at the end leave a lil ball or bulb end so u can grip it and have a spot to keep your habd from slippingnoff the backside.
Like how those bit ratchets u chopped down ended up kinda w the bump on the end, just go up like an inch and a half or so and slightly taper it down back towards the end but leave that last bump. But thats just me.
My question for you tho is, what do you see this micro pry bar with much heft in the head being used for? Like i woudk assune you had a few certain tasks in mind?
When you lined them both up and was deciding where to cut the titan, my first thought was if you cut it off after the titan logo and the following numbers on the handle,, aka actually added lie an inch to the Carlyles starting length. That looked like it would have been stubby enough, but still function to uts full capability, but where u ended up looks perfectly fine and functional so what do I know lol
you could plastidip the handle rather than heat shrink it, might be more comfortable
can you swap the heads of the pry bar? They remind me of a flamingo lol
😊
swap the beaks make it a real one of a kind 😁😁
Cheater bar or wrench extender? Good idea with the mod. I bet a 1/2 IP long nipple would fit close for a cheater.
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I love paying yearly subscription fees. We have a couple token machines as well. Every time you program a fob it takes a prepaid token. I have an Autel sitting here I haven't updated. It never ends. :)
The Carlyle looks like a parrot's beak.
Titan must have liked your idea with those custom ratchets. They made a "nano" series and sell them in a pair for around 25 dollars. Titan #11332
I think you might be right! They're not in Titan's 2022 Catalog, nor in the 2023 Supplement. 🙂
Well that’s interesting. Thanks!
Hit it with some cold blue. Heat it, hit it again, heat it and oil soak. That's what I do with modified tools...th-cam.com/video/kkFmpZhp2ZU/w-d-xo.html&pp=iAQB
Carlyle is insanely over priced for a lot of their tools.