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No, I just have the regular/original kind. I've been told by others that the needle nose are near useless and that they don't really lock on to anything the way the originals do. No real experience with the clamp.
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YES!!! Needle nose, Square jaws and Clamp??? style.
No, I just have the regular/original kind. I've been told by others that the needle nose are near useless and that they don't really lock on to anything the way the originals do. No real experience with the clamp.
-Emt1581
That's plain silly, don't believe everything you hear...
Most every tool has a unique suitability for some purpose.
I used the so-called 'needle nose' Irwin V-G's for a unique task just the other day.
A couple years ago Irwin started producing V-G's in Asia. There was a heads up post here to get the US made ones while you could. Guess what I did?
I have a SHTF Tacticool Technical BOB Toolkit in a County Comm pouch that is really...
...uh, tacticool.
I've been meaning to post pix of it...
The smallest needle-nosed VG is an integral part of it.
Also, IMHO, avoid the V-G's with the plastic covered handles, unless there is a good reason not to.
Sitting in the [ant infested
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] container right now, and looked in the small tool cabinet to the left of the computer 'desk' and there is a large V-G [7WR, with the plastic on the handles ---ugh] and a pair of the smaller [6lc] with a sort of combo needle-nose and 'large' open round area... like this...
Vice grips are generally a crude tool when you have an array of the proper sockets and wrenches, etc, available. [I do] But if you can't carry that array, V-G's can be a life saver.
A critical component of some survival kits.
Vise Grip mfgr's several V-G's with cheesy additional tools on the handles like multi-tools have.