I recently received a nice package from E14:
Of all these items my favorite items are the Knipex pliers. They are mostly cutters and so far I'm very happy with them as they appear to be very high quality and well built. Lets take a closer look at them.
These cutters have a longer handle, use a coiled spring and have an opening limiter mechanism. Cutting with them is effortless, these are the kind of pliers I would first chose to cut electronic component leads. The only difference between these 4 cutters is that gray ones have ESD protection, and that the bigger ones can cut through bigger diameters.
Then we have the rest of the pliers with shorter curved handles:
Here are some close-ups of their jaws:
This one is really nice, it contains a "lead-catcher", which is a mechanism that keeps the cutted lead stuck until you open the grips:
This one is interesting, the cutting piece is made of a different material, which I suspect is tungsten carbide. The hard cutting piece cut even piano strings (which are very hard):
Of all the pliers these two are the only one that are not cutters, and are what I would use to bend wires:
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