I have some thick fingers that sometime make holding small screws and nuts in place long enough to screw them when assembling items. This tool is the 4ln, meaning it is 4 inches long.

This is a light duty tool meant for tightly gripping things that you would otherwise have trouble holding with small pair of needlenose pliers. The alignment on the pair that i got is pretty good and i am satisfied that they flex back into their origi...  Read More

The jaws are misaligned. They fail whenever you need to grip something straight on, in a twisting motion, they slip off the nut. The leg of the moving jaw comes out just by moving the handles.

All of the irwin pseudo-vice-grips cannot be compared to the original made by petersen manufacturing (in the '80s) even the stamped product name is ugly.

It was made too tight. Had to bent apart to use. There was a lot of rust internally of it. The mechanism had been rusted shut due to poor storage conditions.

It is advertised as 4. There is nothing about it that is 4! It is smaller than i expected it to be, kind of flimsy. These are tiny, not the size i was expecting.

These pliers are absolutely awful. They almost belong in a toybox not a toolbox. Despite oiling and keeping in a tool box, these pliers rust easily.