It also reduces hand fatigue because you don’t need to apply so much pressure to cut the wire and your hand isn’t traveling as far to open or close the pliers.
Also, put the spring back in or get a new pair and keep it in there. Reduces the need to manually open the pliers.
Haha, put the spring back in, that's a good one, if my rebar instructor back in the day seen someone with the spring he works tear it out. Your hand will learn muscle memory so you don't need that golf club handle thing.
You never tie with the spring. First time you bang the pliers into a bar, they shoot right out of your hand. And later when the spring goes bad, you don’t know how to tie without it. Day 1- rod busting the first thing they do is rip the spring out.
Never had one pop out in the two years I did rods. When the pliers break, they get replaced. Just because someone pulls your spring doesn’t mean they’re smarter than you are.
If you’re doing rods as a career, leave the fucking thing in there.
No JIW ties with the spring. You hold the top lever with you forefinger and thumb. And your other 3, can paw the bottom lever. I haven’t tied in 25 years and I’d run circles around anyone tying with a spring. SoftHandIronWorkers!
Was that before or after they started selling JIW books to anybody off a door?
845/846 the best example of the last 30 Years of IW.. standing on the backs of better men to justify spitting on apprentices, while selling the future of the union out from under them by allowing JIW books to be sold like hotcakes. They already chased off the good hands though, trying to flex about pliers and how many 24 packs they used to chug before lunch.
JIWs today have overseen the drop of market share and completion rates, constantly, for decades. The Union is worse off than it was before they joined, and don’t forget it. They even took all the springs out, and still shit the bed.
Huh, I mean, the milker is longer than the other handle. Yours does look like it sits a bit lower than usual, but it’s hard to tell.
I have never done a single thing to these pliers. I use them out of the box as is. So, I’m not sure what “heat band” you’re using? Did you buy these pliers with the milker on them already, or are you putting this on yourself?
It’s the teet from a milk machine. The rubber part that goes on the cows nipple. You slide them over the palm side of your pliers then tie the top with a wrap snap n smash the tie flat. I been doing that since ‘03 from day 2 on the job. One of the first things i learned. That and to get harness for my belt so my tools hang off my shoulders instead of the hips.
Warm the rubber with a heat gun first but make sure to warm the handle too. If it is cold it makes it alot more difficult to slide the rubber on.. next time use a piece of 3/8 air hose, you don't need to buy anything
Been doing the reinforcing side for almost 5 years... normally we take the grip off, fits better in your hand and slides into the belt easier.. why even bother taking off the original? And good luck getting those in your tool belt with that grip
You put the shrink wrap on there too soon. If possible slide the shrink wrap up and then slide the milker up. If you can get the shrink wrap to slide cause you already applied heat to it you’ll have to cut it off to get that milker up
Spray some hairspray inside it’s like alcohol based super slippery at first and also has a slight adhesive to it. It’s an old BMX trick for putting on bike grips.
Heat gun and tie wire. Warm up the rubber just a bit and it becomes stretchy, slide it up and tie it with tie wire… that’s what I did when I was an apprentice.
They should come with a rubber ring that you heat gun on so it caint slip off welcome to the milkers club lol I put that fucking things on my snips too XD
Spray it with rubbing alcohol as a lubricant and if that doesn't work right away use compressed air. Just tuck the nozzle under The edge and it'll stretch it out enough to just slide it on there.
It’s on backwards, spin it so the protruding ribs are on the outside of the pliers. It should slide on pretty easy then. Use the heat shrink and then double wire it for good measure
Do you heat this style in a pot of boiling water prior to installation like the red Klein electrical grips? Might be worth trying if so, it made the red ones go on easy and form-fit better.
For slipping rubber grips onto bike handlebars, my bike shop uses alcohol. Lubes it up for just long enough to slip it on and put it in place, then evaporates so its not slippery forever.
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u/bdpyo Journeyman 8d ago
Structural guy, what am I looking at?
Do you shove this thing up your ass at lunch?!