The Secret Vise Grip Trick not many know about

Cool!🍻

my job gave me a set of these 5 years ago and i have not used them even 1 time because I didn't know how LOL thank you

Why do people use vise-grips for this kind of thing? Wouldn't a clamp hold better and be smaller and more out of the way?

Cool beans! Did not know, thank you!

That is the first time I have ever heard about that. I am going to use your information the next time I using vise grips. Thank you very much it was very useful.

That was very tricky :) My vice grips are pretty cheap and they don't have that wrench hole :( . . . . but now I know and can inform others if they have fancier ones ;) Thank you!

Unessassary bullcrap

I use them for steps as a ladder when climbing Ladda's towers when doing transmission power lines

Yeah.. YOU may be using them wrong. As a matte rof fact, you are.

Never seen one like that, never needed it either.

This is a new feature from vise grips. No biggie.

That was definitely an attractive feature when I decided to buy some Malco Eagle Grip locking pliers. My vintage Petersons and Vise Grips didn't have it.

its more then 18 years i use this tool now i have come to know how to use it thank you so much

Thanks, Bud. I learned something new ... I'm 72

I did not know about this. Thanks. However, mine don't have that Allen wrench hole, and I have several pairs in different sizes.

None of my vise grips have that.

Mine doesnt have it.....

as long as I dont get pinched they worked great

i have 10 12 pair in my box not one of them has that style bolt in it

love it

You can also use a bolt of the proper size, thread and length and use a wrench, socket, allen wrench, etc. to tighten it up. Threaded rod or all thread (whatever you want to call it) with sufficient length with some type of weight that fits over the rod and using nuts and washers the weight cannot fit over can be used on vise grips to be used as a slide hammer.

I certainly didn’t know…. Thanks

Not all visegrips have this. What you really need for gripping a flat piece of metal is some flat jaw visegrips. The rounded jaws are for bolts, nuts and pipe.

I took the bolt out and put an eyebolt in. You can use about anything to tighten it up plus You can hang them up.

This 'after the fact' tightening of the vice grips adjustment screw does not seem to be a worthwhile feature.
\It is easy to adjust a vice grips by hand before clamping to provide desired clamping force without the use of an extra tool (allen wrench).

My milwaukee vise has rubber grips and it dont have that at the bottom 😪

Wow! I never knew this. Thank you for sharing and informing many of us!

Never knew

None of my vice grips have this hex, maybe it's time to flatten the round bolt into a hex nut?

So this is BS right? Where do I get the new part to go in my tool?

What about an Irwin vice grip? Top tightening screw is bald.

I had no idea how to use

If the Vise-Grip pliers you own don't have the hex recess, just get a stainless steel Allen bolt (socket head cap screw) the same length as the factory screw and install it. Or just a hex head bolt. The thread for the 7 inch Vise-Grip pliers is 5/16-18, for the 10 inch Vise-Grip pliers, use a 7/16-14 bolt. If you want to get fancy, grind down or use a lathe to reduce the tip to a dog point the size of the factory screw, but I did this on my 7" Vise-Grips and didn't need to modify the Allen bolt.

Its actually a safety feature on some new models to help release jammed shut pliers

Lead mechanic comes into view, and says: sir?..sir?.. your cars all set!

I just learn something new today. Thank you so much. 😊

😂😂😂 This feature hasn't hit my country yet.

I'd guess, this was his April first fool video.
And whilst everybody went through their toolboxes to find nothing, he was laughing all day 🤣

I have 4, or 5 pairs of vice grips, none of them have that.

Here's another "secret"
A much easier way to open them when they're clamped down: Use that lever behind the handle to pry them open.

I find it highly unlikely that that hex hole is there to tighten the locking pliers, if anything its there to help release an overly tight pair of locking pliers. Of the OP was using the correct locking pliers he would have had a much easier time of getting a tight fit. He was using a curved jaw locking pliers on a flat piece of metal, the curved jaw is for rounded items like pipe, a straight jaw "Vice Grip" would have been the proper tool to use. Seeing as how the OP doesn't even know what is the proper tool to use I would take all info in the video with a grain of salt.

That's fine if you're in a hurry but that hole is more useful to LOOSEN the death grip from the work piece. Link to the user manual is missing.

Did not know this! Still learning.

Been doing mechanic work at 28 yrs and never saw a vice grip with an Allan key slot lol. But we learn something everyday...thanks for the video

This only works if they have that option in the back of it.

I'm 51 and this is the first time I've seen a paid of vice grips with that hex head in the end of it..none of mine have it.

None of my (3) vice grip pliers have an opening for the Allen wrench (i.e., they're all covered; but after reading some of the comments I see where the newer ones do).

The original Vise Grips made in Dewitt, NE did not have this hex “Allen” key feature on the adjustment screw. Since the patent expired many years ago, everyone seems to be making these “Locking”pliers. At a testing lab, it was determined that the original Vice Grips had a clamping force of 1 ton, 2,000 pounds when snapped closed. When you look at the Vice Grip, the two clamping jaws and the body of the tool form a triangle, the strongest geometric figure. I met the grandson of the inventor and he told me that his grandfather invented the Vice Grip because he was a blacksmith and that he would hold the blacksmith tongs tightly and it caused him to develop what we know today is carpal tunnel syndrome.

That allen head is the dumbest idea. I have never needed that feature, ever nor would I fiddle with that. There's no way you can get that as tight as I can with lever action alone, the leverage is all wrong. But I will have to buy a newer pair of pliers to test that out now.
Use one hand to hold it so jaws make contact then turn knob until the lever is just within your grip strength to squeeze it locked, done. No need to awkwardly trial and error microadjust it off the piece.

🤣 if it ain't broke don't fix it!

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