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  2. Locking pliers - Wikipedia

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    Locking pliers (also called Vise-Grips, Mole wrench or Mole grips) are pliers that can be locked into position, using an "over-center" cam action. Locking pliers are available with many different jaw styles, such as needle-nose pliers, wrenches, clamps and various shapes to fix metal parts for welding.

  3. Thomas Coughtrie - Wikipedia

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    Mole branded Self-grip wrench locking pliers. Thomas Robb Coughtrie (25 November 1917 – 27 August 2008) was a chartered engineer from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.. He was credited by The Times as the inventor of the self-grip Mole wrench [1] although this conflicts with other sources which show the invention of the Vise-Grip locking pliers [2] in Nebraska, United States, with an ...

  4. Tongue-and-groove pliers - Wikipedia

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    The lower jaw can be moved to a number of positions by sliding along a tracking section under the upper jaw. An advantage of this design is that the pliers can adjust to a number of sizes without the distance in the handle growing wider. These pliers often have long handles—commonly 240 to 300 mm (9.5 to 12 inches) long—for increased leverage.

  5. Channellock - Wikipedia

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    Channellock is an American company that produces hand tools. It is best known for its pliers—the company manufactures more than 75 types and sizes of pliers [1] —particularly its eponymous style of tongue-and-groove, slip-joint pliers. [2]

  6. Chuck (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    A drill chuck is a specialised self-centering, three-jaw chuck, usually with capacity of 0.5 in (13 mm) or less, and rarely greater than 1 in (25 mm), used to hold drill bits or other rotary tools. This type of chuck is used on tools ranging from professional equipment to inexpensive hand and power drills for domestic use.

  7. Retaining ring - Wikipedia

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    Self-locking ring - does not require a groove [7] Split ring (also known as an X-washer) - fits into external grooves and is closed with a pair of pliers [9] Low clearance ring (also known as a crescent ring) [8] Spirolox Retaining Rings (also known as a Spiral Rings) [10] C-ring [11]