Thursday, July 4, 2024

Leverage tools Inc. Lever Wrench


  A variation on the Vise grip (or Mole grips) made in the mid-sixties, purporting to automatically adjust to the right size, I find they don't grip tight enough to be really useful... 


 
Patent

2 comments:

meddleshop said...

several companies sold versions of this, all kind of poorly functioning. I've never seen one worn out like vise grips get from constant use. I have a Proto version that is about half again as long as a vise grip with a huge blue knob on the end, really clumsy, never used it in 40+ years.

Dave said...

I've got that one, a needle-nose, and oddly a flat-clamp version and they all have the orange plastic-dip coating (to pretty to pass up at a garage sale lol). You have to turn that little thumbscrew to adjust them and that just abrades my fingertips so I never use them, but now that I know they're supposed to self-adjust I plan to revisit them. When I tried them I was probably adjusting the screw too much because I thought they were like regular vise-grips.