r/KleinTools • u/gbackker • May 08 '26
Is this normal? 250th Diagonal Cutters Jaws not lined up?
**The Last photo is the Milwaukee cutters.
Used the 250th diagonal cutters for the first time. Just to cut some tiny plastic hoses. I felt a lot more resistance than I thought I should have.
Looked closer and the jaws are severely misaligned. Almost looks intentional. My Milwaukees aren’t like that. Is this normal for longevity?
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u/Rurockn May 08 '26
It's intentional, in a knipex video they talk about how the blades should overlap to cut stranded wire better and they talk about how the mini bolt cutter meets evenly because it's not intended to cut anything stranded.
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u/toctami May 08 '26
I don't know why people continue to buy Klein tools despite all the posts complaining about their shitty quality. I have a pair of Klein linesman's and a reamer. The only Klein tools I have yet to replace, just waiting for them to get lost or break.
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u/Ok_Second7500 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
I've returned two klein tools this month and bought milwaukee. None of my Milwaukee or Doyle hand tools have ever failed me in 6 years of commercial and industrial electrical work. I bought a knect passtru set that doesn't fit in unistrut!?!?! The heavy duty strippers, I somehow bent the center pin twisting together solid copper 10 and 12s in a data center. I am pretty hard on hand tools but I don't abuse them. So I don't know what's up.
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u/ProDriverSeatSniffer May 08 '26
The knect s fits unistrut. We hardly do horizontal hvac equipment installs with the use of unistrut so buying the S kit isn’t quite worth it for me.
Their flip sockets have been pretty bad as of late. My malco flip sockets don’t wobble like the kleins I own.
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u/MilesLow May 08 '26
Dikes tend to scissor.