Spring-loaded Pliers: Yay or Nay?

Do you like spring-loaded pliers on a multitool?

  • Springs

    Votes: 12 52.2%

  • No springs

    Votes: 11 47.8%
  • Total voters
    23
hsherzfeld

hsherzfeld

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My first multitool was a Leatherman Sidekick, which I carried and used on my high school robotics team and in college. It was a great entry-level multitool. I've since replaced it with a Wave and then a Wave+, but every now and then I find myself missing the Sidekick's spring-loaded pliers. The spring tension was perfect: just enough to spring the jaws open, but not enough to make the pliers hard to close. I wish Leatherman had added springs to the pliers when they released the Wave+.

What do y'all think? Spring-loaded pliers? Yay or nay?
 
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Including multitools I have about 50 pairs of pliers and aside from the few pairs that require a springer to function, the leatherman squirt is my only spring loaded pair of pliers.
I don't mind it with the squirt, but in general I just don't really like spring loaded pliers.
 
I don’t like spring pliers I remove spring if pliers come with them I have several pair that are riveted together and had a spring in the pivot that took some work to get the spring out. I’m sure I have over a hundred pliers and about 10 percent came with spring.
 
Depends. I like them when doing continuous cutting like cutting some chicken fence to right size but not when I need to put down the pliers on table for instance and pick it up constantly (stitching leather).
 
Yes from me to break the tie (4:3 now).
 
I LOVE the spring loaded plier in my squirt. Really handy when using them as small forceps or tweezers. I go with a vote for springs.
 
Every time I pull out my pliers with springs some workman or electrician tries to steal them. No kidding.
 
I miss my spring-loaded Sidekick, but I just had an experience that demonstrated the downside of spring-loaded pliers/scissors/jaw tools in general. A storm brought down a tree limb in our backyard, and I used a pair of small, spring-loaded gardening shears to cut off the foliage before I sawed the limb into smaller pieces. Man oh man, those shears were annoying!
 
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