I like my Klein pliers. I buy white lightning dry chain lube and I use that on all my pliers. It is a wax based lube dissolved in some kind of solvent so you squirt that into the pivot work it around and let it dry and it won't get your hands or the customers furnishings greasy.
As far as screwdrivers I quit buying their screwdrivers because I just don't like them.
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Dont take them back, I've always used kline plyers, they are tight, but if you take them and work them back and forth under really hot water they will loosen up, it takes some time doing it, but they will get loose and your helper will love them and never look back, use some kroil oil on them after the hot water, they will get loose

 

I'll have to give that a try.

 

I have a lot of their hand tools. Love all them. If I’m thinking of the tool your referencing, I hate that tool. Crimper at the very end and wire stripper between the handle? Think the grip is red??? Maybe blue????

I have the wire strippers on the end and crimper on the inside and love those. I also have dedicated crimper with red handles. I switched to using those for making crimps these days and quit using my stripper/crimper years ago. Just the ergonomics of each tool made me switch


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I haven't had much issue. Just use em and work with em and they loosen up nicely.

 

I like em tight! After you work em they loosen up to the perfect tightness! You want a stripper tight. It works better that way.

 

[emoji1787] that just sounds kind of funny.

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I may not have expressed myself clearly. I like a tight fit, but these are way beyond that. They literally take two hands to open and after lubing and flexing them over two days off and on if anything they are worse.

 

Sadly we live in a global economy and many companies like Klein don't even make their own tools. They simply buy from 1 factory in China who happily prints their company name on the handles and then Klein sells it for 20x more than they paid for it. Thus you have severe quality control issues...... I saw Klein was selling a square bluetooth speaker a couple years ago for $40 bucks. It worked nice and was water proof, but it was actually made by Acorn in China and rebranded. I like the speaker a lot so I bought the Acorn for just $15 bucks