Hose clamps

SVcummins

Well-known Member
Anybody make there own pliers for these
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I made one. A cheap pr of pliars. Tack welded the jaw shut and drilled a hole to make the groove.30 years ago and still have them.
 
Take care of those clamps as the new clamps or the rubber boots don't seem to fit tight enough. I have been using regular hose clamps as the new components won't seal. Either the boots diameter has changed or the new clamps don't squeeze enough, from the oem or the injection pump shop.
 
I've always just used a Vise-Grip screwed down enough to hold the clamp firmly. No groove, just hold it cross-ways.
 
I have the Snap on factory pliers but I have also adapted pliers too when I was not around my good ones.

The factory ones I have I bought in a box of stuff 35 years ago at a sale. I think I gave $3 for the entire box.
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Mine, I think, are K-D? They have swiveling ends, with two sizes of grooves, and a locking mechanism. Bought probably 40 years ago when working in a shop.
 
I have 2 types, a standard Snapon set and a BluePoint set. The BluePoints heads swivel to fit different sizes and the handles lock in place so the clamp can?t pop out.
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I bought a pair of those pliers about 50 years ago. Don?t remember where I bought them. No name on them but ?T-81? stamped on them.
 
I have (had) a set that I used to use all the time when I was in "the business" but I can't find them now for the life of me.
 
I just couldn?t see making another trip to town 20 miles and then nobody around here would have them anyway so I figured what better use for a pair of otherwise pretty useless slip joint pliers
 
I applaud your making your own pliers work. Especially if it saved you a trip to town where they more than likely would not have had them anyway.

I just posted the picture so guys could see what the factory ones look like. I see them sell at yards sales and auctions for a few dollars as most do not know what they are anymore.

Keep up the ingenuity!!!!
 
"I don't. I get rid of those type hose clamps."

Yep. Can't throw them far enough or fast enough.
 
They hold their tension in hot or cold situations whereas a screw type digs into hose and loses tension. IH had a few engine failures due to this and went to a special clamp that had additional piece in clamp to prevent diffing into hose and losing tension. On small hoses like fuel return lines or heater hoses the spring type are far superior to screw type.
 
"whereas a screw type digs into hose and loses tension"

I believe you are referring to the worm gear type screw clamps here.
Yes, they do tend to dig into the hose. Those aren't the style I normally use.
I have to think that a decent hose would make up for most of that give.
Maybe cheap hoses and fittings require cheap clamps? I can't say.
 
I?d have gladly bought a set but around here if it?s more complicated than a combination wrench set nobody carries it
 
I have a set here someplace with the swiveling ends but they will not lock in place. I have not used them in years, got them around 45 years ago just for the clamps on fertilizer tubes on corn planter but have not used a planter for 10? years now as no longer farm. So no use for them.
 

I had never seen that type of hose clamp until I bought a new 1965 Dodge. I replaced hose clamps with the screw type, but first bought a new pair of the hose clamp pliers like the one oa the right. It was some inexpensive US made type, but it worked well. I still have it. Didn't use it enough to wear it out.

A couple of years ago I was in a pawn shop looking at their tool bin. I spotted a pair of the hose clamp pliers, and then another guy looking at tools picked it up and I told him the story abut buying the pliers years ago, He asked if I still had any good Mopars and I told him I had my mothers 1966 Dodge. He wound up buying it. It's now in a good home and fire or thieves wont get it.

KEH
 

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