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Looking for a QUALITY Tweezer
Posted by I make stuff on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:59 PM

I bought a Harbor Freight tweezer assortment, they work OK at best.  For very fine PE and detail work, the tips are not well aligned, and they are essentailly useless.

I found a decent broad, square, macined tip set at the drugstore, but I also need to find a set with a narrow tip, and am not having any luck. I have looked at Michaels, the drug store, and the big box home center.

Anyone have a recommendation?

 

Thanks

Bill  

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: Central CA
Posted by Division 6 on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:41 PM

I picked up a needle nosed type in the tool coral at OSH.

Nice fine tip for tiny PE peices.

 

Eric... 

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    October 2006
  • From: Rochester, NY
Posted by silentmodeler on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:56 PM
you can always try the beauty area in stores  sometimes they do have point nosed typed.  it works best for me.  or check out ur local hobby store and have them order what u need.
"Do, do not, theres no try" ~Yoda
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    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:36 PM

Look for Excelta brand tweezers, these are production quality units...

 

Your local retailer can get these through their distributor stocking Xuron products.

 Xuron Catalog

 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    October 2005
  • From: Maryland
Posted by usmc1371 on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:45 PM
I like Tamiya's tweezers.  Not the craft ones, but the HG ones. 
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:00 AM

If money is not an issue then these are unsurpased:

http://www.tdiinternational.com/tweezers.html

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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  • From: Tacoma, WA
Posted by CuriousG on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:09 PM

If you want tweezers for picking up small parts I recommend the La Cross brand Tini-Tweeze. They are stainless steel, have a sharp point and are durable. Best part, you can get them at Walmart in the beauty section for about $6.00. I have two on my bench and use them constantly. I haven't found a hobby-specific tweezer that worked any better. Great for PE.

George Ireland

"If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."  - Ashleigh Brilliant

JML
  • Member since
    February 2008
  • From: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Posted by JML on Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:40 PM

Erem tweezers are superb.  Excellent stainless steel, several tip shapes, and the most comfortable handles in the business.  Available from many electronics and tool dealers online.

 

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Posted by Satori on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:36 PM
 JML wrote:

Erem tweezers are superb.  Excellent stainless steel, several tip shapes, and the most comfortable handles in the business.  Available from many electronics and tool dealers online.

 

You know your tools!

Erem makes the best tweezers and diagonal cutters hands down.

The neverust hawkeye mentioned are good too

I also like some General Tool products, they cheap.

Tamiya tweezers are made of cheap materials, soft tips.

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    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 8:17 PM
 Satori wrote:
 JML wrote:

Erem tweezers are superb.  Excellent stainless steel, several tip shapes, and the most comfortable handles in the business.  Available from many electronics and tool dealers online.

 

You know your tools!

Erem makes the best tweezers and diagonal cutters hands down.

The neverust hawkeye mentioned are good too

I also like some General Tool products, they cheap.

Tamiya tweezers are made of cheap materials, soft tips.

What about the brand that I posted a link to?

http://www.tdiinternational.com/tweezers.html

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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Posted by Satori on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 8:54 PM
Hi Mike.

Those ceramic tip tweezers are way out of my (and perhaps most modelers') price range. They're around 50 dollar each, and tip replacements for half of that.

We used to have some at work, for working on prototype IC boards. The tips are over hardened and not very ideal for these applications. IMO, the best tweezers for modelers are correctly treated steel / alloy.
  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Austin, Texas
Posted by Lt. Zogg on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:41 PM

The best pair of tweezers I've ever had came from a beauty store called Sephora.  About $18, but they are fantastic!  I always say yes when my girlfriend asks if I want to go there with her.  They've got lots of other cool stuff I've made into modelling tools.

Jeff

JML
  • Member since
    February 2008
  • From: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Posted by JML on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 4:40 PM

The TDI look very much like some ergonomic tweezers sold under the Excelta brandname, another Swiss brand of electronic pliers and tweezers.  Given the way things work these days, it's entirely possible that most of the very high quality tweezers come from a small number of factories.  Several of the high-quality European tool manufacturers source parts of their lineup from other firms; Wiha does this, for example. 

Kind of like the cheap tools from China rebranded for retail sales, only at a far higher quality level.

The electronic supply sites often carry a wide range of tweezers, miniature pliers, and other tools for work on very small components.  The prices vary, so it's worth it to shop around.  And some offer periodic sales that are quite significant.

You can get non-magnetic stainless tools, and you can get a magnetizer/demagnetizer from Wiha and other sources.

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