Milwaukee Pliers Wrench, 250 mm, Smooth Jaws, 4932501150

Milwaukee 250 mm Pliers Wrench with Smooth Jaws, 4932501150

4932501150 is a 250 mm Milwaukee pliers wrench - it grips nuts and pipe fittings with smooth parallel jaws rather than teeth. Capacity runs to 57 mm, and the setting changes from a button on the tool, without letting go of the handles.

Between a wrench and water pump pliers

A pliers wrench sits between an adjustable spanner and water pump pliers. The jaws stay parallel at every setting and close flat on the faces of a nut, so the load sits on the flats rather than the corners. The action is self-tightening - force on the handles becomes clamping pressure at the jaws, so the harder the grip, the firmer the hold. That is what undoes a tight fitting without reaching for a new spanner at every size.

Why the jaws are smooth

The gripping faces carry no teeth, which is why the tool belongs on chrome and polished work - traps, plated pipe, coated fittings, tap tails. The toothed strip in the middle of the tool is the adjustment rack, not the jaw; what touches the work is smooth metal.

Push-button adjustment and ratcheting

Opening is set with a push-button quick adjust, worked by the thumb of the hand already holding the tool: slide the jaw to the nut and release the button. Turning then gives a ratcheting action - the handles relax and come back for the next bite without lifting the tool off the nut. In a tight space, where a spanner has nowhere to be pulled off and turned over, that matters.

Scale, capacity and handles

The jaw is marked with imperial graduations from 1/2" to 2 1/4", so the size is set in one go, not by trial and error. Maximum capacity is 57 mm, covering pipe nuts, fittings and hex sizes to two and a quarter inches. The handles are dipped, with a rubberised coating over the lower section where the hand sits.

Technical specifications

In the pack

• 1 x Milwaukee 250 mm pliers wrench (4932501150), in a carded blister pack

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