Review (2/5): Whoa, not what I expected
I can't believe all the high mark reviews for these: These clips are a mess! For reference, I purchased the 20 PCS 19" set (2 @ 10 pack). Let me outline what the issues are:
- First thing is trying to squeeze to open - the outside rubber is highly oiled, loose, and therefore just rotates around and one can't grip on the clip to open. I tried to stabilize with my other hand and the inside clip just rotates away instead of opening even with 2 hands. Almost impossible to open! I am not clumsy or incompetent and tout myself as pretty handy and capable yet these things are flawed right from the start. I wrestle with just trying to use a simple alligator clip and it floors me that the main purpose of these do not work right.
- Some of the clips just don't close properly. The springs are cheap and so forget clipping on a fine wire like a resistor with the ones that won't close properly. I use the flawed ones that don't close all the way on a larger item like my multimeter leads. See photo
- None of these are soldered like many other reviews state. They are crimped. See photo
- The jaws are rough cut and work fine (when you finally get them opened) for larger items but for smaller and very thin items (think resistors) they are not what you want. See photo where I had to bend the resistor wire to get it to stay in the jaws.
While these are inexpensive and fine for the non-discerning use they are by no means competent and have serious flaws that prevent one from using these on many fine and detailed projects. Since there are so many 5 star reviews I can only think the use case would be not for electronics projects and perhaps a set once and forget use?!?