Knuckle Bender Adjustable Wrench Tool for Residential Door Hinges - Hinge Pliers with Ergonomic Grip for Quick, Easy Hinge Adjustments

Worked well for intended purpose

very similar to FastCap's Knucklebender except without the pin remover. Decent quality, more cost effective

I'm both a graduate degree'd engineer who greatly appreciates well designed tools and also the owner of a handyman business who uses his tools daily to earn a living. With that as background ... I've been adjusting doors by bending hinge knuckles for a couple of years. For most of that time my tool of choice for this job was a small pair of Knipex Cobra pliers with bicycle inner tube rubber slipped over the jaws to reduce scratching on the hinge. Fairly recently I got a dedicated tool for this job that's shown in my attached photo. This tool is CNC milled from a solid billet of aluminum and has done a decent job the handful of times I've used it. I wanted to try this "adjustable wrench" style knuckle bender by Finsbury for a couple of reasons, namely that the CNC'ed tool is slow to use due to needing to clamp it onto each knuckle to be adjusted by tightening an allen screw and the tool itself is both short and uncomfortable to use due to the many sharp edges. The Finsbury knuckle adjuster appears to be a standard mid-quality adjustable wrench that's had its' jaws profiled to fit on a residential hinge knuckle. It's very quick and easy to adjust onto a knuckle, the tool-dip handle is very comfortable in use and the length is more than sufficient for the job of bending an individual hinge knuckle. To use this tool the hinge pin must be removed and knuckles bent individually, while many similar tools slip over the entire hinge and bend all the knuckles at once. Bending the knuckles individually takes more time, but puts far less stress on the user of the tool, the hinge, the door jam and the door. I definitely prefer the one knuckle at a time approach. The Finsbury knuckle bender appears to have started life as a mid-quality adjustable wrench that's had it's jaws reworked to fit a residential hinge. Although this level of build quality would bother me in an adjustable wrench, it's more than adequate for the job of bending hinge knuckles. Really my only nit to pick with this tool is the price, which is perfectly reasonable for a tool of this quality and the function performed, but there are very similar famous name brand tools with additional functionality (a hinge pin remover) available for about $1 more. Still, this is a better than decent tool at a decent price that'll get the job done.

So simple to adjust any regular door hinges ! Impressed with one day delivery.

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