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Edit: Do the tips touch on yours, that's hard to see in your pic. On mine the very point of the tip touches, while there's a small gap on the rest of the pliers (like in your pic).Second edit: Damn this is hard to see, just checked again and turns out that the tip doesn't touch, it's the back of the pliers that actually touch. Discovered this when I tried to pull out a hair on my arm with it, couldn't pinch it with the tip, but pulled it out with the back of the plier tip (I hope this makes sense...).
When I got my EvoWood S557 the pliers are all messed up, with gunk metal in the gripper parts of the pliers, and nothing worked. Was another issue iirc but don't remember. Sent it in for warranty repair and think it took a month to get it back, as Wenger was transitioning at the time, moving offices, departments, something. Never used the slip-jointed pliers for anything. They seem more like gimmicks than being useful for anything. Even the open ended wrench is useless. It does not have a 3/8 inch opening on the end. If it did it would of gotten some use.
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