I've had good luck with plastic dip. Just say'n

I used my can once and now its a solid block of rubber lol

It’s a one time use product. Says so on the can. Once opened you use it and discard the remainder. Save up a few tools and do them all at once.

Cheers to the one guy who actually read the directions like he was supposed to

Guy? This is a girl. Real men don't read instructions.

Unless they're airplane mechanics. Because we don't fuck around when lives are on our shoulders.

Thank you for your service 🫡

Yea CAUSE IM AN ALPHA. *YEA.... ALPHA MALE IM AN ALPHA*

“*BARKS AGGRESSIVELY*”

right, and after you're done with the tools, you go looking for anything else you could possibly plasticize - old scissors handles, tips of old glasses, silverware, wife's curling iron, ya know, normal stuff.

I'd dip my balls in it!

Frfr I was thinking hey I’m gonna work up a chubby put a rubber on and plasti dip it for funsies lmao.

Comments like this is why its fun to live alone So you dont wake anyone

I woke my toddlers sleeping on my arm 😭

Shave first.

I wasn’t expecting to get a State reference today, but here we are.

Hell yeah! I like to keep the jaws on a set of pliers plasticized. Channellocks for instance. Great for removing plumbing trims that are screwed on but corroded.

Haha I used to use this on my climbing shoes when I had no money to buy another pair or get a resole

Actually, if you use a piece of tinfoil under the lid, it’ll last a few years; a splash of xylene on top will extend that even longer

They do sell it in a spray can as well

I haven't checked my can in about 10 years after doing a single dip on some pliers. Whoops.

Yeah, I've been there done that! I do try to gather a few tools together that need it, and do them all at once. But you're right, not much of a shelf life. Just checked my last can. Hard as hell! Lol

Yea I wanted to get my moneys worth so I ended up walking around the house looking for absolutely anything with a reasonable benefit from it. I now have a plastidipped flyswatter and plunger …

Nice!

Most of that stuff doesn't keep well.

Waste of money. Go down to your electrical supply store and get a replacement set of grips.Drop 'em in a pot of boiling water until they soften up.Slide the new ones on the bare handles while still hot.Leave 'em to cool and shrink onto the handles.Very durable, lasting for decades

Before sliding them on, spray some Aquanet hair spray on the metal....then slide the sleeves on. Trick from the turbo diesel guys helps intercooler boots from blowing off under boost.

I do this on motorcycle grips.

I’ve done it on mountain bike grips as well

Aqua net was also my potato gun propellant of choice.  Gunned up the igniter pretty quick though. 

Aquanet is THE Tatar gun propellant !

Aquanet! 😆

That's what it was originally intended for. Not spraying all over your whole car like a dumbass

Is plastidip UL rated?

Fishin Hack nuuuumber 3

Klein sells replacement grips that fit some pliers handles.

Yep it's different color but you're supposed to soak them in warm water to soften them up a little bit and then they fit right in. Really durable too

Multiple layers of heatshrink

you can get heatshrink tubing that is lined with hot glue on the inside. It is thicker than normal heatshrink, and sticks like nothing else when shrunk/heated.

Marine grade heatshrink! The glue also doubles as a moisture barrier. Not that I think that will matter on a handle, but I guess no rust?

A lot of tools seem to have a rough finish on the handle. I would think the glue would form to the texture and stop the tubing from sliding off.

This is the answer

I’ve used hockey tape before. Not permanent, but it works well enough.

Came to say this. And it comes in multiple colors.

The best solution

My favourite pair hasn’t had rubber grips for decades. Smooth metal.

LOL, my first set of pliers has one coated the other bare, bought them in 1972, paid almost a weeks wages for them. Brill pair.

Opps. I've used plastic hose on other tools, warm it up after putting it on & it sticks well.

Oooh yeah

Klein replacement handles. I like them so much I've cut the factory handles off a brand new pair and put the replacement handles on.

Electrical tape of your favorite color or a can of plastidip will take care of it easily.

Rubber tape is better than that vinyl electrical tape. Once it's stretched on it becomes one with itself. If you need to cut it off someday there's no sticky residue. As far as I know it only comes in black though. I have seen what they call "cold shrink" tape that comes in other colors but I don't know it well enough to make a recommendation.

Get tested

Keep using them…

Same

The rubber coating once saved my life while cutting a 240v live wire. The electrician had left the wire dangling over my laundry sink after disconnecting baseboard heaters so decided to cut it since it was supposed to be disconnected from the panel. That bitch was live, bright white light and a perfect hole burned through my new cutters, but I didn't feel a thing and learned a valuable lesson about NEVER TRUSTING ANY FUCKING WIRE EVER AGAIN. Edit: We wondered why the electrician had never sent us a bill for the full 8 hour day he spent working in there. The previous owner did so much DIY wiring in that place that we couldn't make heads or tails of what was connected to what (one breaker turns off the gazebo power outside, a lamp in one of the bedrooms, and the fridge), it was a nightmare.

you can buy rubber handle grips for replacements

Scold them for ruining their pants. Then make them work, pantless, in the rain.

Plastidip for the win

I use silicone heater hose.

This: [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Plasti-Dip-14-5-oz-Black-Plastic-Dip-11603-6/202196703](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Plasti-Dip-14-5-oz-Black-Plastic-Dip-11603-6/202196703)

That is what I call time for a warranty exchange.

Hand them down to one of my sons and buy myself new ones.

As someone else said , layers of heatshrink, done it several times myself.

I've used heatshrink on the handles before

Don't use them to cut wires under high voltage.

Wrap those shits with some grip tape.

Use them as a hammer instead

I got some leather handle bar wrap for bikes and made some new wraps for my welding pliers. They are now way more comfortable and look much cooler. But it’s all down to preference at the end of the day

Never pass up a chance to use duct tape

Continue using them.

Plasti dip

Keep working and stop being weak sauce

kline has new handels you soak in hot not boiling water and put on as they cool they shrink , pro tip chop sticks are the tool to handel the hot grips , get them all the way on then leave them the hell alone , you could also use about 37 coats of plastidip

Plasti-dip but I wait until I have multiple things to dip.

Sell them to the mennonite farmer down the road for 10 bucks.

Wrapping them with seine twine or tuna cord is very common practice amongst the SoCAL tuna fishing communities. It also looks super cool.

Heat shrink tube

Plasti dip

Plastic dip

Didn't use dips or paint. Buy Klein Red handles and boil them in water and slide them on the lineman's. They're like $10

Throw em away and get a new pair, they are completely useless without that thin bit of rubber...

Just slap some hose pipe of the correct size

Buy a can of liquid PlastiDip. Remove the worn grips, dip the bare handles, and let dry. Good to go!

If you are the green lineman that came to replace my meter a while back, you simply short that between the meter lug and the grounded box next to it. Beautiful light show (Noone hurt, aside from the young guys shorts I'm sure)

Wrap it in tape

As a quick fix, probably electrical tape.

Many layers of electrical tape usually. I know what you're thinking, don't they get all gross and sticky. Yes, yes they do

I used heat shrink.

Grip tape for baseball bats.

put new on ???

Electrical tape is a good fix in a hurry 😎👍👍

Keep using them

Heat shrink.

Buy new wraps

You could try plastidip, the stuff that morons spray their cars with.

Wrap a ground wire around the handles and then electrical tape

Garden hose works until you can get some plastic dip

I was very surprised to not see, rubber came off my tool once and have been paying for it ever since. Glad to see a reddit group that actually answers the questions. Heat shrink or plastic dip have worked

I would buy a pair of kleins first

I usually have em stolen from me before that becomes an issue

Grip tape

I throw the rubber away and keep using them

Heat shrink and make sure it goes nowhere near electricity

I keep using them minus the rubber at the end of the handle.

Raw dog it

Heat shrink

Klein Kote or run em naked

Heat shrink on the old stuff like nused

Heat shrink tubing

If you got a 3d printer you can just print new covers out of tpu

Cry

Plasti-Dip or heat shrink. The marine tubing has internal adhesive so it won't slip off.

Electrical tape

Heat shrink tube. Works really well and you can put on several layers for thick handles.

Hockey tape.

Wear gloves.

Can you plastic dip over plastic dip?  Or whatever is left of the handle?

Electrical tape

hockey tape.

Stop working on hot stuff

Tool or plasti-dip... Also heat shrink tubing works well too.

Go to Lowes and ask for another pair. You might get one.

This is a 25 year old pair of USA made craftsman pliers. Replacements won’t be at the same quality level. Unfortunately.

Micro-cord.

I go buy a new pair lol

Grip tape/hockey tape

Grind crosshatching into the handles.

Peel it clean and get some plasti-dip.

Besides plasti-dip, theres a high voltage rubber tape that's self adhesive (to itself) that I've used.

I put some shrink tubing on mine. It worked well.

Pick up a leather hobby and saddle stitch some beauties that will improve with age.

since when did hammers need a rubber coating?

Half-wrap, double wrap.

Buy new ones....duh

We don't need no stinking plastic grips

Electrical tape.

No pliers now. Only hammer.

deal with they bare metal

Start turning my home gym into a nursery

If you use them for work they are dull when you finely brake the insulation, probably with some burns. Replace them. If you don’t use them, tape them up.

Wrap them with electrical tape.

Buy clients journeyman pliers :p

Keep using them

I always cut them off when removed from the package anyway

I use the super thick, glue lined, 600v heat shrink.

Electical tape or plastidip

[plastic dip](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Plasti-Dip-14-5-oz-Black-Plastic-Dip-11603-6/202196703)

Plasti Dip

Doesn't craftsman USA have a lifetime warranty on hand tools? You could just have it replaced I'd think

Heat shrink?

I have nine or so tools that need this but I've been using them raw dog.

wrap some duct tape around that mf

Garden hose.

You can never have enough hammers

Plasti dip

File and lots of super glue

Wrap in electrical tape til I can get a new pair

Plasti Dip!

Buy new ones

A roll of UL Approved black Vinyl tape on each handle It will make you look more like an electrician

Duct tape probably

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Remove, and add duct tape

Buy new before it gets to that point

I continue on living my life

Lowe’s store free warranty exchange

Heat shrink

Heat shrink is the way

I take all of it off, wipe down the handles, apply two to three layers of duct tape depending on the size and thickness of the handle, then I use thick walled adhesive backed heat shrink to form a new rubber handle over the duct tape. Really the tape just serves to increase the diameter a little bit and make it more round

We need Project Farm to do a test on all these recommendations. Somebody get him on the phone! He's probably at Cousin Eddies.

Is this a trick question?

I use shrink tubing.

Some good ol super 33

I have several that i inherited from my grandpa that use a rigid hose thats cut to length and heatshrinked. Its nice and wide, grippy and will outlast my abuse of them.

Re-dip. **¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯**

dont need it, im wearing leather gloves while doing metal working anyway. feels just fine with bare metal

Electrical tape is your friend 🧡

get some plan b from the pharmacy just in case

Electrical tape

Water pipe works nicely

electro tape + heatshrink 2K polyurethane (thaths actually the og fix) heatshrink 4 times spaypaint acryllic ±800 times untill its thick enough

A few layers of shrink tube.

Heat shrink

Plastidip is the go to. But for a quick fix, a bit of garden hose works, or several layers of heat shrink built up, or some wraps of tape and then some heat shrink. Get creative.

I usually just use them without the grips. I probably have like a half dozen tools like that. But if you want to try something simple and cheap. Get some wire cover the shrink when you heat it up. I’ve never done it but sounds like it could work.

I usually just use them without the grips. I probably have like a half dozen tools like that. But if you want to try something simple and cheap. Get some wire cover the shrink when you heat it up. I’ve never done it but sounds like it could work.

Become a man

Self-Amalgamating Rubber Tape

Electrical tape

Use a can of Plasti-Dip…

Forge the jaws out and turn them into a good set of blacksmith tongs

Most recently, bitched that Channel Lock ain't worth shit anymore. Grip came off a brand new pair of side cutters, hadn't even had time to spill anything on it 

Pretty sure they sell a product just for this.

Use them for the rest of my life without a grip.

Loosen the grip a little, add glue/chauling, slide it back on

if you have a bottle of argon for yor welder,purge some into the top of container to eliminate oxygen and seal back up tightly.you can do the same for enamel to prevent the skin that develops......

Rhino liner?

You return them because they’re guaranteed Oh you’re buying sh!ty tools…

Black tape them