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Siegen SO645

Price: £11.28 Contact: 01284 757500, www.sealey.co.uk

These looked the part with their rounded handles and grippy inserts, as well as decent-sized combination pliers. But the cutting tests required plenty of effort. Build quality could be better, too, as we could see light through the cutter blades and the combination pliers failed to grip paper. There’s no pipe wrench and the jaws were marked after the bolt test.

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