There are cheap tools that are remarkably good value for the money, and then there are cheap tools that ought not to exist. Here's an example of the latter.
It's a pair of eyelet pliers, for crimping 11/64" inside diameter eyelets.[1] Overall length of the pliers is about 5 3/4". Moment length is about 4 3/8". That moment length is inadequate to yield sufficient leverage to successfully crimp an eyelet. Here's a view of an eyelet 'crimped' by the pliers.
Barely crimped at all. Here's a view of an eyelet crimped by a proper pair of eyelet pliers.
One wonders why the manufacturer of the pliers even bothered to make them.
I've been racking my brain to try to come up with a way to modify or re-purpose these pliers to some useful end, and I've come up empty. I think they're about to go in the garbage.
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Note:
[1] Eyelet sizing is arcane. According to this chart, what I have here are #000 1/2 eyelets. (Between #000 and #00.)
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