Tweezers Gateway
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Shor carries an exceptionally wide variety of styles and brands of tweezers in several different metals. Choosing the right tweezer for your needs can be very confusing, but the following guidelines should help. Additional details will be found with the specific tweezer pictures and stock numbers.

Tweezers Gateway
Pattern #1-35A Diamond Pattern A-00D Cutting Boley AA-RR Kits
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Ceramic & Plastic  Forceps Small Parts & Vacuum Pearl & Bead Pickling 3rd Hand Soldering .

 

Brands:
  • Peer- Made in Switzerland
  • Dumont- Made in Switzerland
  • Grobet- Made in the U.S.A.
  • Prideline- Economy tweezers
 Tweezer Metals:

The chart below shows general property relationships among the various metals used in the manufacturing of tweezers. In addition, note that the points of the harder metals will wear longer and are less subject to bending. The softer metals will not scratch delicate parts and usually have additional desirable properties such as being non-magnetic, etc.  Titanium has a very high melting temperature and is commonly used when soldering platinum.
Metal Hardness Non-Magnetic Corrosion / Acid Resist .  Metal Hardness Non-Magnetic Corrosion / Acid Resist
Carbon Steel Very Hard No Poor . Brass Very Soft Yes Fair
Stainless Steel (SS) Hard No Satisfactory Titanium Hard Yes Good
Non-Mag Stainless  Soft Yes Good Carpenter 20 Medium Yes Excellent
Nickel  Plated Steel Very hard No Satisfactory German Silver Very Soft Yes Fair
Chrome Plated Steel Very hard No Satisfactory . . . .

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