{"id":6700,"date":"2024-06-14T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:03:42","slug":"highly-recommended-for-modelling-tasks-expo-curved-ended-pliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Highly Recommended for modelling tasks \u2013 Expo 75611 Half Round\/Concave Combination Plier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought these at Thirsk show last year or the year before and I hadn&#8217;t really used them much until recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have absolutely no affiliation with Expo aside from a satisfied user of these pliers. Which I can highly recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curve of the jaws is slightly offset and I thought that this might be an issue initially but it has proved to be a design feature that has been very useful for bending wire to complex shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5-1002x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6701\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5-1002x1024.jpg 1002w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5-293x300.jpg 293w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5-768x785.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0001_5.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Expo Curved Pliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1-1024x674.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1-768x505.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1-456x300.jpg 456w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-IMG_0002-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Expo Curved Pliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought these at Thirsk show last year or the year before and I hadn&#8217;t really used them much until recently. I have absolutely no affiliation with Expo aside from a satisfied user of these pliers. Which I can highly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-n-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}