The Vise-Grips plant in DeWitt, Nebraska, which has assembled the locking pliers for the last 80 years, will be moving its operations to China. It strikes kind of a note with me because only yesterday I was discussing some ways to free up a frozen and rounded-off brake-line fitting with some people at the parts counter, and a local mechanic recommended the method of lest resort: get some Vise-Grips on the fitting, "nuke 'em" real tight, and just go for it. "Only make sure you're using real ones, not that fake crap from China," he added. It turned out to be really good advice.
Vise-Grips employs around 300 people in a town with a population of 572—so over half the town got the bad news directly from the management yesterday. The pliers have been manufactured in Nebraska since 1924, when Danish immigrant and DeWitt blacksmith William Petersen obtained the patent for them. Read more at msnbc.
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