Malco Ultra Lightweight Vinyl Cutting Snips

By Matt Higgins

If your work involves ladders, you probably appreciate lightweight gear. Made to be heavy duty, cutting snips, unfortunately, can be heavyweights. Malco solves that problem with its new Ultra Lightweight Vinyl Cutting Snips, which feature a polymer frame instead of aluminum or steel. This drops the weight down to 9 oz. The handles feature loops and the overall length is 10 inches.

The high carbon steel cutting blades are 3 inches and Malco says they can be replaced on the job. The blade retaining hardware threads into brass hardware. The blades are described to a knife-like bevel for easy starting and cutting of even thick, hard vinyl. The tool is designed for all weather conditions. This tool is made in the U.S.

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