Help Me Identify Pliers

'Circlip pliers' often come with right angle heads, although the tips are fairly small:

Also check the spread of the tips, as often for circlips they don't need to open too wide. Being designed for circlips, the tips are round and don't touch, which may be an issue for picking up tiny things - probably not an issue for a battery.

Theo

Many thanks :-)

I need the pliers to be 90 degrees the other way, that is why I am having such a problem describing them! Looking at the battery it runs across left to right and I need to be able to grip the front and back rather than the sides.

Ransom thoughts:

google right angle pliers. Plenty

What about (plastic) tweezers?

Do you really care about shorting a coin battery?

BLU-TAC and a coat banger?

One of those Bowden cable claws?

Turning the computer upside down and shaking?

The right angle pliers Google turns up are side to side not front to back.

A small pick/hook type tool?

You do seem to enjoy making a meal of things...

Computers are usually very easy to strip down. It would have been expected that owners would need to replace batteries sometimes so no special tools beyond a screw driver should be needed.

Tim

Have you ever tried to get a battery out of a HPe Proliant Microserver Gen8? A gynaecologist might manage it :-)

OK. I hadn't appreciarted that was a requirement

It needs to be pulled up against a spring clip.

Not sure what that means? This is normally a polite and helpful group, there is no compulsion to reply.

Coin batteries are made of steel and even a tiny neodymium magnet will stick to one. If it's not near any other steel, a magnet stuck to the end, eg, of a barbecue stick will retrieve the battery.

I'd have thought something like a knitting needle would be able to ping the coin cell from the holder, and a lump of blutak on the end of the needle would retrieve it from wherever it lands?

It's a comment/observation - possibly helpful, hardly more than a tiny bit impolite. As I say, you do seem to enjoy making a meal of things... (on this newsgroup for ... > 25 years)

An example would be good, you don't have to read anything from me let alone reply to it.

Google "90 degree locking pliers" but they're probably too big.

Am 14.05.2026 um 13:56 schrieb Jeff Gaines:

What do you mean with 'front to back'? This type?

Consider surgical pliers. May not use hard steel so could be adapted.

I just had a look at my Microserver Gen8. Without a pci-e expansion card plugged in I can reach the coin cell with my fingers once the lid is removed. If a card is in the way, or if fingers don't go far enough, sliding the motherboard out is not very difficult. I did this when I upgraded to a Xeon CPU. It does involve unplugging some cables. John

Yes!!!

Thank you, now I know what they are called I have found them on Amazon UK.

Many thanks :-)

They do everything in the right direction though, thank you :-)