Most of you are probably already aware of this neat little tool but for those who are not a company named PBL sells a set of nippers that are just great. I use the fine tip to get small parts off of the sprue, they work much better than the large sprue nippers sold be Testors and others. These are just the things for small parts. The part number is 802. Here is a link to their page:
http://www.p-b-l.com/PBL2002/main-ws-ltm.html

Looked cool I use the ones from Klein but will look into these.