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Treasures!

Tom_133
Tom_133 Member Posts: 912

I have been cleaning out my storage units and finding treasures! I will keep updating more as I find them but here’s one I didn’t even remember!

Tom
Montpelier Vt
Waherdelcrossvleonz

Comments

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,784

    Used to have a few of those but they got lost/stolen over the years.

    Downfall was jaws were not replaceable when they got dull, and they have less jaw opening capacity than a Ridgid.

    But they are cool, and they work.

    Intplm.
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 11,122

    I have sears dunlop banded one like that. I suspect someone could re-grind the teeth. I wonder how they were cut in the factor. Probably with a mill.

  • kcopp
    kcopp Member Posts: 4,485

    My Dad had one of those. I think my brother still has it.

  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,762
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    delcrossvLong Beach Ed
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 11,122

    yeah i thought of that, but leveling them first would do better and that would be a lot to do with a file. Is there a foley bellsaw pipe wrench jaw sharpener?

  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,632

    Hi, I've had some old tools so hard that the file simply slipped on them. Really good steel! These days I use a Dremel tool with a small grind stone in it. It's nice to feel how well a once-dull tool grabs the pipe after sharpening!

    Yours, Larry

    mattmia2
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,292

    I have a similar one in my ID picture on this site. It's one of four? that my late father used. I'm still using them today and they are about one hundred years old.

    Revenant
  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 5,489
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,784

    On 2' Ridgid I use a 1 1/2" piece of electrical EMT. You hammer 1 end of it oval to fit over the Ridgid handle. When you push it on it locks to the wrench handle and comes off with a hammer tap easily. The EMT is a lot lighter than pipe and is easier to handle when you're on a ladder struggling with a wrench and cheater. And the EMT is very difficult to bend.

    I used to make one out of 2" emt and 1 out of 1 1/2" emt 2' long and store 1 inside the other in the truck.

  • CLamb
    CLamb Member Posts: 329

    I used a Dremel to recut the teeth on mine. First I used an abrasive cutting wheel to deepen the notch at the bottom of each tooth. I then used a sandpaper drum to grind down the face of the tooth.

    Intplm.
  • Tom_133
    Tom_133 Member Posts: 912

    The stuff I have isn't super old, just some cool older things, I will keep adding to the thread as I dig it out.

    Tom
    Montpelier Vt
    Long Beach Ed
  • akjim
    akjim Member Posts: 4

    I get a bit of nostalgia and like to use my Great Grandfather’s pliers, post WWII, mfg in the British zone of occupied Germany.

  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,632

    Hi @akjim , Interesting you show those pliers. I was just using these today. 😊 Yours don't look so abused. 😏

    Yours, Larry

  • akjim
    akjim Member Posts: 4

    Isn't it amazing that the paint on these has lasted all these years?

    Long Beach Ed
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 11,122

    Why are there waffle head hammer marks on them?

  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,309
    edited December 2024

    Lineman pliers are often used to apply hammering to the nail for wall boxes when there is only maybe 3" between studs.

    Pliers against the nail and hammer on the center of the pliers.

    I have plenty of pliers that have been abused as such.

    But do not hammer on the pivot side of the rivet or it may jam up the pivot action……I have a few of them also.

    Note: as for the paint….shows the durability of lead paint….don't chew on them.

    mattmia2
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,632

    Hi @mattmia2 , I promise you I got them that way. It's not my style to do stuff like that to my tools. One jaw is a bit crooked, so you know these pliers got wailed on 🙈

    Yours, Larry

    mattmia2