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you could purchase a springless door opener that mounts above the door and runs on just the rails alone. That way you have all the room to the ceiling. I know they make a residential one, I had a customer who had one.

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I will give your post the consideration it deserves

I hope he takes it back to the store and complains the socket can't be removed.

If he would have invented the METRIC self adjusting vise grips...I would be rich now!!!

The link is in a post above

sent the link for the self adjusting vice grips. I can link to the spoke ratchet also...Let me know!!! I do have the original Patent document from the Patent office for the bike wrench. Wish I knew where the one for the vice grips are!!! Thanks for all the comments.

Amazing indeed!!!:beer:

I never said my grandfather invented the vice grips...so saying see here minimizes his contribution. I said from the start "self adjusting".

The ones used by Peterson has the screw to adjust which can also vary the tension. The one one my grandfather invented was self adjusting but tension could not be adjusted. A good tool for some applications.

I understand that. My grandfather did not invent the vice grips. He invented the "self adjusting" vice grips.

I don't think my grandfather ever did anything with it other than let it run out. A gold mine? maybe. I think he was afraid of investing in it or getting investors to go in. I don't think he trusted anyone enough.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=q_9XAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false Hope I did this right!!! My cousin has the prototypes. One is made out of wood with plastic over the handle so you can see the inner mechanism workings. The second one is made out of metal...

Dear Members I have seen questions re: the self adjusting vice grips. Some have said they were invented by The Peterson Tool Co. Not true. They were invented by my grandfather and he received a patent for them Aug. 14, 1951. Patent # 2,564,585. His name was Harold Arthur Shaw. Before that he...

Dear Members I have seen posts re: the self adjusting vice grips. Some have said Peterson Tools had invented them. Not true. My grandfather invented them in 1948 and received a patent on them Aug. 14, 1951 the patent # is 2,564,585. My cousin has the original prototypes that I hope to get and...