So we send you all of our pliers, so they can see the motherland, and then you send them back afterwards? Kinda like sending the kids to gramma's for the summer?
Agreed. The intersection on the flyer is shared by a pawn shop and what might be an auction house or antiques store. Yet the site of the factory is several blocks SSW.
But the set up was a few blocks away, an ANNUAL event. The block was dominated by food trucks and chatty crowds. At first, I thought I had missed the pliers event, because of getting stuck behind an accident on rt78. 
But after I checked around, I found a few folding tables set up (fittingly) in front of a PA inspection station, where EMTs had two vehicles at the ready. One table had binders of photocopied news articles, employee lists, etc. Three others had pliers laid out, and there was room for mine! (foreground).
This spun my head, because I assumed all those were Kenosha-mfd after Chicago.
Now that's funny!...I was picturing Kevin Hart in the SiriusXM commercial!
I should have also posted the picture of the other side of the pliers that has the forged steel products name and location here is that picture also the company was well financed by investors at start up . The company was made up of previous employees from the Kraeuter tool company , FSP was a company with knowledge and funding to hit the ground running from the start
It surprised me also when I found the first pair of them. I now have three pairs all the same number, If that one surprised you this is not the best example but here is what I believe is the first production that had the Vacuum Grip name on, it is stamped in block letters before the Vacuum Grip script was introduced
Good question. And one that may not be readily answered in comparison to this example of No. 70-A's, which have clearly been modified. (I had found these last year, neglected to post them, and just re-found them when looking for something else.) Put it this way. If yours have been modified, mine have been even more extremely modified. Yours may be original after all.
This is a page from one of the catalogs and pictures of the original kits, the last small kit was produced after the merger and are marked Snap-on Newport Pa.
Thank you, My Grandfather was a machinist at the factory, he had great stories that got my interest I started collecting at the age of fifteen and now have over 350 pieces
Purrrrrdy.
Do you go to the annual "Homecoming" event we were talking about upthread? @LesserSon attended last year. Maybe you guys walked right past each other or talked.
Yes. Keep 'em coming.
Yes , I haven’t missed any of the Homecomings. I met @LesserSon at the last Homecoming, He told me about this sight, he displayed his plier collection also.
Thank you, I don’t turn down a opportunity to talk about the pliers factory
Thank you
