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I’d just wash it with soap and warm water. If it still isn’t bright enough, a gentle hand brushing with a NEW brass bristle brush (I like the ones in the paint department at Home Depot or Lowes) would do. Stop before spots of bright brass start to show up. New, because the tips of the bristles...

Yes. Some discusion on the Too Many Pliers thread.

Friday, a buddy & I drove out of the wildfire smoke haze blowing down from across the Great Lakes, up to my parents’ place and fished a small lake there. He caught ten or so largemouth, and (using different tackle) I caught a wider variety of species, but fewer. Diverted on the way back...

“N \ IERS” at least. Maybe “BUTTON’S PATTERN \ PLIERS,” like you said, but if the top line is that long, then something in front of “PLIERS” on the second line would be more symetrical.

That IS interesting. The mechanical linkage (though not the cutting action) looks similar to Hall’s 1867 patent, but it isn’t that old, and the construction is from folded sheet steel. I think the patent is probably on the manufacturing process, or maybe a design patent. I don’t see it listed in...

THANK YOU! I don’t see a lot of French-made tools, and I buy even less, but like you said, these seem exceptionally well-made.

Sorry for the messy cropped pic - bought five pliers today and haven’t gotten all of them sorted yet. Top is a 45° bend Wm Hjorth Jamestown NY “Auto” on one handle only plier. I removed an improvised nut&bolt holding the halves together as found. I’ll see if I can find something better...

Spotted one at the flea today but didn’t purchase. Forgot it was there later when the vendor started announcing “everything on the tarps is free!” or I would have picked it up.

MrsLS had packed up a few cubic feet of basement clutter, so at 04:30 we took it to Jake’s Flea Mkt to sell. After we set up, I did a recon of the field and picked up a few things to refill the void. My first purchase was some SS flatware reminiscent of my grandmother’s Impassa Japan atomic...

One of the advertisements (attached in post5) shows the washer in an exploded view. Here’s a cropped and highlighted version: Not as clear in illustrations that show it assembled, but it’s visible at the base of the conical wingnut body.

After purchasing three loose wrenches yesterday, I can finally make a “set” plus three spares. I’ve been saving a 11/16x3/8 for @Private Lugnutz but we haven’t met up recently. If I had really been on the ball, I bet the screw/wingnut was in the box, because there were a LOT of fasteners in...

IIRC, the bottle-opener alligator wrench should have a screwdriver extending from where this one is sharpened. Maybe it was damaged from use and the PO filed it as best they could. Or maybe they just wanted that close-quarters look.

Solo run this morning to Leesport Farmers Market flea. $15 yielded a Ford logo wrench, Kraeuter and S&H Red Devil pliers, three Ronson wrenches, and a “Whitaker Special S-1043” dbe battery terminal wrench (probably Bonney-made). $8 of the total went into the larger Red Devil (No777), which is in...

The 2001 is a different model with a different cutter on the same page.

@nz44tool The three diamonds logo is absent from many pliers models for decades after the late ‘thirties before coming back with laser etching. page9 of the No50 (1939) catalog:

Unmentioned in that post was an unrecognized nickel-plated brass device with two brass mesh-shrouded wings. I suspected from the shape (esp the threaded end) and the 12[gauge] it could be a bore cleaning/polishing tool like a jag or brush, but wanted to find the patent to confirm. Then other...

Yeah, the weather was good Friday. Enjoyed the trip.

Boker USA No5395 (in 1950 catalog) sidecutter slipjoints with…nested-diamonds grip pattern!?

Visited Hamilton Tool & Supply (www.toolsupermarket.com) this morning. Enjoyed an Oram’s doughnut while looking at C-clamps and pipe wrenches. If I had a day more, I may have found the Bonney 18” and 24” steel-handled Stillsons I casually looked for in a huge pile in the back corner on the...

I visited Columbiana OH today, and stopped in at the local historic society, headquartered in the basement of a delightful log cabin museum at 10 E Park Ave. I was perusing the books there when I heard another visitor exclaim, “He’s a Harrold!” She’s looking at a group photo of men seated...