American Beauty Lineman's Pliers

[ffemtdisp]

I'm in process of cleaning my parent's house out. I discovered, in a dark damp basement (of course) a box containing various tools that apparently came from my grandparents house 20+ years ago.

I figured I would try to take rust off the more severely rusted items using vinegar to start with. One of the first ones I derusted was a 6" pair of lineman's pliers. The only name on them was "American Beauty".

(I will post pics at such time as I get opportunity, but not now)

I googled and found a company of that name that makes soldering equipment. I checked Alloy Facts (that man deserves a special place in Heaven BTW) and found no such listing.

I even searched the archives here, with no results. I now ask the members if any have ideas?


Many thanks

 

[Westly]

I'd like to see the pictures of the de-rusting results.

I found this. American Beauty brand is vaguely familiar to me. It might have been a catalog brand, Sears, Spiegel, or Wards, etc, but that's just a guess. I think they had good distribution.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Vin...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

[jeffmoss26]

This is the only American Beauty I am familiar with:

https://www.americanbeautytools.com/site/

 

[Stuart in MN]

I have my mother's old American Beauty clothes iron, I imagine it's 60 or 70 years old but still works just fine. I'm guessing the link Jeff posted is the same company.

 

[ffemtdisp]

Thank you all for the replies. I figured when I found their website, the current company has settled down to make just soldering equipment.

 

[jeffmoss26]

From what I hear, they make damn good soldering irons

 

[Westly]

Looks and priced pretty boutique:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Deluxe-250-...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Pretty sure I used to have an American Beauty screwdriver or something.

 

[Steinmetz]

From what I hear, they make damn good soldering irons

True. I own about eight of them various wattages).

 

[skruft]

Correct.

I think they are best known for the smaller resistance soldering equipment, which is quite interesting.