Anyone know what this is?

[dashmer]

I was recently given a bag of misc hand tools. One of the items is something I have not seen before and the person who gave them to me has no idea. Anyone know?

Thanks.

 

[blue-5]

Hog ring remover?

 

[inphx]

Right click, google image search... https://www.amazon.com/Satco-90-099-Malleable-Pliers-Spring/dp/B000V54MX0/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Satco 90-099 Chain Pliers​

looks like you adjust the hanging lamp link chain with them

 

[KnurledNut]

Inphx got it right. Chain pliers for adjusting length of chain suspended lighting fixtures, etc.
One of those tools you dont need often, but when you do you do.

 

[dashmer]

You guys nailed it! Thanks!

 

[APEowner]

That's just great. Now there's another tool I need that I didn't know I needed. Thanks a lot GJ.

 

[ArcReactorKC]

I haven't seen a pair of those in a good 20 years. My first journeyman when I was just starting as an apprentice had a pair. He did a lot of the residential service calls for the company and it seemed like every day he was dealing with light fixture chain.

 

[ecotec]

I have a three pairs of those from when I did residential electrical (almost 30 years ago).

 

[driftpin]

Very 1960's/'70's! I see in my mind's eye a guy in flare jeans and a cotton plaid shirt on an A-frame ladder using that while the permed housewife admiringly watches the work.

 

[hobie18]

Schneider

 

[hobie18]

That's just great. Now there's another tool I need that I didn't know I needed. Thanks a lot GJ.

The few decades have proven this is a tool I do not need.
I know I do not need.
GJ has proven I do not need.

And one is on the way

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

For pulling things out of a place they shouldn't have been shoved into in the first place?