Forgotten Tools

[bobkentnova]

Can anyone tell me anything about the following two tools. I believe they were produced between 1960 and 1975.

 

[bobkentnova]

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[d42jeep]

The one on the right is a battery terminal spreader. Here is my Snap-On version.
-Don

 

[The Cobbler]

1st pic might be a crimper for security seals?

 

[woody 73]

Don beat me, battery terminal spreader.

 

[r_olson_06]

Finishing hook grabbing pliers is the first one. It is an earlier version of them. I got one last weekend and had to look it it up.


Looking for a Round Beam Plomb 1068 Double Box End Wrench

 

[MR.X]

One of the companies that made that tool on the left called them nibble nose wire cutters.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I still use my battery terminal spreaders. They are not particularly vintage, from the 80s maybe.

 

[Roberts210]

I still use my battery terminal spreaders.........

Me too. When you need to spread the terminal NOTHING beats this tool.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

One tool everyone I know has forgotten about is the vintage axle things that you use to hit the end of the axle out of the engine side that were on the 90s model and back cars I only had to use one one time and had to track down a mechanic who had them after asking every mechanic I knew someone finally found them


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[steaks&anvils]

The bernard/sargent style cutters, I have always known that style to be piano wire or hardened wire cutters.

 

[RTM]

Looks like soft wire and Nibble Nose are the winners.

https://archive.org/details/SargentHandTools1961/page/n3/mode/2up

 

[RTM]

This is what most piano wire cutters I have seen look like, compound action.

https://archive.org/details/StarrettCatalog15/page/n45/mode/2up

 

[steaks&anvils]

Looks like soft wire and Nibble Nose are the winners.

https://archive.org/details/SargentHandTools1961/page/n3/mode/2up

This is what most piano wire cutters I have seen look like, compound action.

https://archive.org/details/StarrettCatalog15/page/n45/mode/2up

RTM, yeah, good call, these make more sense. I think I have been calling these by the wrong name for years. Funny, the description says for bailing wire and the horse barn is where I last saw these! and they were being used for bailing wire, but people called them the "piano cutters". LOL

I can see where the hardened nippers would work better for the hard wire types.

 

[Mintgrun]

That Starrett catalog is awesome. Thank you for posting that, RTM.

The spring inside the handle of the nibble-nose cutters is a fun design. I have some flat bladed needle nosed pliers that are similarly made, using stamped sheet steel. They also have that style bypass cutter on either side of the jaws.



I modified the pair in the background, to bend loops on the ends of springs. (for distributors)

I recently found another pair of those pliers in the next size up and the wire cutting notches are a bit buggered up; probably from cutting hard wire.

 

[WisJim]

The old Schollhorn catalog of Bernard tools has a listing similar to the Sargent catalog. From catalog 29, probably 1930s to 40s. My undated and unnumbered Schollhorn catalog titled "Bernard Pliers Field Catalog for Retailer and Consumer" doesn't show this style of wire cutters at all.
I found it interesting that up to seven sizes of some of the styles of Bernard pliers were made, and a version with the parallel jaws and side cutting jaws were made with hardened cutting jaws for cutting music wire.

 

[steaks&anvils]

There is a great thread about this type of pliers. Made by a few companies:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=344360&highlight=bernard