I can not identify these pliers

[Sk8Crash69]

Hello everyone, I just joined the board and I love the welth of information on this site. My father and I cleaned out my grandfather's basement sorting through his tools and came across these pliers that neither him or I could identify. This weekend we got a table at Raceway Park Swap Meet in NJ with these pliers for sale, hoping someone mightt be able to shed some light on them, but no one gave them a second look. I was wondering if anyone hear has any clues. Thanks.

 

[jeremy v]

They look to me like cable tv rg6, rg59, f-type or rg11 compression connector pliers. Which one it is or which combinations will depend on the exact size of the openings and spread of the jaws when open. They are for pushing together the compression connector when making your own cable tv or cable internet wires. I have some that look like the yellow handled ones pictured made by Sargent. Sargent calls them snap-n-seal pliers, but they have many names. That style plier isn't really used much anymore, but they still work just fine. Most people use a style like the blue handled ones in my pictures now because they have a little bit better leverage so are easier on the hands if doing many connectors.

 

[zkling]

Welcome to GJ

Dang Jeremy beat me to it. Agree, it looks like a compress/assembly tool for connectors.

 

[neophyte]

I don't know what the pliers were used for. The parallel jaw handle design is the type manufactured by Sargent, Bernard, Schollhorn, and Maun. Maun is the English manufacturer of that style plier frame, Sargent is the current USA manufacturer. Sargent has sold, and may still sell, that plier frame to outside manufacturers who add their own jaws for specialty purposes, and they still sell pliers using the same frame. This is the Sargent website with a short history.

http://www.sargenttools.com/About/Our-History/

 

[Sk8Crash69]

Awesome, thanks everone. I guess the spikes in the bottom jaw of mine are used to hold different inserts for different connectors.

 

[jeremy v]

Awesome, thanks everone. I guess the spikes in the bottom jaw of mine are used to hold different inserts for different connectors.

Most of the older plier style compression connector tools don't have any inserts like the yellow handled ones that I pictured in my previous post do. Those spikes might just be to hold the jaws in alignment when you are crimping down on the connectors. I am assuming that there are corresponding holes in the top jaw of the plier? If so I would say they were just for alignment purposes, and if not, then they are definitely for holding some sort of an extra die or insert.