M. Klein & Sons

[oldpliers1]

I really don't collect tools so much as just pick them up as I find a good tool.... Some I inherited, some were stolen from me, some from yard sales... Just life. Dad was an electrician, so some I got from him.
I do like the spare handles for linesman pliers... got a few packs here and there. Probable got a good 6-7 old linesman pliers... and other stuff I will picture later on. After I was robbed of a toolbox full of tools I started engraving my tools... so I have blurred a few tools in this picture.

I buy the Klein handles they are excellent quality. Welcome to the site there are a lot of serious collectors that know there product and know the nuisances which can be very interesting. Regards

 

[oldpliers1]

I have an old one as well and no idea how to date them. I’ll check the zipper later today.
-Don

I had one nice item Mildew in the tropics killed it mine was bought in 1980

 

[LesserSon]

I picked up this lineman splicing clamp Sunday. I tried fruitlessly to find a youtube video demonstrating how it was used. I assume it just holds two wires parallel while you twist the ends around, but IDK.

The other thing that tipped me toward buying it was that it doesn’t say M.Klein & Sons, but just M.Klein & Son. AA shows an 1898 advertisement with the same name, but erroneously captions it M.Kein & Sons. I don’t see a mention in the company history on AA nor on the Klein site that gives a date when a second son joined the firm.
I suppose “W.E.Co” is Western Electric.

 

[bmwrd0]

It could hold a lead slug which crips down on two wires. This was not something they knew anything about at the phone company, or at least no one told me about it!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...it doesn’t say M.Klein & Sons, but just M.Klein & Son.

Nice. The "Pre-Plural" era. I'm assuming it's not dated, either, predating dating. And we now have a new "Oldest Pliers on the Thread", edging out @Bryan Burns "1911", post #110.

AA shows an 1898 advertisement with the same name, but erroneously captions it M.Kein & Sons. I don’t see a mention in the company history on AA nor on the Klein site that gives a date when a second son joined the firm.

According to this biographical reference, the first son, John M. Klein, was born in 1856, joined the company in 1883, and the name was changed to M. Klein & Son at that time. It provides a paragraph on the second son, Joseph A. Klein, born in 1869, and mentions the final change to the company name when he joined his father and brother as a toolmaker, but does not provide a date. The earliest I have been able to box it in based on ads is this reference to & Sons, dated 1904.

 

[oldpliers1]

I picked up this lineman splicing clamp Sunday. I tried fruitlessly to find a youtube video demonstrating how it was used. I assume it just holds two wires parallel while you twist the ends around, but IDK.

The other thing that tipped me toward buying it was that it doesn’t say M.Klein & Sons, but just M.Klein & Son. AA shows an 1898 advertisement with the same name, but erroneously captions it M.Kein & Sons. I don’t see a mention in the company history on AA nor on the Klein site that gives a date when a second son joined the firm.
I suppose “W.E.Co” is Western Electric.

It is done with a tinned dipped crimp link for an inline joint its primitive but depending where you are in the world a tool that could still be used . It’s for stranded cables not single core.

 

[LesserSon]

It is done with a tinned dipped crimp link for an inline joint its primitive but depending where you are in the world a tool that could still be used . It’s for stranded cables not single core.

Thank you. Could you call that a **** splice? Or am I picturing it wrong?

 

[oldpliers1]

The link is crimped on both sides of the indentation cable is inserted either side before insulation is applied to the link only stranded cable can be used . Here is the current tool that’s used throughout the electrical industry. But the Klein tool you have posted is still available in places like India based on the Klein design.

 

[GarageHobbyist]

Anyone have any info on Klein Stamped locks? These are not my photo's, they are from a current eBay listing I ran across in a search for Chicago Lock Co padlocks.
No visible manufacturer, but no photo of the cylinder either. I wouldn't think Klein made these themselves, but I most definitely could be wrong.
My guess, based on appearance and location, is they were made for Klein by Junkunc Bros/American Lock which was founded in Chicago in 1912, and purchased in 2003 by Master Lock/Fortune Brands.

 

[four.cycle]

Junkunc Bros/American

^ I own an old Junkunc - 1970 vintage - and it does look similar. Brushed brass body, chromed loop. Uses an AM-1 key blank, as I recall.

 

[nadogail]

My first pair of Klein pliers were found at the base of a pole in the late 1940's. At the time I thought they were Telephone Company pliers because of the logo. Being just a kid I had no idea of their utility or value, I either lost them or gave them to my father.

Children should not be trusted with good tools, they were just another toy to be lost or discarded.

 

[d42jeep]

These strippers were rusted up solid. I got them freed up and removed as much of the rust as I could.
After.
-Don