Mystery pliers :question:

[R.Anderson]

Mystery pliers, Never seen anything like these till today. I am unable to figure out what they are used/made for.
No other markings other than "DF" I even pulled off the blue grips, nothing.

Where did they come from? Found in the pile of **** that gets filtered out from a hydropulper at the paper mill here that recycles paper that comes from Wisconsin and every state around. So that is no help in figuring out this mystery.

 

[NKlamerus]

Are we naming all unknowns? This one looks like a ted....

 

[larry_g]

They look like a wire bending tool but I suspect that they are for bending a flat strip into something like a battery contact or other flat contact or spring strip. There are companys that will custom build tools like this for making limited or prototype parts.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[jeremy v]

It looks like a specialty plier for making jewelry to me. Do a google image search for jewelry bending pliers or jewelry shaping pliers and you will see many plier styles that look very similar.

The thing that causes me to question my guess a little bit is that most jewelry related pliers have a part nylon jaw or at least smooth jaws so they don't mar anything. Your pliers appear to have some serrations along the center ridge, so my guess might be wrong.

Neat find, it will be interesting to find out what they actually are if anyone else here knows for sure.

 

[R.Anderson]

They look like a wire bending tool but I suspect that they are for bending a flat strip into something like a battery contact or other flat contact or spring strip. There are companys that will custom build tools like this for making limited or prototype parts.

no neat sig line

Thought this as well but the way the jaw with teeth goes past the two prong jaw as a space on one side and the other is tight like two shear blades makes me doubt that a little.

It looks like a specialty plier for making jewelry to me. Do a google image search for jewelry bending pliers or jewelry shaping pliers and you will see many plier styles that look very similar.

The thing that causes me to question my guess a little bit is that most jewelry related pliers have a part nylon jaw or at least smooth jaws so they don't mar anything. Your pliers appear to have some serrations along the center ridge, so my guess might be wrong.

Neat find, it will be interesting to find out what they actually are if anyone else here knows for sure.

When I first saw em thats what I thought but a closer look the one jaw does have teeth for gripping and these do not not look like any jewelry pliers I have seen. So I highly doubt they are jewelry pliers.

Its the lack of numbers letters thats really baffling me.

 

[Outlawmws]

Is it tight for the male jaw to fit in the notched female jaw? If so I vote notched for light sheet metal (Think copper/brass). If there is a clearance, a forming tool to make a "U" clip or stand off.

If the male and femail parts have a radius or chamfure, then possibly a wire forming tool

 

[Outlawmws]

Thought this as well but the way the jaw with teeth goes past the two prong jaw as a space on one side and the other is tight like two shear blades makes me doubt that a little.

OK this is better info: They are for simultaneously forming and trimming off a wire, probably off an electronic component.

 

[R.Anderson]

FOUND EM!!! Coil Crimper Pliers -- Cut and crimp your plastic coil in one pass with our convenient coil crimper pliers. These crimpers are sturdy metal construction with padded handles. The jaws are designed to cut and bend over the end of the coil in one operation.

To cut and bend the ends of coils in those cheap plastic spirals books, date books, agendas, etc.

http://www.adss.net/CoilBindingMachines/Coil-Crimper-Pliers-c22_31-p402.htm

So that explains how they ended up recycled with paper.

 

[R.Anderson]

OK this is better info: They are for simultaneously forming and trimming off a wire, probably off an electronic component.

Bingo, but for plastic coils

 

[jeremy v]

That makes sense. It also explains how it accidentally ended up in a paper recycling box sent to the pulp mill. Nice find. I learned something new today, thanks.

The link posted didn't work for me, so here is another one.

http://www.mybinding.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/47/Coil-Hand-Crimpers-Spiral-Coil-Crimping-Pliers

 

[NKlamerus]

Wow those things are expensive...

I was an office aid for 2 years in middle school and I made 50 of those packets a week, we always just reused the bindings and opened them up with a binding press/spreader!

 

[frugalscotty]

That makes sense. It also explains how it accidentally ended up in a paper recycling box sent to the pulp mill. Nice find. I learned something new today, thanks.

The link posted didn't work for me, so here is another one.

http://www.mybinding.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/47/Coil-Hand-Crimpers-Spiral-Coil-Crimping-Pliers

There's a how-to video at the bottom of this page too.