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Title: Need Reed Pliers Help
Post by: Bus on September 15, 2014, 02:39:01 PM
In the wrenches I am listing for the fall Wrenching News Auction I found this 6.5" pliers. It's marked REED MFG. CO. - ERIE, PA  U.S.A. on one side and that side looks like a normal slip joint pliers but the other side has some strange cutout sections around the jaws. Anyone have any ideals?  It's Lot No. 719-3 in the catalog.

Link to all photos
http://wrenchingnews.com/2014-fall-auction/all-pics-one-page.html (http://wrenchingnews.com/2014-fall-auction/all-pics-one-page.html)

Link to the catalog "in progress"
http://wrenchingnews.com/2014-fall-auction/catalog.html (http://wrenchingnews.com/2014-fall-auction/catalog.html)


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Title: Re: Need Reed Pliers Help
Post by: mvwcnews on September 16, 2014, 08:11:16 PM
"Bus,"
Could it be an after-market alteration?  The main features of the pliers are produced by  drop forging with broaching for the  jaw teeth and pivot holes.   The "grooves" could have been cut by a machine shop to modify the pliers to grasp something inside a tube or pipe.
Title: Re: Need Reed Pliers Help
Post by: Plyerman on September 17, 2014, 08:31:38 PM
Quote from: mvwcnews on September 16, 2014, 08:11:16 PM
"Bus,"
Could it be an after-market alteration?  The main features of the pliers are produced by  drop forging with broaching for the  jaw teeth and pivot holes.   The "grooves" could have been cut by a machine shop to modify the pliers to grasp something inside a tube or pipe.


Random observation here; notice the machining marks in the groove are "round and round". Meaning whoever cut the groove did so in a lathe, with the plier jaws wide open (or the halves separated?) and clamped to a faceplate or special fixture.
Title: Re: Need Reed Pliers Help
Post by: Branson on September 18, 2014, 09:41:50 AM
Quote from: Bus on September 15, 2014, 02:39:01 PM
Anyone have any ideals? 

Got plenty of ideals, but no ideas about these pliers...
Title: Re: Need Reed Pliers Help
Post by: Charles Garrett on September 18, 2014, 10:48:49 AM
Looks like it would be ideal for installing small bundle wraps or ratcheting hose clamps.  Chuck Garrett