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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: bunger on February 07, 2015, 09:31:30 AM

Title: Pliers
Post by: bunger on February 07, 2015, 09:31:30 AM
Got this out of the 25 cent bin at the flea market.
Marked "WINDHAM", Pat Pending, The Goyer Co. USA
It looks like Goyer was a company that sold industrial lubricants.

Any ideas on what this was used for?

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Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: EVILDR235 on February 07, 2015, 11:50:25 AM
They look like electrical pliers for putting a loop in the end of a wire that is to go on a stud or around a bolt.

EvilDr235
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: Papaw on February 07, 2015, 12:32:34 PM
That is plausible. The numbers could be for wire gauge.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: bunger on February 07, 2015, 01:01:02 PM
Did a little more research.

The Goyer Co. was in Willimantic CT.
Willimantic is a section of the Town of Windham


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Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: Papaw on February 07, 2015, 02:14:33 PM
Good info!
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: Yadda on February 07, 2015, 02:41:56 PM
You got it for 20% of retail!  Nice!
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: EVILDR235 on February 07, 2015, 07:10:58 PM
I have a pair like that, but without the numbers.

EvilDr235
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: gibsontool on February 07, 2015, 08:55:01 PM
I have never seen these or any thing similar but I think they would be very handy on wiring jobs and I'm surprised nobody makes them today, or if they are made I'd like to know by who so I can get myself some.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: anglesmith on February 08, 2015, 12:49:58 AM
Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: zeet on February 08, 2015, 10:10:35 AM
Great bit of sleuth-work, Bunger. 
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: DM11 on February 08, 2015, 07:02:16 PM
Those pliers look handy. Never seen a plier like them.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: mvwcnews on February 08, 2015, 11:02:21 PM
Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme
I found "snippet views" of "new product announcements"  in electronics  trade periodicals for late 1925 using Google advanced book search.  Too bad the Disney copyright law won't allow that old stuff to go into the public domain & be freely viewable.   Wonder if there is a patent ....
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: bunger on February 09, 2015, 06:09:07 AM
Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme

Close, I found it in POPULAR RADIO magazine PDF's on The American Radio History site.
Found mention of the Goyer Co. in a 1925 edition & the ad in a 1926 edition.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: scottg on February 09, 2015, 03:03:48 PM
These are super cool!
I have 3 or 4 pair in the jeweler size. They are common with jewelers for making basically tiny rings.
 But big enough for electrical constriction wire?
 And in marked screw sizes? 
 How come these didn't sell 16 million units and we can all get one for a quarter?
       yours Scott
 
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: turnnut on February 09, 2015, 10:04:43 PM
I live about an hours drive from Willimantic, CT and I have never seen a pair like that.

that sure would be easier to use than forming the wire around a screwdriver or
ice pick like I have done many times.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: bunger on February 10, 2015, 09:16:16 AM
I live about an hours drive from Willimantic, CT ....

Turnnut, I live in Southington. What town are you from?
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: turnnut on February 10, 2015, 04:34:51 PM
bunger;

   Monson, Mass.  Rt. 32 runs thru Monson, just above Stafford Springs, CT.

   am retired from Pratt & Whitney, E. Hartford after 28 1/2 years of almost
   80 mile round trip.
   they were going to send me to Southington for a year.  no way, way too far
   to travel as I got older.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: bunger on February 10, 2015, 07:22:56 PM
Wow, 28 years of I91 twice a day. That's a hell of a commute.
I'm lucky I work 1.2 miles from home.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: turnnut on February 10, 2015, 08:28:20 PM
   bunger,  I took rt 84 from Tolland, CT

   sometimes I would start on 84 and jump on 83 for a change of scenery.
   and come home the back way.

   I called my driving time my "thinking time"

   but the winters were not the best,  leave for work in the dark, return in the dark.   
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: 1930 on February 11, 2015, 03:33:11 AM
Grew up in Montville, we used to drive to the Stop and Shop in Willamantic when I was a child, about 45 drive every week but fond memories.
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: PFSchaffner on April 08, 2015, 06:17:46 PM
Very similar pliers are sold nowadays as orthodontic loop-forming pliers; also as jeweler's loop-forming pliers. (Search ebay for 'orthodontic pliers loop')
Title: Re: Pliers
Post by: Papaw on April 08, 2015, 06:39:57 PM
Thanks for that info! How about finding the Introduction Forum and telling us a bit about yourself and your tool interests?