Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimwrench on February 27, 2015, 11:17:00 AM
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Bought this at auction because I did some pipeline work around Anoka,Mn back around the start of recorded history. Turns out its a multitool but with only two functions. One is a button hook for your shoes and the second is ?
Has three patents on it. Oldest patent is 966172.
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Forgot to show travel position. When did they put piano hinges on giveaway items ?
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Shoe horn.
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Shoe horn.
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I remember trying on shoes at the shoe store as a kid. Mom would be sitting beside me, and the sales clerk would put my foot in one of those crazy caliper devices, presumably to measure length and width, then go in the back and bring out a pair of shoes. The clerk would then use a shoe horn to get both shoes on my feet, so I could walk around in them and tell mom how comfortable/uncomfortable they were. Not that it mattered. She would always send the clerk out back for a pair one or two sizes bigger anyhow. It would take me longer to outgrow them that way she said, and wearing an extra pair of socks for awhile was cheaper than buying a new pair of shoes every six months. A practical woman she was, my mom.
Anyhow, I've seen old shoe horns at the antique store, but I haven't actually used one (or had one used on me) for going on 50 years.
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I have one given to me by one of our drivers last year. He is from Kenya and on a visit there, he bought me a key chain shoe horn made from Cape Buffalo horn.
My wife uses a shoe horn because she can't bend over far enough to get her shoes on.
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we have a couple here also, somedays it is easier to put the shoes on with it.
( not sure if it is due to age or the retirement belly)
Plyerman; yes, I can remember putting rolled up paper towards the toe of the shoe
on handmedowns.