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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: bleonard on May 12, 2018, 08:27:01 PM

Title: heller bros nippers
Post by: bleonard on May 12, 2018, 08:27:01 PM

my heller bros nippers has JLC or JIC on the tool dos anyone know
Bleonard

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: mikeswrenches on May 12, 2018, 08:34:32 PM

Might be an owners mark.

Mike

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: bleonard on June 03, 2018, 10:33:22 PM

bump

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: amecks on June 04, 2018, 06:56:04 AM

Likely owners initials.  Please post a picture.

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: bill300d on June 04, 2018, 09:31:57 PM

That would be my assumption too.

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: bleonard on June 05, 2018, 05:25:31 PM

Sorry I don't have the capability of taking or posting photos. I did research on line and found other nippers like mine and in several cases had the same letters, JIC, forged or stamped on the tool.
Bleonard

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: skipskip on June 08, 2018, 09:56:08 PM

could be a mark from the foundry or forger

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: keykeeper on June 10, 2018, 10:11:07 PM

I have seen the same mark on Heller Nippers a few times, as I have owned probably a dozen or so sets of them over the years. I have also seen it used on tongs for blacksmith work.

I think the the JIC was a mark used for ID from the factory for possibly a certain organization that purchased many tools from them. I just can't remember what it stood for...Job ?? Council or something along those lines.

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: bleonard on June 19, 2018, 12:29:43 AM

Thank you to everyone who responded to my question about the letters JIC on the Heller nips. Maybe we will never know. Thank you very much.
Bleonard

Title: Re: heller bros nippers
Post by: mikeswrenches on July 04, 2018, 07:36:15 PM

The only JIC that I know of, other than an owners mark, is the Joint Industrial Counci.
They established standards for certain industries. Hydraulics and electrical being two I am familiar with. Whether they also had standards for 'smith related items I don’t know. Just a thought.

Mike