Tool Talk

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: amecks on February 24, 2019, 09:46:51 AM

Title: Tools at Wintercycle Therapy yesterday
Post by: amecks on February 24, 2019, 09:46:51 AM

A motorcycle show to relieve "cabin fever" at the Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport NY.  This wall of tools hangs in the Restoration Shop.
(https://i.postimg.cc/VNFpNfk4/IMG-8038.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
In an outbuilding they are rebuilding this P40 that crashed in the Everglades.
(https://i.postimg.cc/6pr1HWnw/IMG-8052.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
What can you tell me about this pair of pliers?  What would they have used for?  Can't read the top line, second line "JAMESTOWN, NY", third line - possibly a patent date that looks like "--T SEPT 01 1908.  WAIT!!! I searched Jamestown on AA and found them!  Patent Sept 8, 1903.
(http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcxNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA547&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2dVypN-EMl1lkjp-BvLmQlkmB9Qw&ci=44%2C143%2C873%2C1343&edge=0)
(https://i.postimg.cc/76dpFB6y/IMG-8039.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/njKR7GBd)

Title: Re: Tools at Wintercycle Therapy yesterday
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 24, 2019, 10:11:05 AM

(http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcxNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA547&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2dVypN-EMl1lkjp-BvLmQlkmB9Qw&ci=44%2C143%2C873%2C1343&edge=0)
William Hjortke and Co.?

Title: Re: Tools at Wintercycle Therapy yesterday
Post by: amecks on February 24, 2019, 10:21:21 AM

Hjorth - I found them on AA where that ad was pictured.  It may be confusing with the 2 other company names in the ad.  Apparently the distributor (New York) and the retailer (San Francisco). 

Title: Re: Tools at Wintercycle Therapy yesterday
Post by: coolford on February 24, 2019, 02:11:28 PM

As the advertisement mentions, they are for use on pipe.  I have a couple of the sizes.

Title: Re: Tools at Wintercycle Therapy yesterday
Post by: Northwoods on February 24, 2019, 04:50:15 PM

Piping for gas lights?