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Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: kxxr on July 31, 2012, 06:58:07 PM

Title: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: kxxr on July 31, 2012, 06:58:07 PM

I got a few good ones to show off today. I think my favorites are the VBW pliers with the orange paint job. I think they are related to the Stahlwille group somehow but I don't know details. The Mac stubby bit driver is pretty nice too, and of course the New Britains are pretty spiffy also. I can't really pick a favorite. I think the Kane socket is SK, but I'm only guessing. Does anyone know anything about them?
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/vbw966pliers.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/vbw966.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/vbw4.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/vbw2.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/vbw1.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/nbpliers.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/2nbpliers.jpg)
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/macBH1.jpg)
The top one says Walden SpinTite 3118 on the shaft, the bottom one is a Husky USA CM64
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/waldhusky.jpg)
I think there are a few more of these Kane sockets where I got this one if anyone is after them.
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/kane1.jpg)

Title: Re: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: rusty on July 31, 2012, 07:51:09 PM

Hmm....Kane...SKwayne....

Do you suppose it was an aborted attempt at a new composite name?

I like the way the pin in the red pliers is side cammed so it won't slip and bust half your knuckles...

Title: Re: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: OilyRascal on July 31, 2012, 08:43:49 PM

sexy looking New Britain pliers!

Title: Re: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: lauver on August 22, 2012, 08:35:37 PM

kxxr,

Your spiffy New Britain pliers are known as battery pliers; pretty common back in the day, but way cool!  I have them in several different brands and slight variations.

Another name for the NB pliers is "KEEPERS" (as in don't sell or trade them).

Title: Re: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: john k on August 22, 2012, 09:31:49 PM

The battery pliers are still useful, lots of half inch nuts still being used on battery clamps.  The red pliers are very similar to a group of tools that Matco tools was marketing 10=12 years ago, pliers and screwdrivers, but the pliers all had rubber grips.  That tiny MAC bit holder is, I believe from a small kit that they sold 15-20 years ago, anyway that is the bell that rings for me.  MAC often marketed tools in their montly special handouts, that were not in their tool catalogs. 

Title: Re: VBW, MAC, HUSKY, WALDEN, NEW BRITAIN, KANE
Post by: Provincial on August 23, 2012, 01:33:25 AM

The red VBW pliers sure look like the ancestor to the current Knipex pliers.  Same hinge pin, same 3-layer hinge design, and the jaws even have the same design.

I use my battery pliers all the time.  Most of my batteries are top post and have half inch nuts.  These pliers also put a death-grip on round pieces around 1/2" in diameter.