Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: WiebeLC on August 17, 2012, 04:04:44 PM
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Can anybody tell me what these pliers were used for and who made them. I can't find any identifying marks on them. We found them in one of our buildings that had been used for storage for many years
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Seems my mother used something like that to lift Mason jars out of a boiling pot, and my wife used one when sterilizing baby bottles.
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Probably came with an old camping cook kit for lifting hot pots off of the stove or fire.
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Seems my mother used something like that to lift Mason jars out of a boiling pot, and my wife used one when sterilizing baby bottles.
As I recall, the mason jar tongs had jaws that grabbed both sides of the top. Baby bottle tongs is what they look like to me.
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I believe that is a pan gripper. You use them for pans that don't have a large lip such as a pizza pan.
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Pan lifters - similar are sold with Trangia camping stoves in the UK
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These pliers belong to the museum where I work. I was trying to do the museum documentation that is required before an object can be displayed. I couldn't find pan lifters in the nomenclature book that we use, but I found pot lifter. When I Googled that, I found pictures similar to our object. Thank you for the help.
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Which museum do you work in?
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I work at the La Crete Mennonite Heritage Village in La Crete, Alberta, Canada.