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Offline bunger

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Today's finds
« on: January 21, 2012, 06:41:12 PM »
Since we had a small snowstorm today, the outdoor flea market was closed.
So I headed to the indoor one where usually I come up empty, but not today.



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Barcalo 7" slip joint




Bonney stud extractor #2591




Williams 1/4" Superratchet - marked M-51 but it's lower handle grip is like the M-52 style




6" Bike wrench - marked with US inside a diamond. Anyone have any info on this mark?



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Offline kxxr

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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2012, 07:15:46 PM »
Especially like the williams. Nice score.
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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2012, 07:17:41 PM »
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"U.S." in a diamond logo
P. Lowentraut Mfg. Co. of Newark, New Jersey
Source: A listing from a 1909 hardware catalog from the Wright & Wilhelmy Co., Omaha, Nebraska) shows a listing for a "U. S. Bicycle Wrench" marked with both a U.S. in a diamond logo and "P. Lowentraut Mfg. Co., N.J.". Illustrated is a 5-1/2" side screw adjust type bicycle wrench. (from the Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter, Dec, 1988)
Logo has been seen on bicycle wrenches like the one illustrated in the catalog. 
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Offline Branson

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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 09:22:31 AM »
I like the pliers with the asymmetrical jaws.  I have a couple pairs of these, one heavy, one lighter construction.   I'm finding I have an interest in pliers.
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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 04:07:37 PM »

Fairmont made a pair with offset jaws like that also, I have never figured out what the idea behind it was supposed to be....

>I'm finding I have an interest in pliers.

Oh..NO...Now that's a slippery slope..pliers...nippers...cutters...punches...tongs....

Sure, you say....I will just do pliers...

Then there's Watchmakers pliers, Opticians pliers, Valve pliers, Hose pliers...
Cutting pliers, Nipping pliers, Forming pliers,Punching pliers, Button Pliers...

Parallel pliers, Offset pliers, Compound pliers,Locking pliers...

Sash-cord pliers, Sheet metal pliers,Soldering pliers,Wheel weight pliers
Stopper pulling pliers, Gas pliers,Glass pliers...

Ohhhhh.....yesssss...sssslippppery slope it is.....
MUHAHAHA
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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 05:51:29 PM »
>Oh..NO...Now that's a slippery slope..pliers...nippers...cutters...punches...tongs....

Oh, I'm set up with these already.  Got nippers, cutters, lots of punches, more tongs...

Sash-cord pliers?  What do those look like?!  Anything that makes messing with sash cords easier is
on my to buy list!
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Offline rusty

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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2012, 08:20:57 PM »

I dunno if these make messing with sash cord easier, or even if they were ever made. I just saved them because I thought it was an oddball type of specialty plier....

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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2012, 08:02:34 AM »
That is an oddball pair of pliers!  Thanks for the drawing!  Besides showing the pliers, it shows an old way of attaching cords to sash, one I've never seen, with the cord channel stopping before reaching the cord-knot detent.   Odd system.  I've worked on older sash than the patent date, and I've built a lot of sash, but this one is new to me.  And I've never seen a pair of these pliers.
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Re: Today's finds
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2012, 03:09:21 PM »
Rusty,

You plying us with a plethora of pliers prosody?
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