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Offline Branson

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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2011, 08:24:40 AM »
I haven't run across any 6 inchers.  Yet.  Yes, the balance is good -- really feels like an extension of the hand.
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Offline lbgradwell

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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2011, 11:08:49 AM »
A Canadian-made example!

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Offline Branson

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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2011, 06:19:05 PM »
Quote from: lbgradwell on December 22, 2011, 11:08:49 AM
A Canadian-made example!


Oh yeah!  I did notice those!
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Offline Stoney

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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2011, 07:03:29 PM »
Here are 3 of my favorite Buttons


From left a pair of 8 inch Utica 1000-8, an 8 inch pair marked Bannet Forged and a pair of 6 inch unmarked.
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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2012, 02:05:45 AM »
I picked up a pair last week at the flea, from a guy I buy old tools from.

My Crescent has 1008-8 on it.  Same as Utica.  Interesting that 1008-8 was used by Crescent and Utica.
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Offline lbgradwell

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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2012, 08:50:16 AM »
Quote from: Stoney on December 26, 2011, 07:03:29 PM
From left a pair of 8 inch Utica 1000-8...

Quote from: Tool Pants on January 22, 2012, 02:05:45 AM
My Crescent has 1008-8 on it.  Same as Utica.  Interesting that 1008-8 was used by Crescent and Utica.

Stoney actually says the Uticas are 1000-8; I can't make out the number on the actual tool...

But Cooper Industries ended up with both Crescent & Utica, so..?
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Re: Button Pliers?
« Reply #21 on: January 22, 2012, 01:20:37 PM »
I saved Stoney's picture and then enlarged it.  It has Utica 1000-8 USA on it.  So why does Utica and Crescent have the same model number?. 

From reading AA, Utica and Crescent were not under Cooper until around 1968.  AA has a pic of my Crescent and dates it from the 1940s, but god knows how many decades it was made.  Cooper/Crescent still uses the part number for fence pliers.  At the present time the Utica name is used by Cooper just for torque wrenches. 

Also, the Crescent is stamped Jamestown, which means it is old.  Don't know when Jameston was no longer stamped on the Crescent tools.   
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