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Title: pin-holding pliers (Utica)
Post by: PFSchaffner on July 28, 2015, 04:15:36 PM

Aside from the general need to hold round stock (?), is there any more specific purpose or name to these pliers? Marked U.D.F.& T. Co. Utica NY USA, i.e. Utica Drop Forge and Tool Company, which I gather is a predecessor of Utica Tools.

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Title: Re: pin-holding pliers (Utica)
Post by: Aunt Phil on July 28, 2015, 10:40:05 PM

Telephone switch man heat coil pliers from back in the time of x-Y switches. 

Handy as hell for pulling glass fses out of Chevy pickups and installing a new fuse too.

Title: Re: pin-holding pliers (Utica)
Post by: Bill Houghton on July 29, 2015, 01:23:00 PM

Quote from: Aunt Phil on July 28, 2015, 10:40:05 PM

Handy as hell for pulling glass fses out of Chevy pickups...

Especially nice, then, while you're lying on your back on the floor of the cab, twisting like a contortionist, trying to reach a fuse panel up under the dash.  There's a special circle of hell for (some) Chevrolet engineers.