Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Plyerman on June 12, 2019, 06:22:28 PM
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Any ideas? I'm thinking possibly chain pliers, but that's just a wild guess.
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they feel medical/veterinary at all?
Skip
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they feel medical/veterinary at all?
Skip
Hmmm, not really. The end of one handle is formed into a screwdriver tip.
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I find it odd that you listed this tool the same day that I cleaned one getting ready for a tractor show. I have never seen one before, and now that makes 2 in one day. I will have to look at mine more closely tomorrow, and see if I can come up with a guess.
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Battery post? With crimper?
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I go with chain pliers.
Completely different than current ones.
The tips appear to be designed to open and spread chain.
The internal notches seem to be to close links of chain.
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I go with chain pliers.
Completely different than current ones.
The tips appear to be designed to open and spread chain.
The internal notches seem to be to close links of chain.
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Another nice find!
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I'm leaning to Lou, definite crimper and the end spreader.
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I find it odd that you listed this tool the same day that I cleaned one getting ready for a tractor show. I have never seen one before, and now that makes 2 in one day. I will have to look at mine more closely tomorrow, and see if I can come up with a guess.
Are there any markings on yours wv? Mine are only stamped PAT. PEND'G on both faces.
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I will have to check this weekend. My loaner work Jeep broke down 2 hours from home. I am lucky I did not wreck. I think a wheel bearing went bad and it started wobbling, breaking off 2 of the 5 wheel studs. My regular work Jeep was already in the shop getting transmission work.
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Mine say they same thing on them -- Pat. Pend. on both sides of the pliers.
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Wow, sounds like you had an exciting day. I had a wheel bearing "incident" myself a few years ago. The damn things never seem to go bad in the driveway at home, unfortunately.
Anyhow, thanks for checking on the plier tool. I'm still leaning towards it being a chain tool, just because it seems to duplicate the functions of other "known" chain pliers, like this one:
from Datamp
(http://www.datamp.org/images/49637-1.jpg)
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Once I looked at those spreaders on the end of it, I decided you were right about it being a chain tool. They look more convincing in person than on a photo.
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I tried using Bing's "Search Images" feature. It returned a couple hundred similar images of which about 50 are other tools that we can't figure out what they're for. :huh:
When you guys were saying chain tool, I was thinking of roller chain and it didn't seem to fit. But now looking at Plyermans post with the link chain pliers, I am on board with chain tool. I need to look in my pliers box and see if there's chain pliers in there.
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Pliers marked with the Weed name were mfg. for tire chains-don't know if chains were on auto tires that early??
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Pliers marked with the Weed name were mfg. for tire chains-don't know if chains were on auto tires that early??
All this investigation has made me realize there are (at least) three different applications for "chain pliers".
- Tire chain pliers, with WEED type being the most common.
- Roller chain pliers
- Lighting fixture chain pliers, with the type shown in patent 1,320,547 above being the most common.
It seems like the pliery tool I have would most likely be the lighting fixture chain type? But I'm not 100% sure, because the spreader jaws are relatively wide (about 3/4") whereas on the patent 1,320,547 tool the spreader jaws are narrow, in order to get inside of rounded chain links. Hmmm.
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Hello, I stand corrected!! I can see those coming in handy for lighting fixture chain!! Surely more effective and a lot less damaging to the chain than 2 lineman pliers to open & close the links. Regards, Lou
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I have little confidence in this, but it is an alternate to chain pliers.
Cable crimp pliers? Older aircraft has lots of cables that get crimped together...
Chilly
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Hello, Time to eat a little more crow. I dug these out of the garage, definitely Chain Pliers. In raised lettering on the handles MALLEABLE IRON ??? CHAIN PLIERS PATENTED.. Inside the handles; C P SCHRIVER CO. CIN. O. 1,320,547. The question marks are for three symbols I can't clearly read, possibly I X L. Regards, Lou
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Hello, Time to eat a little more crow. I dug these out of the garage, definitely Chain Pliers. In raised lettering on the handles MALLEABLE IRON ??? CHAIN PLIERS PATENTED.. Inside the handles; C P SCHRIVER CO. CIN. O. 1,320,547. The question marks are for three symbols I can't clearly read, possibly I X L. Regards, Lou
Pronounce I X L out loud -- Schriver's chain pliers were not the only tool to incorporate that claim in their brand. ( http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=1320547&typeCode=0 ) is the patent number.
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Thanks for the info. I read the patent info more thoroughly this time around!!! Regards, Lou