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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: fflintstone on October 05, 2013, 10:10:32 PM

Title: my recent finds.
Post by: fflintstone on October 05, 2013, 10:10:32 PM

$11.25 total expenditure.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img850/8186/swob.jpg)

while not full, just to clarify size wise, they are 5lb spools and not 1lb.

(http://imageshack.us/a/img690/7789/2lqo.jpg)


(http://imageshack.us/a/img34/9017/ywro.jpg)

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: oldtools on October 07, 2013, 04:05:30 AM

Nice!!  Interesting clamp..

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: fflintstone on October 07, 2013, 01:23:18 PM

Quote from: oldtools on October 07, 2013, 04:05:30 AM

Nice!!  Interesting clamp..

Thanks, I like the clamp and would like more like it for welding.

I doubt many people know what the tool above it is.

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: skipskip on October 07, 2013, 04:29:01 PM

something to do with springs?  curling the ends or clipping them?
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Thanks, I like the clamp and would like more like it for welding.

I doubt many people know what the tool above it is.
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Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: fflintstone on October 07, 2013, 09:27:31 PM

Quote from: skipskip on October 07, 2013, 04:29:01 PM

something to do with springs?  curling the ends or clipping them?

nope, but if no one gets it I will PM you.

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: oldtools on October 08, 2013, 01:38:26 PM

the tool looks like a bandit type clamp tool, like the type for CV boot clamps...

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: oldgoaly on October 08, 2013, 04:25:54 PM

looks like one of those pliers that open up a castration ring.  also can be use to remove tails from farm animals.

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: bill300d on October 08, 2013, 05:15:19 PM

wire-tie tool?  for tightening wire-ties

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: fflintstone on October 09, 2013, 09:37:26 AM

nope, nope, nope.

it is a modern tool, not old, but what it works on has been around for a century.

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: toolmiser on October 09, 2013, 04:25:04 PM

I think it is used for breaking glass or tile after scoring them.

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: HeelSpur on October 09, 2013, 06:15:31 PM

Quote from: toolmiser on October 09, 2013, 04:25:04 PM

I think it is used for breaking glass or tile after scoring them.

Same here...

Title: Re: my recent finds.
Post by: fflintstone on October 09, 2013, 07:13:52 PM

Nope!
It is for tightening brake/shift cables on a bicycle.
The cable goes thru the notch in the lower jaw, when you squeeze the cable is pinched between the curved piece and the flange on the upper jaw and is pulled taught. Then you tighten down whatever clamps the cable on the brake or derailleur.