Quote from: turnnut on February 09, 2015, 10:04:43 PM
I live about an hours drive from Willimantic, CT ....

Turnnut, I live in Southington. What town are you from?

bunger;

   Monson, Mass.  Rt. 32 runs thru Monson, just above Stafford Springs, CT.

   am retired from Pratt & Whitney, E. Hartford after 28 1/2 years of almost
   80 mile round trip.
   they were going to send me to Southington for a year.  no way, way too far
   to travel as I got older.

Wow, 28 years of I91 twice a day. That's a hell of a commute.
I'm lucky I work 1.2 miles from home.

   bunger,  I took rt 84 from Tolland, CT

   sometimes I would start on 84 and jump on 83 for a change of scenery.
   and come home the back way.

   I called my driving time my "thinking time"

   but the winters were not the best,  leave for work in the dark, return in the dark.   

Grew up in Montville, we used to drive to the Stop and Shop in Willamantic when I was a child, about 45 drive every week but fond memories.

Very similar pliers are sold nowadays as orthodontic loop-forming pliers; also as jeweler's loop-forming pliers. (Search ebay for 'orthodontic pliers loop')

Thanks for that info! How about finding the Introduction Forum and telling us a bit about yourself and your tool interests?