I have a strange set of pliers with no markings so I'm guessing it's maybe a hog ring crimper or something like that and the other photo is a set of ferrous metal tubes numbered 1-9 that stack together and have no ferrous propeller type ends on them. A couple of them are rusted together right now and awaiting the PB Blaste bath, but what could these possibley be used for??  Appears that the ferrous-non ferrous metal attachment was done by soldering.

TIA folks

DM&FS

The ferrous tubes look like the cork stopper cutters I put on several months ago.

Never woulda guessed that.  So why would someone make a cork stopper that small and for what application? 


Thanks for the quick response Wrenchie.

DM&FS

My guess for the top item is ear tag pliers for livestock.

The cork (and rubber) cutters were used in chemistry labs for "plumbing" all the glassware together.
Graeme

In the "old" days, when medicine came in glass bottles, liquid as well as pills, some of those bottles were tiny, and all were stoppered by corks.  Corkscew was one of the most important tools in the house.    Neat looking set of cutters.

A complete set of these are stored inside each other.  I saw a set once but don't remember exactly how many there were.  Also there is a tool that is used to sharpen the "business" end of these.  It is like a smooth tapered reamer that has a blade like device attached to it that essentially scrapes the taper on the cutting end.  The tool will sharpen all the sizes.  The taper goes in the end and the whole tool is rotated to sharpen the end

This is a tool that is hard to describe.  If you saw one in the "wild" you would wonder what it was for. 

Maybe someone has a picture they can post.  In this instance a picture would be worth a thousand words.

Mike

Thanks for  the info.  I need to get 6 and 7 unstuck before I go any further, and the solder joint failed due to "duress" in trying to separate them.   Yeah I was gentle with hem, but solder is no match for a drift and a soft jaw vise, no matter how small the hammer!!

Modern one- http://www.aryalabware.com/cork-borers-brass-329.html


Discussed here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=4189.msg26101#msg26101

And here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=2892.msg17321#msg17321