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Offline PFSchaffner

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pin-holding pliers (Utica)
« 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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Offline Aunt Phil

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Re: pin-holding pliers (Utica)
« Reply #1 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.
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Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: pin-holding pliers (Utica)
« Reply #2 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.
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