healeydays
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I thought I would bring this back to life and share a minor trick. I need to cleanly wrap a coin/watchface etc. around a tube and was doing it with a trench cut in a block of wood and pressing it in. It works great, but was looking to do something a little better and quicker.
I was at a local fleamarket a few weeks ago and I came across a guy who had a bunch of old pliers for sale. I'm looking at one and it has a 9mm hole in it for holding wire and scoring it. Well I paid the guy a couple bucks and took it home to play with and found it works perfect with a 8mm rod and the item on the rod to bend the item to fit most pen blanks I wanted to make and if I needed to adjust a little for a particular blank, so be it.
Well, looking at Ebay last night I saw one that was it's twin brother.
Good Condition Vintage Utica Tool Co 7" Pliers Pliers Snips Spac BX100 | eBay
It is a set of Utica BX100 armor-cutting specialty pliers, intended for working with BX (armored) electrical cable. One handle is stamped "Utica Tools" and "Utica, N.Y. U.S.A." above the pivot, with "S.P.A.C." on the lower handle. The reverse is stamped with a "Pat. 1934 USA No. 1970983" patent notice.
The indent does have a little lip as to grab the cable and score it, but what I did was clean them up and fill the little valleys with epoxy and then sanded them smooth giving me a great bending tool.
Mike B
I was at a local fleamarket a few weeks ago and I came across a guy who had a bunch of old pliers for sale. I'm looking at one and it has a 9mm hole in it for holding wire and scoring it. Well I paid the guy a couple bucks and took it home to play with and found it works perfect with a 8mm rod and the item on the rod to bend the item to fit most pen blanks I wanted to make and if I needed to adjust a little for a particular blank, so be it.
Well, looking at Ebay last night I saw one that was it's twin brother.
Good Condition Vintage Utica Tool Co 7" Pliers Pliers Snips Spac BX100 | eBay
It is a set of Utica BX100 armor-cutting specialty pliers, intended for working with BX (armored) electrical cable. One handle is stamped "Utica Tools" and "Utica, N.Y. U.S.A." above the pivot, with "S.P.A.C." on the lower handle. The reverse is stamped with a "Pat. 1934 USA No. 1970983" patent notice.
The indent does have a little lip as to grab the cable and score it, but what I did was clean them up and fill the little valleys with epoxy and then sanded them smooth giving me a great bending tool.
Mike B
