[GreenKeys] 2 WU tools and one thing like a key but bet it is really a sw...

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

Thanks  for  this  info  Roy! I had never seen anything  like  this  before.
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
 
 
In a message dated 4/21/2015 4:39:02 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
k1lky68 at gmail.com writes:


On  Apr 21, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys  
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> 2 WU  tools and  one  thing like a key but bet it is really a switch   
device…??

The two-handled pliers like thing is an "Adjustable-Jaw Cut  Nipper" piano 
wire nippers, made by the L.S. Starrett company.  They are  still made as 
far as I know and are priced at some hundred dollars or more.  They were/are 
made in two different sizes. The jaws are very hard steel and  are both 
replaceable and adjustable.  If you search the L.S. Starrett web  site you may 
find both the nippers and the replacement blades offered for  sale. At least 
they are shown, whether they actually have any I don’t  know.  I can’t find 
any price shown.  I would not expect any current  product to be up the 
quality of the original UhMerrican made tools of years  ago.

The smaller size (5-1/2 inch) is shown  at:
<http://www.starrett.com/metrology/product-detail/1-Precision-Measuring-Tool
s/11-Precision-Hand-Tools/1116-Precision-Shop-Tools/111611-Other-Shop-Tools/
1X-5%201~2>
and  the larger size (7 inch) is  at:
<http://www.starrett.com/metrology/product-detail/1-Precision-Measuring-Tool
s/11-Precision-Hand-Tools/1116-Precision-Shop-Tools/111611-Other-Shop-Tools/
1X-7>

It  appears to me that your tool is the smaller one.

Basically, there is no  more capable or strong wire cutters made on the 
face of the earth.

Some  examples of these nippers I have seen (very few!) have broken or even 
missing  jaws.  It appears that all parts of the nippers are available from 
 Starrett.  It’s quite possible that your tool will have Western Electric  
tool markings.  If so, it was made by Starrett for them with specific  
markings.  

I have a linesman wire pliers tool of this sort: made  by Utica Tool 
Company and marked “Lubring Patented”. Maybe the “Lubring” mark  was used by 
Utica,  abut 8-1/2” long.  Classic linesman’s plier form  with serrated jaws 
and wire cutter jaws.  Very heavy.  I thought I  had such a tool marked for 
WU but I may have been mistaken in that.

(If  you want to “de-access” your pair of nippers, let me know!)  HAH!

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky68 at gmail.com
K1LKY Since  1958

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