[TheForge] Cheap scroll tongs, (or maybe wrong tool for the job)

[dann]

I bought a few pair of 9 inch end nippers  for $3.49  at harbor 
freight  to  adapt quickly into
small forge tongs.   I saw them later in a sale catalog for  under $2 
each.  Motivation was that   I paid  about  $30 for a back-ordered   small 
tongs at the November UMBA meeting at Centaur Forge, that  hasn't  been 
delivered yet.

Dann Johnson

At 11:14 AM 1/18/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Yesterday I was wondering around the "Northern Industrial Tools" store
>here in San Antonio when I spotted a package containing 2 sets of large
>(13") snap ring pliers.  One straight set, one at 90 deg.  They are 13"
>long and the tips are 2 3/8 long tapering from 3/8 down to  about 1/8
>inch at the tip.  They were $8.99 for the two.  I picked them up and
>will give them a try as scroll tongs next time I build a fire.  I
>realize they will not be of H13 and will have to watch the heat I put
>into them, but they should work for the small art items I sometime try
>to tweak up.
>
>Larry
>
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