Pliers identity.

[RunningBean]

'Any knowledgeable folk who may know what these pliers are used for ?
There's no makers name on them, just an interesting old tool that I found in a bucket of scrap yard tools.

Anyway, just something interesting, maybe : ) thanks in advance.

 

[RandomGrinch]

Google lens suggests they may be 'glaziers pliers'?

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6" Vintage Glaziers Pliers 33596

vintagetoolshop.com

 

[RunningBean]

Google lens suggests they may be 'glaziers pliers'?

6

6" Vintage Glaziers Pliers 33596

vintagetoolshop.com

I think you're spot on there, thank you.
The slight angle in the closed position is the same too.
I have loads of old tools, lots of Record Stillson types, pump pliers from my old job.
It's interesting, the prices people ask for this stuff. I've given away quality Record vices because my workshop is so crammed.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I think the Vintage Tool Shop has got the description above wrong - glass pliers don't have serrated jaws. All the glaziers pliers I've ever seen have far wider jaws:

Personally I think they are nut pliers. Easier to use in confined spaces where you can't get an adjustable wrench or spanners in, such as the interior of a radio set or on a motorbike. Probably pre-date the introduction of socket sets

I therefore Googled "nut pliers" and got these vintage motorcycle nut pliers:

and these modern nut pliers from Bahco:

Serrated jaws on nut pliers make more sense to me

 

[RandomGrinch]

Personally I think they are nut pliers

That makes a lot of sense - I knew you'd have the answer!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Sad, I know, but I also had 30-odd years riding (and therefore maintaining) various old British bikes, so I have had such tools in various original tool kits. I had a few bikes where the points were fixed in place with a square nut that no socket would ever fit (come to think of it I had a few cars like that, too). Even Honda used to include something similar in their tool kits in the 1970s

 

[Diver Fred]

'Any knowledgeable folk who may know what these pliers are used for ?
There's no makers name on them, just an interesting old tool that I found in a bucket of scrap yard tools.

Anyway, just something interesting, maybe : ) thanks in advance.

For the ex-BT people they are 'Nut Runners".

 

[Mottie]

Pliers is on the right. You’re welcome.

 

[conny]

I think the Vintage Tool Shop has got the description above wrong - glass pliers don't have serrated jaws. All the glaziers pliers I've ever seen have far wider jaws:

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Personally I think they are nut pliers. Easier to use in confined spaces where you can't get an adjustable wrench or spanners in, such as the interior of a radio set or on a motorbike. Probably pre-date the introduction of socket sets

I therefore Googled "nut pliers" and got these vintage motorcycle nut pliers:

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and these modern nut pliers from Bahco:

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Serrated jaws on nut pliers make more sense to me

Those top pliers, (glazier pliers), are widely used in the armature winding business. We called them 'flats' because quite often we would 'manufacture' our own from a 'normal' pair of large pliers to help straighten or twist flat copper wire. They were expensive to buy as an apprentice so we would weld the inner faces to fill the hollows and then grind and file them flat. We used to have 3 or 4 different sizes for different jobs.