How about a game....Name that Tool.

[Helmholtz]

BTW, all Knipex tools are excellent.

[nevetslab]

Here's another tool you don't need often, but wish you had when you need one. This tool will save a lot of cussing and crawling around on the floor.

THAT is a properly built Snap Ring or C-Ring tool! The one I bought years ago doesn't rate with the normal caliber of tools I own, and one day I'll get one of these. That DOES look like a high quality tool! NICE. I think one has to have a small supply of the same C-ring's before going in to remove one. They're far wose than just dropping a part 3 feet off the bench to take a football bounce. These launch into low-earth orbit, and you hear that brief 'tinkle' when they hit something, but don't really know from where.

[The Dude]

Yes, if you do a lot of work with those clips, something like this is essential.


Fortunately, I don't do much of it anymore- since the VCR went the way of the dinosaur. I couldn't say the last time I even worked on an open reel machine or even a CD player. Most of the stuff with moving parts is either extinct or throw away/replaceable.

[J M Fahey]

Ok: Lyman 310 "pocket" cartridge reloading press.
Here with full die set for 30-06 Springfield:



I remember there is a couple reloaders or shooters in the Forum

[nevetslab]

Ok: Lyman 310 "pocket" cartridge reloading press.
Here with full die set for 30-06 Springfield:



I remember there is a couple reloaders or shooters in the Forum

I never would have guess that one. Even seeing the rest of the tool assembly parts, I still wouldn't have guessed that one.

[nosaj]

Yes, if you do a lot of work with those clips, something like this is essential.


Fortunately, I don't do much of it anymore- since the VCR went the way of the dinosaur. I couldn't say the last time I even worked on an open reel machine or even a CD player. Most of the stuff with moving parts is either extinct or throw away/replaceable.

I was just asked to go through a whole bunch of Sony 300 cd machines.
nosaj

[nevetslab]

Here's one of a couple essential tools used by a woodwind instrument player.

A hint. If you're an oboist, you 'd know this tool along with that thin metal part.

[big_teee]

Hint, a telecomm tool.

[galaxiex]

Not electronic related...

These are Cleco pliers.

Used to install or remove Cleco pins.

[galaxiex]

Hint, a telecomm tool.

Punch down tool?

[big_teee]

It is an old antiquated tool for pulling lamp bulbs in and out of the old Bell Switchboards.
I have one in my retired comm tech tool box.
Here is the bulb that it pulls in and out of the lamp hole.
T

[nosaj]

I have some that are red painted wood on one side .
nosaj

[J M Fahey]

It is an old antiquated tool for pulling lamp bulbs in and out of the old Bell Switchboards.
I have one in my retired comm tech tool box.
Here is the bulb that it pulls in and out of the lamp hole.

Sadly your thumb is covering the actual connector, but I remember "in the old days" I used to buy 48V "telephone lamps" where contacts were on both sides of a plastic wedge, so they would pressure fit and stay there, then pulled easily straight back, no screwing or bayonet twisting, very handy.

I also bought the matching connectors.

Standard in most amps was the ubiquitous "Fender" jewel 6.3V lamp ... but my transistor amps had no filament windings available, while I could straight connect these to 40-45V rails.

We are talking pre-Led, dinosaurs roaming the Earth days.

I am certain Enzo would have had a comment on that

The option, of course, was straight Mains neon lamps, but those glow weak.

[nevetslab]

Here's one of a couple essential tools used by a woodwind instrument player.

While this thread seems to have stalled out, I'll spill the beans on what this tool is used for, as well as that long/narrow thin oval spring steel tool is and used for. This tool is called a Mandrel, and used to mount the raw 'Stem' onto which soaked/shaped French Reed Can is tied onto in an air-tight fashion for scraping out/fine-tuning oboe reeds. It's a skill that virtually all oboists have to learn so they can make their own reeds to fit their mouth's armature. Takes a fair amount of time to master this skill, but is essential.



The cork-wrapped shaped brass 'stem' fits onto the Mandrel, upon which a pre-shaped and soaked oboe reed cane 'blank' is aligned and fitted, and then is wrapped with waxed thin cord to hold the unscraped blank into place, and tied off with a couple knots at the base of the cork. These are left to dry a day or two before the scraping process is begun. The basic shape, of which there are many, are scrapped out before the tip where the cane was initially creased/folded is cut off, opening the two halves of the cane reed. That thin long oval piece called a Plaque is inserted into the reed at the end, and is held in place during the final scraping process.

Here's a pdf file that outlines the art of reed making.

https://www.cui.edu/Portals/0/assets...aking-2021.pdf

The things one must to do play an instrument like this. No wonder oboists eventually go mad.

[g1]

Here's an oldie.