Ever notice how most threads here are about the cheap Chinese crap from HF or PA?
I thought I would share wuth you a couple of my antique tools.
Actualy these are daily drivers too lol..
The screw driver may not look familiar to my American friends but that in a Geniun PL Robertson #2 screw driver from the 1950s.
What made the tool unique was the square head screw PL pattented.
You can put the screw in the bit in the end and turn it upside down.
It will not fall out and it will not cam out when you torque the screw like a blade or phillips.
Story goes Henry Ford liked it so much he tried to buy it from old PL, but PL refused.
The screws were stamped so they were cheaper to make than traditional blade screws.
But PL knew he had something good and sold them for more reasoning a Premium screw would be worth it.
And when the tip worn out he would sell you a new insert instead of the whole tool so it was made of cheaper to make steel but still had a fine tool steel end.
A foot note screw only popular with electricians, but in Canada its the only screw you realy want to use.....
The other is a fine crimping tool made int he USA by Bucanana tool called a Pres-Sure.
This tool went back to the early days of wiring homes.
Back then the electrician had to run around with a solder pot and dip all the twisted ends for form a connection.
This had the tendency to cause a lot of burns and fires.
Other mechanical means of joining wires used plyers and this meant the crimp was not always as tight as it should be.
The Pres-Sure has four hard to see pins that crush a copper furl down on the sires you want to splice and they never ever come off.
Although this too is a foot note tool that I don't think they even make anymore the furls are still made and if you look inside most quality American made electrical equipment the factory probably used an industrial version of this to make the connections inside.
Wire nuts came later but they never matched the Sure-Pres for a reliable crimp.
I use this tool too but today I use the wire nuts more than the furls and this tool is mostly for un insulated ring termninal I never want to fall apart...
So check out the yard sales on your way to the cheap Chinese tool store.
maybe you find a classic tool thats better....
I thought I would share wuth you a couple of my antique tools.
Actualy these are daily drivers too lol..
The screw driver may not look familiar to my American friends but that in a Geniun PL Robertson #2 screw driver from the 1950s.
What made the tool unique was the square head screw PL pattented.
You can put the screw in the bit in the end and turn it upside down.
It will not fall out and it will not cam out when you torque the screw like a blade or phillips.
Story goes Henry Ford liked it so much he tried to buy it from old PL, but PL refused.
The screws were stamped so they were cheaper to make than traditional blade screws.
But PL knew he had something good and sold them for more reasoning a Premium screw would be worth it.
And when the tip worn out he would sell you a new insert instead of the whole tool so it was made of cheaper to make steel but still had a fine tool steel end.
A foot note screw only popular with electricians, but in Canada its the only screw you realy want to use.....
The other is a fine crimping tool made int he USA by Bucanana tool called a Pres-Sure.
This tool went back to the early days of wiring homes.
Back then the electrician had to run around with a solder pot and dip all the twisted ends for form a connection.
This had the tendency to cause a lot of burns and fires.
Other mechanical means of joining wires used plyers and this meant the crimp was not always as tight as it should be.
The Pres-Sure has four hard to see pins that crush a copper furl down on the sires you want to splice and they never ever come off.
Although this too is a foot note tool that I don't think they even make anymore the furls are still made and if you look inside most quality American made electrical equipment the factory probably used an industrial version of this to make the connections inside.
Wire nuts came later but they never matched the Sure-Pres for a reliable crimp.
I use this tool too but today I use the wire nuts more than the furls and this tool is mostly for un insulated ring termninal I never want to fall apart...
So check out the yard sales on your way to the cheap Chinese tool store.
maybe you find a classic tool thats better....
