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RE: Latest Delivery - Highpower - 10-29-2015
(10-29-2015, 12:39 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: Feeling all team USA today
Anybody know anything of this company ?
Any of you lot state's side no of this manufacturer ? any good ? I wonder if the red and green grips are a deliberate nod to port and starboardanyway any days a good day when you get free tools
Rob
http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=1854
Rob,
There is currently (since 1980?) a company here named Lewis Machine and Tool, (weapons manufacturer) but no relation to the company you are asking about AFAIK.
The Wiss snips have been a staple here for as long as I can remember. Very common and very popular in the US. And yes, the red and green grips are visual clues to the port and starboard status of the cuts they are designed for. Straight cut snips have yellow grips. (The only pair I own...)
Edit to add: FREE tools? Yeah,
RE: Latest Delivery - RobWilson - 10-29-2015
Cheers Willie
That a very interesting link ,a site I will have to good dig around in .
the site has a downloadable copy of the brochure I have . I thought the color coding is very cunning ,smart idea ,well as long as you know your port from starboard
. Well I better have a look of Ebay for a yellow handled set .They do look well made , I will give them a test drive at the weekend on the forge hood .
Rob
RE: Latest Delivery - dallen - 10-29-2015
the company in question isn't in business now I believe.
and yes the red and green denotes right hand cut and left hand cut, there is also a pair that have yellow handles for straight cuts.
RE: Latest Delivery - Hawkeye - 10-29-2015
I got my new DROs today. One set for the Victoria U2 and one set for the RF-30. I had iGaging units on before, but I figured, as long as I'm rebuilding the shop, I might as well upgrade wherever possible.
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RE: Latest Delivery - Mayhem - 10-30-2015
Usually I am in the US for a couple of weeks this time of year. However, various things conspired against me this year. Fortunately, my Mum went over to visit friends and just returned, so I managed to get some bits shipped to where she was staying.
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The MT4 drill drift, 1.0mm, 1.5mm and 2.0mm slitting saws and the #3 and #6 Jacobs chuck removal wedges all came via Enco. The Prototex H M10x1.5 spiral point tap is from eBay and the S-VMSP 138R 45CF chamfer/face mill is from Ken's source.
RE: Latest Delivery - Pete O - 10-30-2015
(10-29-2015, 12:39 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: I was also given these today
Any of you lot state's side no of this manufacturer ? any good ? I wonder if the red and green grips are a deliberate nod to port and starboard
Rob
![[Image: P1100504_zpszcgprnez.jpg]](http://s1066.photobucket.com/user/RobWilson100/media/P1100504_zpszcgprnez.jpg.html)
I worked for a short while in a sheetmetal shop several decades ago and those snips were the preferred brand here as well Rob. The blokes showed me how they were used on the left and right side of the guillotine but it was not til years later that I realised the obvious port and starboard thing. When I had to buy some snips for myself, the lady in the hardware shop asked if I was left or right handed!
RE: Latest Delivery - chucketn - 10-30-2015
http://www.wisstool.com/index.cfm
Chuck
RE: Latest Delivery - TomG - 10-30-2015
Wiss aviation snips are the industry standard. I used to do a lot of aircraft sheet metal work and those were all we used. They also makes an offset version that works much better for cutting contours in the middle of a large sheet. Unlike a lot of the old US tool lines, these are still actually made in the US, the Cooper plant in North Carolina I believe.
Here is a Wiss timeline.
Tom
RE: Latest Delivery - wawoodman - 10-30-2015
I stay away from snips. Over the years, I have discovered that all I have to do is LOOK at a piece of sheet metal, and I'm cut and bleeding somewhere!
RE: Latest Delivery - EdK - 10-30-2015
This arrived today. Thanks Russ!
Ed
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