Rusty Plier Restoration | Hand Tool Repair & Restore

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In this video I will be restoring a very old odd looking hand tool that at first, I couldn't figure out what it was. The title of the video might seem a little too dramatic, but this tool really is one of the most mistaken tools that I know of. With the help of Paul Schaffner, I was able to get more information on what exactly it was. Below you can find more information that was put together by Mr. Schaffner himself.
Pinching irons, also known as hair tongs, hair-straightening tongs, etc., had a very similar design for at least two hundred years. When heated on a stove, they may be used either to straighten hair (grab dampened hair and pull it gently straight, sliding it between the circular ends, which serve as heat sinks), or to ‘set’ curls or ringlets, usually after the damp hair has been wrapped in paper (“papillottes”). Probably the commonest form in which they turn up these days is that of the ‘Dixie’ brand irons, which look like this and are often mistaken for a host of other things, probably because of their industrial appearance.
Dixie” tongs were sold in several sizes by Bellknap Hardware for years as “Hair Straightening Tongs” (or at least, they appear in both the 1932 and 1940 wholesale catalogues, as below; I have not checked earlier ones, and by the 1950 catalogue they had been displaced by electric hair-straightening combs.)
Other Uses
Pie-making. "Mutton patties ... Line a dozen or more tartlet moulds with the trimmings of puff paste; fill them with the meat; cut out the cover, from the centre of which cut a piece the size of a wafer: pinch the borders all round with a pinching-iron." -- John Simpson, Simpson's Cookery, Improved and Modernised (London, 1834).
Repairing sea shells. “A pair of pincers resembling small smiths' tongs, or the pinching irons used by hair dressers, must be heated, the mouth of which must be of sufficient length to embrace the whole joint; these are to be squeezed together, until the shell will bend.” -- Colin MacKenzie
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[@CoolRestorations]

☝ Please see the description for more detailed information about this tool and its purpose. 🧐🧐🧐

[@icuguys]

Very nice little buddy

[@mikhaxl]

That’s a fancy vinegar bottle! 😍

[@CoolRestorations]

Dollar tree baby :)

[@julienghanadan8311]

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[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you very much!

[@AlvaroLucard]

One more video. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you :)))

[@alextribunskiy3163]

Sheeesh amazing restoration!

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you little buddy ;-)

[@restorationofdirty]

super restoration project

[@CoolRestorations]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@MaksimLitvinenko]

When I see you painting in gray, I was like, "Man, I would paint it in red", and then... 🤣

[@CoolRestorations]

Hahaha :) I should have probably made a note that it's primer:)

[@natalyagvozdikova2170]

Мастер 😍 you should post videos more often!

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you, will try:)

[@MaksimLitvinenko]

💯%

[@RestoredChannel]

Nice work mate!

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you!!!!

[@RestoredChannel]

@@CoolRestorations Good to se you back👊

[@mikhaxl]

So satisfying! 😍 Not hitting the like button is a felony! 😡

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you so much:)

[@MyClutteredGarage]

I have no idea what that is, but nicely done!

[@CoolRestorations]

Its has more details in the description :) Thank you!

[@RestorationVS]

Very well done 👍🏻❤

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you brother 👍👍👍

[@user-wj1sw7ou2z]

عمل رائع جداً أحسنت

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you!

[@elliottsmith3632]

They also can be made into bullet molds for making shot for black powder rifles. I believe they are still available today.

[@CoolRestorations]

Yeah I saw that, pretty cool 👍

[@RestorationAustralia]

Nice job, looks like a dentist instrument.😊😊😊

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you, its actually for hair :) More info in the descriptions

[@Forestcamp313]

Çok güzel bir video olmuş dostum abone de oluyorum, başarılarının devamını dilerim. İnşallah bende senin gibi güzel videolar çekebilirim 👋👋👋

[@CoolRestorations]

Thank you very much!👍👍👍

[@olgas.1382]

Why do you add potassium permanganate to vinegar?

[@CoolRestorations]

Just for experimenting and color effects. Didn’t really do anything 🤷‍♂️