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An old multi tool help!!!!!
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:16 pm
by Mossdancer
Hey folks;
Does anyone recognize this item. No marks what so ever, Any help would be appreciated. Date,name,maker etc.
Thank you,
wb
Explosives tool, I think...
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:44 am
by mtds
It won't be long before someone with all the details replies, but in the meantime, I'm pretty sure that it is a tool for men working with explosives. I saw something similar, but without the knife blade, when I was in the Marines.
The blasting cap is crimped onto the detonating cord or fuse with the u-shaped jaws. The pointed leg on the tool pierces the paper wrap on the explosive and makes a deep well/hole for the cap.
Is the cutout on the pointed leg used to measure something? Maybe the proper depth of the well/hole for some standard sized cap?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:20 am
by jonet143
it could be an explosives knife. it has a lot of the same features as brl 3rd's description.
multi tool
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:24 am
by Mossdancer
Hey;
Thanks to both of you,
Any idea as to what year.
wb
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:37 pm
by 9ball
W.B.
I have seen one of these also, when I read Mtds's reply that is when I remembered it.
They are explosives pliers more modern, guessing I would say the 60's or maybe later.
Search eBay for Pliers in the 'Mining' catagory, one will pop up there sooner or later. I have seen them there also.
There is a company that still makes them or did last I heard/saw. My source on that stuff is in Iraq and make take awhile before I talk/see him again.
Nice find
9ball
