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I still have no idea what this would be used for.

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Narrated - Patent Remake: 1911 Swivel-Jaw Alligator Wrench

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Adam Adamowicz

Interesting design! It could maybe be used for those Ben-Hur style lug nut caps, or maybe for a punk rock jacket (lol). Either way, I hope we get to see more custom spikey fasteners in the future now that you have a tool to easily tighten them!

Brian Myers

Haha. That's how Billy Idol got those spikes on his gloves!

Brian Myers

I paused the video and read the text: The ojbect of my invention is to improve the construction of an alligator wrench whereby the life of the wrench is materially increased. A further object of my invention is to construct an alligator wrench so that the same may be used on either straight or tapered work. Another object of my invention is to construct an alligator wrench so that the same will adjust itself automatically to different tapers. A final obect of my invention is to amplify the construction and reduce the cost of alligator wrenches ?? ??? the above features.

Brian Myers

"reduce the cost"? LOL. Really? Interesting.

Bryan Sportel

I would love to have one of these

Tyler sommer

I wonder if it is meant fro reducers on screw pipe

Marc McKenzie

This would be great in a candid camera show set in a hardware store - very few people would guess what it is, and how to use it! Except, of course, all the conical fastener nuts 🔩!

Raul Ramos

I'd imagined the serrated bit would be individual plates stacked up. It would surely allow for relative rotation but that might not be a bad thing

Clifton Ballad

Well.... apart from the belt sander, large vice, and the mill and all its accessories, im almost there! I think I have the exact same set of hardness files, I have a Very similar looking lathe (still in pieces....) and I have torches a plenty. I feel ya on the eyeball heat treating, I just did a very similar thing my self recently. With 1095. The first one I made I broke by squeezing it with my fingers after quenching and that told me I actually got it to harden.... I was mystified that it didnt shatter like a grenade on quenching and then I shattered it by accident looking for a file to test if I hardened it or not... The second one actually made it to the part, and was so springy that it actually didnt work so I had to make 3, 4 and 5 because thats how life goes...

Ryan Simpson

removing stubborn tips from a confectioner bag?

ChuckD

Gets me thinking it'd be a good honeypot for man-splainers (and a candid camera).

handtoolrescue

I thought so too at first, but after reading the patent, that's not the case apparently.

Michael Ford

Shapoopy (16:36)… is that another Canadian word like chuch?

AC-1 Sentinel (I'm cramped inside)

just a bit curious but could you not have single point threaded the outside of that rod? or is there something i missed in your escapades?

Bradley Goodwin

Shipoopi (The girl that's hard to get) Sung by actor/ comedian Buddy Hacket. https://youtu.be/9Jj622vbrrU Well, a woman who'll kiss on the very first date Is usually a hussy And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out Is anything but fussy But a woman who'll wait till the third time around Head in the clouds, feet on the ground She's the girl you're glad you found She's your shipoopi From one of my favorite Broadway/Movie musicals, Music Man 1962. The movie also starting Robert Preston (reprising the main character Harold Hill from the original Broadway cast), Shirley Jones and then child actor Ron Howard.

Bradley Goodwin

As if the cost of alligator wrenches were excessive. I also have read that the early 1900s is when nuts and bolts started to become more standardized. I found this photo of one of the first fastener machines https://pin.it/7jgP0dV Imagine trying to disassemble and restore such a piece of machinery.

Bradley Goodwin

I remember my mom taking us to the drive-in movies to see Music Man; these are very fond memories 😊