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(10-29-2015, 12:39 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: Feeling all team USA today  Big Grin


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 starboard  Popcorn anyway any days a good day when you get free tools  Big Grin


Rob

http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/det...px?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.   Chin

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...)  Blush

Edit to add: FREE tools? Yeah, You Suck

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That a very interesting link ,a site  I will have to good dig around in .  Big Grin  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 Rotfl .   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 . 



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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.
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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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(10-29-2015, 12:39 PM)RobWilson. Wrote: I was also given these today   Smiley-dancenana Smiley-dancenana

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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  Popcorn anyway any days a good day when you get free tools  Big Grin


Rob

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!
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http://www.wisstool.com/index.cfm

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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.

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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!
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This arrived today. Thanks Russ!

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