What am I? Help please.

montechoro

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1 Jan 2011 - 12:38 PM

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Please could anyone help identify what this object is?

I have no idea what this is - but I thought it would make an interesting object to photograph.

It's a complete mystery to me.

Any ideas anyone please what it may be?

Food, kitchen, electrical or pet related?

The jaws close but not completely and the teeth can be easily changed. The teeth are not parallel they are elliptical when they close.

They look like pliers but are not sharp and the top has a cupped backing - to catch something perhaps?

They look like a large pair of pliers but they don't look as if they have ever been used.

Suggestions from friends including the funny ones:-

Crimping tool for wires or something electrical;

A spring binding tool for the office;

Eyelash curlers for a dinosaur; (some of those babes needed all the help they could get)

Serrated toe nail clipper - the cupped back would catch the clippings (Yuk!)

A walnut cracker;

Pasta maker;

An olive stoner;

A ravioli edge crimper;

Filo pastry or pie crust crimper;

Candle trimmer / snuffer

- but no-one seems to know for sure what it is.

The jaws are strong with a powerful spring built into the handles - yet the teeth don't appear to be suitable for cutting or strong enough for very serious powerful work.

The back is a full semi circle, very strong and very well made - but I don't know why!!

It's driving me mad to find out

montechoro

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1 Jan 2011 - 4:16 PM

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions and links. No-one has suggested lead crimping before or something to do with film splicing. Good food for thought.

Many thanks MikeA for the super image links - I've studied each image and this found object of mine is nothing like any of those.

I'm pretty certain as are a lot of you, that it is some form of crimping tool - but for what?

It's getting to the stage where I'm past curious and simply must know now

LOL at castrating irons though - would give a nice serrated finish if used that way Ouch!

looboss

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1 Jan 2011 - 10:07 PM

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do you mean a fan page on facebook? easy

montechoro

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2 Jan 2011 - 11:12 AM

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Thanks everyone for looking. I too NEED to know - I'm so desperate now I might even have to offer a bar of my Christmas special present Marmite Chocolate to anyone who can help put me out of my misery

This pic shows the curved back not immediately obvious from the first shot

f8

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3 Jan 2011 - 11:34 PM

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It looks like its for loading a spring into some object.