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    Collectable Vice Grips??

    Gold plated in a wooden presentation box, no less. Who gnu?




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    Those are made to install those $640 toilet seats the Navy bought awhile back. Just tighten until your nuts are flush.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    Those are made to install those $640 toilet seats the Navy bought awhile back. Just tighten until your nuts are flush.
    That's sig line material right there son.

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    The older ones are actually surprisingly expensive these days (Made by Petersen or Dewitt).

    The Irwin-made Chinese ones are hideous...
    Jim
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    Thanks Carlo, now I want a set.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NA4BH View Post
    Thanks Carlo, now I want a set.
    They said you had a set.
    A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory

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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    They said you had a set.
    It has freckles.

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    And they was right
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    The best ones are opened with a smile"

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    I bet the gold flashing is is scarcely a few molecules thick just like some bathroom fittings..

    Bah! I've bent my Chinese-made Irwin visegrips so dug out my original British Mole Grips, I wonder whose patent it was and why Mole grips went out of production?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HUGH View Post
    I bet the gold flashing is is scarcely a few molecules thick just like some bathroom fittings..

    Bah! I've bent my Chinese-made Irwin visegrips so dug out my original British Mole Grips, I wonder whose patent it was and why Mole grips went out of production?

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    As long as the Mole didn't end up on the King Dick.
    Jim
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