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those short straight and off set double box ends are handy tools, I try to pick those up when swap meet buying.
 
Those little off sets reminded me of a deal I got about twenty years ago from an old boy at work. He cleaned cars and wasn't very handy so I don't know what he was doing with Snap On tools. He asked If I could come over after work and haul a steel bench to the junk yard on my way home. Bench wasn't pretty but had a Columbian vise on it so I hauled it home. Next day 3 of those little wrenches came to work with him, wanted 10 bucks so I paid him, then the ratchet for 10 bucks, wanted 12 or 13 for the sockets, think I gave him 20. and the Thomass Bettes terminal crimper I paid him 5 for. Said he was cleaning the garage, didn't need the stuff.
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The guy I used to work for had a set of those Bettes "Sta-Kon" crimpers from the late 1950's when he worked for Diebold Safe and Lock installing security systems at banks. Once he showed me the reason for the different colored handles, it sure made life easier. We used his set in our automotive accessories shop for at least ten more years, must have left them in a customer's vehicle and they never returned.
 
They're used to crimp on wire ends, which you probably knew already. The wire ends should be crimped with the indention on the back side, so that it doesn't spread it open on the folded side. The colored handles let you pick it up the right way without looking at the jaws to see which way is correct.

Irv :wink:
 
gab, you jarred a memory or two by posting those short snap-on offset double box ends. Darn handy in some places. The memory is of my best man in my wedding and good buddy. He didn?t finish high school just because he thought it was a waste of time. Not that he wasn?t smart enough. He took a GED then went to a nearby tech college and went through the Ag mechanics course there. He always kind of did things in a big way, partly because he was a big ole-boy. Anyway he came back from that college with a pretty good sized Snap-on stack chest full of tools, which included a set of those wreches and many other types a normal person would not think were all that necessary. Helped him with quite a few projects and helped me with a few of mine usually at the large shop on their 200 head dairy. Unfortunately, the good Lord saw fit to end his life in his mid-20s while he was messing with oxygen & acetylene trying to blast a tree stump. Sorry for stealing the thread.
 
Forty years ago there was a body shop in the back of the shop I worked in. When work was slow those guys were always into some kind of mischief. One day there was a terrible explosion out back plus a crash or two on the roof. Those screw balls ran a batch of oxy./acet. in the dumpster and lit it, blew both lids on the roof and bellied the rest of it out like a pumpkin. They caught some serious hell over that and the boss made them straighten it, weld it back together and paint it. They even had their own blasting fuse, they started with filling balloons and blowing them up.
 

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