Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Linesman telegraph wire crimpers


We're used to modern consumer-oriented crimpers, the industrial versions make better connections but are much more expensive. A hundred-plus years ago this is what a telegraph linesman would have been using.
 
 


Klein catalog


Klein catalog 1954
Thanks, Dave!

2 comments:

Dave said...

Here's a picture of a happy workman putting his to use:

https://ia601603.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/3/items/m-klein-catalog-26/M%20Klein%20Catalog%2026_jp2.zip&file=M%20Klein%20Catalog%2026_jp2/M%20Klein%20Catalog%2026_0018.jp2&id=m-klein-catalog-26&scale=2&rotate=0

They were more of a clamp used to hold wire while you twisted a splice together, and they also apparently served as "hammer, wrench or crow bar:"

https://ia804601.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/4/items/KleinPocketToolGuide1954/Klein%20Pocket%20Tool%20Guide%201954_jp2.zip&file=Klein%20Pocket%20Tool%20Guide%201954_jp2/Klein%20Pocket%20Tool%20Guide%201954_0024.jp2&id=KleinPocketToolGuide1954&scale=4&rotate=0

Thanks for this; another tool I would not have recognized before today.

Mister G said...

Thanks for the research, it seemed such a simple primitive tool. I see the Klein catalog dates to 1954! I'll add those images to the post.