Bernard Pliers Repair Revisited tips 552 tubalcain mrpete

how many once again is tubal-cain your YouTube shop teacher and this is tips number five five - and it's entitled the Bernard pliers revisited now there was a recent video where I talked about Bernard parallel jaw pliers sometimes also called Sargent pliers it was a fairly popular video and I was surprised of two things number one was how many people had never heard of this pliers and number two how many people had won or remembered or kept one in their tackle box or their dad had one of their grandpa had one so it was a mixed bag there of people that were sentimental and people who wanted to learn more about them so I'm going to wax I hope eloquently in this video about the little more about the history I'm going to show you a lot of pictures if you can bear with me this will be a long we're both video but this particular one that I showed you in the last video is in terrible shape I'm going to take it apart see if I can recondition a bit salvage it but at the very least if not less we'll have it apart so you can see the different parts and how it works maybe I should have this in my how it works on video servers I don't know but anyway I hope to have a little fun doing this and I hope you have fun watching it so let's get on with it now if you haven't seen this recent video I suggest you watch it if you're interested in this type of subject matter I'll try to put a link if I can remember to do it and you can find it quickly some of the Bernards pliers are very old and often have the patent date on them but barnard themselves did not own a factory they were made by this company in New Haven Connecticut the William Scholle horn company actually manufactured them and if you watch the previous video you know how many many different patents that Bernhard held and notice here that they're called Bernards possession there with an apostrophe now on the side of the older ones there is a patent date and there might be different patents not all the same one and there is their little trademark that you'll find on some of them it's a I guess a st. Bernard but it doesn't look much like a st. Bernard they up a little keg under its neck there and then you'd recognize a little bit better but that's kind of neat you'll see that on some of the pliers but not all for some reason even as a small child I was enamored with trademarks oh that little diamond there on the handles also appears to be one of their trademarks but looking on the more modern one nickel plated now not Chrome quite a different color there it says Bernard but it says sergeant there so this one has both trademarks and let's see what does it say there this one is manufactured by sergeant and New Haven I think they bought out that other company in about 1948 now I know I'm giving you a probably a little more history than you want to know here but here is one that's marked sergeant on the handle I know what's a repeat for some of you but the name Bernard is no longer used which saddens a fellow now you can still buy pliers like this there's a firm in Britain called mon ma UN that manufactures them all so I just looked in the mcmaster-carr catalog and you can buy a pair of these I'm not sure who makes them but I noticed that on some of them these were really beautiful handles I know it's a stamping but it's fully enclosed there but I think on some of the more modern ones you're going to see handles stamped like this that are opened now that doesn't necessarily make a tool cheap although this is probably a fairly cheap on here but remember that always scripts are made but with stampings as were many guns all the Sten guns and the the grease gun and all that were stamping so much cheaper to make than a tommy gun who cares bear with me now many of the Barnard patents revolved around the manufacturing and the stamping so in this one and ever you can look this up there's the patent number in the Bernard name this was from 1913 remember they were making Model T's then and there shows how the handles were to be formed there is again the stretch out of it I feel like cutting one out of paper or you know what else I feel like doing I feel like sacrificing one of these and just heating it up taking it apart and flattening it out like that I think that would be neat now that one just shows that I don't know if that's the finished one or the process and that's just page one now let me show you the other page again this is the same patent number page two and it does show it being rounded off and fully closed they're probably being the die that closed it now if it sentence you to think of this as a stamped out plier but they're very very rigid and strong you know a tube sometimes it's just as strong as a forging also they did a nice job here and this is hollow just to reduce the weight also they did a nice job on some of these of closing and you can hardly see the seam again that's a very old one that's pretty well worn out but when I started to say there I got a little sidetracked lost my train of thought but anyway if you thought this is cheap and tubular and stamped there are fully machined forged and hardened parts the jaws for instance are readily hard and in a repeat here I'm telling you that these jaws are pretty worn out but they had a nice serrated finish for grip sometimes they call them the Bulldog grip and I'll show you some ads later on and adults like that V way that they had in there very handy to hold wire or screw or something these would hold it pretty nice and firm if you were gonna grind now this one looks like it's lost a little of its parallels of impaired apparently millions were used in the military every tool kit especially the machine gun kits had one of these when I was a boy and even ten years after the Second World War into the early 50s in the back of every magazine like popular science there were ads for war surplus now here's a typical one from starks they were in Chicago there also was one in Los Angeles called pallies that I used to buy things from when I was a kid I just thought that war surplus stuff was so neat but anyway shown here is a Bernard plier for a buck twenty-nine I was very encouraged by that last video because I got so many kind responses and now I realize maybe I'm not as crazy as I thought it was that there are other people just just kooky that likes something as mundane as a tool whether it be a Bernard or screwdriver and that I'm not alone in this world in my love for something so so silly as a tool but but I do like them I have always liked tools I remember being a boy ten-year-old boy or something and just liking tools sometimes just for the sake of the tool rather than using it it's just such a wonderful thing and now here we are with an extension of our hands and added mechanical advantage all right enough gabbing now let me attempt to take this one apart as you can see it's been pretty well butchered and I did loosen up these screws offhand somebody had pounded on this and pretty well closed the slots on the screws and you can see that they were made in different ways for instance this one sergeant is a riveted except for in the middle here apparently that screw comes out on but it looks like it's riveted from that side this real old one is screws but down here we have rivets well we got rivets down here too I don't intend to take those apart perhaps you remember from the last video when I attempted to cut wire with this one that it won't even cut a piece of baling wire so to speak the jaws are no longer in alignment and trying to cut something thicker like this watch what happens it just bends it over well I had pretty much declared this to be junk and was going to throw it away and then I thought on second thought I better not and people get angry when they say that send it to me I'll fix it I can use it and again many of these were used in tackle boxes and got rusty matter of fact I had one in my tackle box but it has extended jaws that was more modern one but it was pretty good for getting fish hooks out of a fish's mouth also if I may reiterate these were made in thousands of different styles probably under license but with different jaws for different purposes some even have not no more modern ones have some nylon or plastic jaws or brass jaws or extended jaws some were made with punches and a popular one would cut off leather belting and punch the hole and crimp it and all that for the old singer treadle type sewing machine so just all kinds of different trades used parallel jaw pliers all right let's take this apart now someone's put a rivet in there or I guess you could say they took the screw and pinned it over so we'll see if that comes out no that'll have to be drilled out or worked on let's see what this one does and that's a special screw that is threaded on the end there were Oh pretty dull cutter not only dull but it's nicked and there's the other draw let's see the boy is that ever heard so that's a quality piece expensive to make you know I forgot to mention to you where I actually got this pair of pliers and can you take a guess well you're right I got it at Bubba's Hawks are quite a while at all let's see if we get that out now I've pretty well grown the head off of it she was a man hard to fix a bird okay and out it comes and you can see that Bubba did put just a standard still bolt in there as compared to what it is supposed to have now what I'm still not sure of is what is threaded and what needs nuts and what what does not because if you look at this other rather old one it has two screws here with some very thin nuts because in fact the sheet model there is too thin to be threaded actually fairly good condition you can still see the ripping pattern on it some of them are all chewed up on the end by grinders if they were holding something to grind now looking at the rest of this that's not going to come apart unless I want to sacrifice this as a cutaway because again we got rivets there and I'm still not quite sure here why this is riveted just from one side but it looks to me like probably that allowed them to go ahead and head that rivet by bucking it up with their bucking tool from this side and riveting that in that operation where they had it together then it would go to another station and later on during assembly during final assembly they could use this bolt right in here and again that's a shoulder bolt that's a shoulder bolt and that shoulder bolt went in to this jaw remember now that not all of these pliers had a cutter some of them did not have that at all which I don't know why you wouldn't because that's one of the handiest features because of the compound leverage you've had the ability to cut something fairly thick even with a weak hand I don't know how far I should carry this as far as cleaning it because you see that Bubba has the handle packed with grease hardens briefs at that I'm not sure I want to go to therefore to cleaning that or maybe it's dirt children often borrowed their dad's plier young boys I mean they'd they'd end up out of the backyard I remember sometimes my dad would find well one of his rusty tools in our backyard and he was not happy alright I ran into a problem already we can see here that Bubba just put a standard quarter twenty thread in there and beat the heck out of the end of it probably lost that screw or lost them nut who knows so I'm looking at this and thought well all right what what size is that and then checking it here if it doesn't go into the quarter where it goes doesn't even go into the 1764 so it goes under the 9/32 well first of all let me say that everyone in the civilized world knows that often tool manufacturers especially years ago adopted their own threads or whatever would fit maybe they needed an odd size to fit in this size plier so maybe they even manufacture their own screws in their own taps and dies member we don't really know that I don't think they did it to be ornery but I used to deal and mess around a lot with stanley planes that all of their threads and fasteners were specialized alright let's take the showers here and see what a diameter this is well it to 70 what the heck is 270 I went through several books here including the machinery handbook there is nothing in there that as close to that that's just a little bit over quarter-inch so I got to think in here I'm a little bit discouraged I don't mind telling you well then I thought well maybe it's metric well they didn't do metric things in Connecticut in 1898 now did they but I want to work on my metric cracking myself up all of a sudden went over my metric set that is seven millimeters well why did I grab seven millimeter so let's let's back up to this first of all again bubbly used quarter inch or didn't I do that already that's quarter-inch bolt this Bernard is it's 271 but if I click on metric it's six point eight eight millimeter well that's not very far from seven matter of fact for all intents and purposes that is seven well that's why I went over and grabbed a seven millimeter tap and I thought wonderful that'll fit in there and you know what it does it does so can I go down to Ace Hardware and get a seven millimeter bolt and modify it and get some nuts and I know the nuts are gonna be way out of proportion but let me go to the hardware store and see what I can come up with and then I'll get back to you otherwise well even for me to make my own screw what size am I gonna thread it I probably would have to make it you know about seven millimeter and then reduce it near the end after the the bolt passed through so it had to be very precise and then use some other nut that I adopt but I probably would want to make tools so the two sides matched and looked good or am I wasting my whole day here or several days on a piece of junk but in the mean time I will clean these up but what I had originally thought here is that I would be able to very easily show you what the action of the pliers has but on this rivet here or fixed pin perhaps I should say notice that it allows that draw to slide in and out and if I may just temporarily put this bolt in there to hold it in place like that you can see what's happening I don't think I really explained what it's doing but that's the general principles there of keeping the two jaws parallel all right I'll see you tomorrow after I do some investigative shopping I do not know if 7 millimeter would be considered a fairly average size but that would be available at the hardware store in there little kiss but we know that there is a 7 millimeter thread and the pitch on that if I can read it you know even with my optivisor sometimes I have to use this that's a 7 millimeter and the pitch is 1 millimeter and that simply means it's one millimeter from one thread to the next now I don't remember if that's the course or the fine but I would use whatever is available if they and I do mean available so in the meantime I'll clean these parts real well degrease them maybe wire brush them a bit take some still pictures and I think this is interesting and so do you guys that have mechanical minds all right it's the next day and I slept on this problem and here's what I came up with first of all I have one drawer with metric screws and they're just odd balls that I picked up one place or another but of course I couldn't find one that would fit in this plier because I have determined now that it is about seven millimeter all right there's no seven millimeter in here let's go on down to a hardware store and I'll show you a little footage from that there'll be no sound you as you can see from that footage all the selections that they had their days and they had a nice selection but I have determined the 7-millimeter is a hermaphrodite size even within the metric community but I did find the one drawer there as you saw but the bolts were way too large and out of proportion that as the heads were too large and there just wasn't really anything that I could use but for 30 cents I bought a seven millimeter not one nut and there it is and you can see how grossly out of proportion this is the overall size is too large and it's way too thick it just looks ridiculous so then that's like something my bubble would do they need to be proportional to the tool size so what I did is I took some 1032 nuts look at the difference now put them in the lathe and tap them seven millimeter so I I tapped five of them because I'll be losing one always making extra I do have a set of metric taps and eyes it's the super self you know so there's the taps the lower part is the dies and there is the seven millimeter and there that's what I used for the nuts and I'll show you what I did next there's the metric tap and I and I took a piece of five sixteenths rod turned it down to seven millimeter and threaded the end and on other words I'm making my own bolts so there'll be a just a short shafts seven millimeter it'll be threaded on each end and I'll put a lock tight on those so that's how I'm going about this so that's what it's going to look like and this end of course will be threaded and cut off I need to make two of those I have 1/2 maid already so that's gonna work just fine it's just that it's very tedious and there's a lot of a lot of things to do to make little stubs they're actually studs is what they are story time now here's what happened in 1948 when sergeant took over from Bernard or from that other company whichever way it was they came in on a Monday morning and told all employees in the office and the factory they'll be absolutely not no changes as business as usual well of course they had a board meeting and by Friday of that week they had issued 300 pink slips laid off a huge number of people a lot of engineers were gone and to replace that those uh personnel they brought in bean counters 30 bean counters headed by Robert McNamara who was on leave from Ford Motor Company at that time and they looked over to product and they said you guys are insane using nuts and bolts there because they can fall apart it cost more to do we're going to rivet it and there were thousands of out-of-work aircraft workers that were expert riveters at the time and matter of fact the number one personally hired was Rosie and they were able to save 7 cents per unit by doing that end of story all right I'm back from the rant and I'm gonna go ahead and finish this off camera because you've seen me turn and thread and all that countless times also I believe that I'm going to put this into some evapo rust evapo rust however you say it there's a little bit of rust I did clean it up real well but not good enough yet now another thing here I had the laughs I told you this was packed by grease with grease by bubble so I thought well no problem I put a drill bit in there well I instantly ruined the drill bit and came to the realization that someone had put concrete I'm gonna call it mortar that's mortar and those so there's about an inch worth of hardened mortar in there that is impenetrable and isn't hurting anything but it but it does bother me so anyway we'll we'll soak this a little bit wire brush it I won't show any of that but when I come back I should have that done and the screw is made well I'm back is the next day I haven't used the ID roster yet but I do have one of the studs in place the other one is right here all I have to do is thread it and cut it to length but that's what they're going to look like of course now a couple things here first of all I wanted to explain this again I guess I already did this is quarter-inch bolt this is a 5/16 bolt now even though there's only 1/16 of an inch difference sometimes we need a size that's in between as I am doing right now with the 7 millimeter but I took a piece of 5/16 rod so the purple piece here is 5/16 in diameter the small end is then turned down to quarter inch and then this section here has been turned down to 7 millimeter so that's one place here in the imperial system where I don't believe they have enough thread so there are in other words there's nothing between this and this and I had to use a metric size or in the case of sergeant they made up their own sizes but I want to show you a couple other things here before I get on with it and number one is that this tool has been abused a lot of tools have been that's not unusual but you can see it's been pounded there we got a burr and this side we got some really big birds I am going to take those off for the file I do not really like doing that but I think I'm gonna go ahead and do that I already did remove burrs from the jaws although they're hardened so there weren't a lot of bursts now the other thing is here since I have it half assembled I did attempt to cut wire and it is not cutting wire why well because at some point the tool has been sprung a little bit and if I would tighten up this stud enough to close off that little gap there and possibly align the two jaws here cutting jaws cutting blades it would work but then it becomes too stiff to move the other thing is that someone has ground on this that in other words they've changed the geometry that the factory provided you can see different facets on there so it's hopeless because if I grind or file anymore off of it it's not going to close because this is already in the close position so there's nothing that I can do with the cutter all right I'll be gone for a little while while I finish this up that's what it looks like for one side now on this side I temporarily put that oversized out of proportion nut from Ace Hardware on there just so you can see what it looks like and that's what I am NOT going to use because I think proportion is it's kind of an important thing when you're restoring it although this isn't the full restoration but there's my homemade nut and I have to remove just a little bit tighten it up and remove just a little bit off the end of the thread then I will lock tight well eventually I think I'll lock tight all for not Sun because when they're lost and that's what probably happened to Bubba is that one of them was lost and in he would not have had the capability possibly of doing anything about it other than to ram a quarter inch stove bolt in there I have a rhetorical question for you and this is a Colombian vise which I love now I also own several other races including to Wilton bullet vices but why is it that the bullet vices are so coveted and so driven up in price when they really are only a mediocre vise and they're gonna cost you about 400 bucks for a brand new one but with the round Ram at the high school the kids destroyed several of them by bending that ram and so I did not think very much of Wilton vices at the time and would when they failed I would buy Colombians up which I don't think are available anymore but keep your eye open form Parker also as a wonderful vise if you see that big orange vise out in my garage that monster that I can't even lift a bomb sighs that's Parker Charles Parker well I'm gonna file this got off topic again doesn't it I'm gonna remove some of these burgers here that are bothering me now I've used evapo rust before a vaporous how do you pronounce the I paid 15 bucks for that at the time and sunny this has been used but let me point out that I have about 10 or 12 videos on rust removal some of them older I'll put a link here at the top take a look at that and click on some of those the one this entitle the Olympics of rust removal covers all of the different possibilities including electrolysis so check those out if you're in the mood so I needed a container here I don't like to use an enormous pan and it needs to be plastic not metal so that that's gonna fit in there perfectly and then a contribution of mrs Peterson she loved she's very organized so she buys these Rubbermaid drawer dividers you know so don't tell her about that but that's what I'm going to use I know that gags you got older all right here we go and I think I'll let it set for about 3 or 4 hours maybe I didn't use this yeah it sure looks very clean nose not now you can get this at a or freight and many other places but I think it's up to about $25 a gallon though oh I know where I got it I got it off of ebay yeah that's what I came from so let's let that set there's not a whole lot of rust on this piece or these pieces so I'll see you after lunch okay about eight hours have passed and I see a Walmart tag on this so I bought that at Walley world we're gonna load it okay I don't see a whole lot of difference there or material floating around or anything like that but I am gonna go ahead and rinse it and douse it with some oil and then proceed tomorrow to put it back together okay it's a day later and here are all the parts ready to go they've been D rusted do they do not look great because that took all of the black finish off but I've washed them off in hot water and then oil them thoroughly so they're little messy but I'm going to go ahead and put them together and then this this is the final assembly and I'm going to use a little bit of this on the nuts safety lock and we'll see how that works you when I made up these nuts several days ago I looked everywhere to try to find some unplayed nuts older stock nuts which I could not find I really do not like the looks of the plating on this unpleasant surface here now some of you are gonna say why don't you put some gun blue on it or paint it or something like that but for now it's just gonna stay as is it's never going to look brand new and remember I still have dysfunctional jaws here I can get the light right the alignment is gone because of incorrect sharpening and possibly a little springing of the entire unit but that's pretty much gonna have to be yet so that completes the at least partial restoration or I don't know it wasn't a restoration I get I guess but she's ready to go and serve maybe another 50 years of life now at the end of the video I have about a dozen or more still pictures of advertising from popular science Popular Mechanics way back in the 30s and 40s owing how they went about marketing this pretty clever ad so take a look at those two thank you so much for watching this five minute video that took 35 minutes it's a tuple gainsaying so long for now you

Channel: mrpete222

Views: 15,301

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Keywords: pliers, sargent pliers, tools, hand tools, bridgeport mill, sidecutter, side cutter

Id: tz1peWpU3cI

Length: 39min 19sec (2359 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2019