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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

Комментарии • 107

  • @rickcentore2801
    @rickcentore2801 Месяц назад +1

    You're very welcome John. Those pliers were a small price to pay for all the enjoyment and knowledge I have gained from your channel. Hope to see you at Zagray in the new year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Hi Rick! Looking forward to seeing you this Spring at Zagray along with Ken and the crew! Again thanks so much! 😃👍

  • @ballinator
    @ballinator Месяц назад +21

    Dude! Thanks for the shout-out. Appreciated!

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +4

      Keep up the great work! 😃👍

  • @rdmeenach
    @rdmeenach Месяц назад +1

    One of my favorite things was building go carts and going to St Vincent de Paul with my dad and going through the barrels of wheels to find matching ones. I remember getting a perfect cream colored Hudson steering wheel for 50 cents.

  • @pitaeata8493
    @pitaeata8493 Месяц назад +3

    I've watched all your episodes; i don't remember ever seeing Bernard plyers. Nice pair of plyers! Thank you.

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Most of my episodes are easily forgettable. 😂👍

  • @mumfordalien1794
    @mumfordalien1794 Месяц назад +6

    My dad was a millwright when I was a kid and he built us a go cart out of metal with a lawnmower engine to power it.
    I rolled that thing a bunch of times, no roll cage.
    I’m still here, good times

  • @robertlevine2152
    @robertlevine2152 Месяц назад +3

    ScoutCrafter,
    My father was able to visit a government war surplus sale. He was a high school science teacher and Uncle Sam was kind enough to sell surplus equipment to schools once or twice a year.
    He came home with a toolbox that weighed close to 30 pounds empty. When you put a normal amount of tools in it you could hardly pick it up off the ground. A set of latches and a couple of coats of paint and it lasted for years.
    He also came home with a pair of Bernard pliers. They came complete with a coating of cosmoline and the heavy yellow wax paper, all for fifty cents. Using my favorite degreaser, gasoline, and some 3-in-1 Oil, the pliers were flat black and they worked perfectly. As a kid, I loved those pliers. When I went off to college those pliers went with me. I still have them. The black oxide coating has not changed. The wire cutters are still in good shape. My guess is they're 60+ years young. That's

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Bob- Finding a NOS military item covered in Cosmoline was always a treat! That stuff was great for protecting metal! 😃👍

    • @troyb1733
      @troyb1733 Месяц назад

      @@ScoutCrafter How do you re-move cosmoline?? I have a WWII rifle and it has it on it, I have never fired it because I had no idea how to "PROPERLY" remove the stuff.

  • @bobhart1155
    @bobhart1155 Месяц назад +5

    No. 1 go-to plier in our antique restorations shop. Love them for the purchase they get in holding small items like flat springs and brass escutcheon plates for polishing. A multitude of uses - everyone should have a pair! Another great video, Scout. BTW, I had shoulder surgery today and the first thing I did when I got home was watch your and Magdad's videos. Keep 'em coming!

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +2

      Bob- Hope your shoulder feels better- people have no idea how important the shoulder is until you have it injured. It can make your whole side almost useless! 🫣😂👍

  • @westhighlandsshop
    @westhighlandsshop Месяц назад

    Great show, enjoyed the plier cleanup and detailed info!

  • @larryborkstrom3580
    @larryborkstrom3580 Месяц назад +3

    I've been enjoying his channel and there pliers look great and I remember doing the same thing with old baby carriage

  • @Resto-Rob
    @Resto-Rob Месяц назад +1

    Wow, the old baby carriages take me back to my childhood. My Mom would see them in the poor mans flea market, and I would have to help load them up in the car for my sister. Thank you 👍

  • @metalwork.
    @metalwork. Месяц назад +4

    Ballinator does a great job .. very interesting and great humor

  • @OldSneelock
    @OldSneelock Месяц назад +1

    We had those baby carriages in my neighborhood. That was back in the 60's and they were still popular because we didn't go to the mall we walked downtown to the grocery store.
    We lived in small town America so lawn mowers were a more likely source for soap box derby type go carts.
    A friend of mines grandfather had a large lawn mower deck with no motor on it he would hook it behind the tractor when he was going to the back fields and we would ride along. Mike, his brother Tim and I would have a ball riding up and down the lanes.
    We have been discussing Bernard pliers for a long time. Great design. I like them for handling glass items. Like you showed here they don't grip just the edge. The flat jaws will grip a large area that makes the pliers excellent for snapping glass to a scribed line.
    Another trick I use when wire brushing is to use one of the large round magnets they use to sell for holding a CB radio antenna on the roof of your car. It grips the part and lets you hold it up to big wheel on a bench grinder or you can clamp it down and use to hold odd shapes for a Dremel to get into the tight spots.
    Loved the show.

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Dave that European company that still makes the Bernard pattern also have them with Teflon jaws. That would be great for glass. 😃👍

  • @PennsylvaniaMike
    @PennsylvaniaMike Месяц назад +1

    I like the idea of taking the knobs and hardware, I never thought of that. I really enjoyed the info on the pliers. My wife's grandmother use to live on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and she use tell us of stories how the buildings had carriage rooms in the lobbies so you didn't have to lug those beasts up to your apartment.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Wow- I never knew that! 😃👍

  • @sebglayburg5163
    @sebglayburg5163 Месяц назад +1

    John on the money, and funny! When you do finally find the part, it's always in the exact middle under the bench/car, or the most unreachable spot. It's really amazingly true!

  • @SteveMcQuillin
    @SteveMcQuillin Месяц назад +4

    I have fond memories of hanging upside down off a bridge over the river in my town with my cousin holding my feet, hacksaw in hand while I took the wheels/axles from an upturned baby carriage (or pram as they were known in the UK) that was buried deep in the mud and weeds and was not for moving. We had that cart for a couple of years at least! I think I was about 12 at the time.

  • @richardross7219
    @richardross7219 Месяц назад +2

    In the 1990s when our son was little, my wife liked to go tag saleing on Saturdays. One time she came home with a Wonder Chair Set up. It had the big stroller and a bunch of assessories. It worked well for the kid. Good Luck, Rick

  • @13thworker45
    @13thworker45 Месяц назад +3

    I don’t think I could have left the carriage. Very clean and nice. I have never had a pair of the pliers. Nice cleanup. I have watched ballinator many times. It’s a good show. Thank you

  • @jeffreykindron7162
    @jeffreykindron7162 Месяц назад +2

    My older brother got in huge trouble after one of our neighbors called our stepmother and ratted him out for excessively. bouncing our younger brother in a stroller that looked alot like the one you showed while walking down our road. Back in the early 70's. I own a pair of the Bernard pliers that I inherited from my grandfather, I dont remember ever using them. I will definitely try them out.

  • @mikeedwards6162
    @mikeedwards6162 Месяц назад +2

    Great video, which took me back to being a kid when we made bogies as we called them in Northern England from much sought after pram wheels, living on an Island there was never any shortage of wood, if we wanted a plank or axel bearer we would just nip to the shore line and pick up wood which was washed up, for the centre hole for the steering nobody had a drill, so a red hot poker heated on the fire was used to burn the hole through.

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      Mike- Building those carts at a young age really started the journey of making things for the rest of our lives. 😃👍

  • @kitmaira
    @kitmaira Месяц назад +4

    I have only found one set of Bernard pliers in my years of tool collecting. I never thought about using them with the wire brush. Thanks for the tip!

  • @tonylenge424
    @tonylenge424 Месяц назад +4

    My mother had a classic baby carriage and I remember my brother in it. Those carriages were like the classic cars of the 50’s and 60’s. Ballinator is a great channel.

  • @thenkgarage
    @thenkgarage Месяц назад +1

    Ballinator has a wonderful channel! So informative! He definitely deserved that shout out. That is the nicest pair of bernard pliers I have ever seen! Whenever I find them the nickel plating is far gone

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Yes! Nickle plating is such a poor coating but the good news is they all really clean up nice on only the wire brush! 😃👍

  • @BudBush
    @BudBush Месяц назад +4

    My brothers and I made many coaster wagons out of two by fours and a fruit crate and baby buggy wheels. The nice thing was if you found a baby buggy you had the axles as well. We pushed each other up and down the country road in front of our house and survived many crashes. Like you said, we learned a lot about making our own playthings and mechanics. What a great time that was😂!!!

  • @John..18
    @John..18 Месяц назад +2

    Our languages never fail to amuse me,,
    For instance, we call a baby carriage, a "pram", the "go-cart" we called either a "bogey" or a "gider", and "plaid" is called tartan,, !!
    But, to firmly hold a small object, is called getting some "purchase",, !
    and lack of it, as you say, will cause objects to dissappear for ever,, !!! 😂..
    All the very best from across the pond,, 😂🇬🇧

  • @johnkelley9877
    @johnkelley9877 Месяц назад +3

    I was impressed with how the fine wire wheel and fiber wheel cleaned up the pliers. Thanks for sharing this.

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      John- Two tools that always seem to clean up nicely is the vise grips and Bernard tools. 😃👍

  • @GWP323
    @GWP323 Месяц назад +1

    Ballinator has some good content. I've been watching his stuff for a while now.
    I too would get excited to find good wheels to make go-carts. How the heck we survived some of the contraptions we created is beyond me.
    George

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      George- I remember our group trying so hard to create a steering system using rope and pulleys… 😂👍

  • @lotsatrains
    @lotsatrains Месяц назад +2

    Love those pliers and always reminds me of my father’s tackle box because he had them in there all rusty of course though 😂

  • @drivesalot0063
    @drivesalot0063 Месяц назад +2

    I remember my mom pushing my younger brother around in one of those "bouncy" baby carriages back in the late 60's. Being mischievous, my sister and I would stand at each end and teeter-totter him back and forth to watch him bounce around. Yeah, we got into big trouble doing that.
    I've got to keep a look out for a set of those Bernard's. Love the memories, Scout! 😄👍

  • @TheKidFromYTown
    @TheKidFromYTown Месяц назад

    Those Bernard pliers are pretty cool.

  • @michaellindsay8934
    @michaellindsay8934 Месяц назад +1

    Baby carriages are just like the cars. Back in the 40's and 50's they had style, now not so much. I love tool history so I immediately subscribed to your friends channel, so thanks for the heads up on that. Another great episode as usual thank you

  • @joseffroula7415
    @joseffroula7415 Месяц назад +2

    Great job on the Bernard’s! And thanks for the recommendation-I’ve picked up a few at flea markets. Thanks to your show, I know what to look for.

  • @scroungasworkshop4663
    @scroungasworkshop4663 Месяц назад +2

    Great episode Scout and thanks for the Ballinator recommendation as that sort of thing is right up my alley. Back in 1987 when my son was born my parents in law purchased an old pram like those you showed and had it reconditioned and it look beautiful but what a pain in the arse it was to take anywhere. Once it went in the boot there was no room for anything else so it only got used when we were visiting their place otherwise we used a small collapsible one. Cheers mate, Stuart 🇦🇺

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Stuart- Back in the 50’s when cars were big and trunks were huge! 😂👍

  • @larrydye6374
    @larrydye6374 Месяц назад +1

    Noticed the toweling on your lathe bed when you were wire brushing. A very good idea, especially when using any sort of abrasive. You might say just a word about it to encourage the practice.
    Very interesting video today. Thanks.

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Larry- My Mother gave me that Lathe…. Nothing but joy working on it no matter what the project. 😃👍

  • @FrankRush-s2l
    @FrankRush-s2l Месяц назад +2

    Great info as always. I have a pair of Bernard pliers that need to be cleaned up. Your show inspired me to get then cleaned up and in the tool box

  • @tomdale1313
    @tomdale1313 Месяц назад +1

    power outage here, it lasted 17 hrs (bomb cyclone) A bomb cyclone is a large, intense mid-latitude storm that has low pressure at its centre, weather fronts and an array of associated weather, from blizzards to severe thunderstorms to heavy precipitation. Life in "Freeattle"

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Tom- Nothing makes you appreciate electricity more than a blackout. Glad you’re up and running again. 😃👍

  • @patjohnson3100
    @patjohnson3100 Месяц назад +3

    That was really interesting. I'm glad the history of Bernard tools is still alive. As a dumb kid I was interested in the pair of Bernards that belonged to my father, but at the time I couldn't learn more. Learning about the history came alot later and filled in the blanks. Not long ago I came across a high quality, heavy tool that belonged to my father and used the Bernard patent. I still haven't figured out what its purpose is. I'll check the channel you recommended.

  • @TheFWAdmin
    @TheFWAdmin Месяц назад +2

    You call them "baby caridges." I grew up knowing them as "pram's," which is short for "perambulator," and every time I am reminded of that, the word "perambulator" tends to stick in my head for a week. Thanks, Scout Crafter.

  • @keithsandford7253
    @keithsandford7253 Месяц назад +1

    Hi John fyi Baby Carriage over here across the pond in the uk they are known as prams short for perambulator. Your you tube channel is a definite must watch thanks for the time and effort you spend on broadening our horizons and making it so entertaining😊
    Keith

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      In all my years I have never heard that term! I’m going to try and use it next time I see someone walking with one! 😂👍

  • @andyc972
    @andyc972 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks John, as always a great episode, in the Uk go-carts, Soap-box carts or Bogies were also very popular, I always wanted to build one. My mother worked for a wealthy family as a Nanny when she was young and often took the children out in a Silver Cross "Carriage" so when she had her own family the one thing she wanted was a traditional pram. They are actually very practical if you don't have access to a car as you can fit a auxiliary seat for a toddler and they had a large wire basket under the main body - great for the groceries although these were also often put in with the baby !
    The Bernard pliers are a great design, check out a company in the UK called Maun industries out of Nottinghamshire, they still make a wide range of parallel pliers (and cutters and punches) at reasonable prices for many industrial uses !

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      They are so impracticable yet so lovely and heavy duty. 😃👍

  • @357magdad
    @357magdad Месяц назад +2

    I dig the go cart made with the lamb tongues box!

  • @jackthompson2132
    @jackthompson2132 Месяц назад +2

    I checked out the channel you share. Very informative.
    Nice cleanup on
    pliers.
    Great show today John ! You sure know a lot about baby buggies. 😃
    Thank You for sharing!

  • @janderson8401
    @janderson8401 Месяц назад +1

    What a coincidence, I spent part of Sunday afternoon assembling a double stroller for a family connected with our church. Instructions weren’t bad except that none of the parts were labelled.

  • @larrynelson734
    @larrynelson734 Месяц назад +2

    Hi John. Nice. I have never seen one of those pliers. Nice to know though. Great video again. Have a great week. 👍👍❤🤠...

  • @Uwannawatch
    @Uwannawatch Месяц назад +3

    I love those Bernards! I pick up every pair I see. Oh so you're the one that takes all the hardware off the road side furniture 😅

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      George I don’t take knobs off the gas ranges! 😂👍

    • @Uwannawatch
      @Uwannawatch Месяц назад

      @@ScoutCrafter 😂😂

  • @lotsabirds
    @lotsabirds Месяц назад +1

    Another great video! I used to have a great baby carriage from the 1930s! Huge, black and very ornate! It looked 14:16 like it came straight out of a Laurel and Hardy movie! It was a poor man's fleamarket find too!

  • @sonofedmund5004
    @sonofedmund5004 Месяц назад +2

    A company called Maun Industries made pliers similar to these in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. I've got both - I prefer the Bernards. Managed to get a pair from WW2 still in grease and paper packaging.😊

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +2

      Finding vintage NOS tools still in their original Cosmoline is a real treat! 😃👍

  • @CalPil0t
    @CalPil0t Месяц назад +2

    So Friday's built will be a go cart. Can't wait to see you in it... ;

  • @johncarlson7955
    @johncarlson7955 Месяц назад +2

    Hey John I did mix up some 50/50 works really well, thank you. I found a very inexpensive spray bottle at Walmart. I had a pair of Bernard pliers when I was a kid and was so curious about the mechanism. Thanks again

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      John The 50/50 is unbeatable however finding a vessel to hold it is harder than mixing it up! 🫣😂👍

  • @josephphillips865
    @josephphillips865 18 дней назад

    Now you just need a BMC No. 9 adjustable parallel locking plier.

  • @puneetnigam1002
    @puneetnigam1002 Месяц назад

    My favorite parallel jaw is Knipex Plier Wrench. German made and absolutely the best...

  • @johnroberts7280
    @johnroberts7280 Месяц назад +1

    Good show John

  • @icfreelynow
    @icfreelynow Месяц назад +2

    I used my Bernard pliers today to straighten out a sterling ring!

  • @wallyarent6548
    @wallyarent6548 Месяц назад +1

    John
    A show on tool storage and expandable reamers would be much appreciated

  • @6atlantis
    @6atlantis Месяц назад +1

    I was restoring and old, larger square die pipe threader last month and the nickel plating came off the “door” that opens up for the die. Was it the Evaporust I used or the fine brass coated wire wheel that stripped the nickel plating?

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      I’ve never been a fan of nickel coating. It’s not durable and tends to flake off after time. Many times I’ll remove it and just polish the steel. Nickel plating is good for things that won’t be handled or touched. 😃👍

  • @stevenb.182
    @stevenb.182 20 дней назад

    In my experience, the evil wire wheel only throws, into oblivion, those parts that are obsolete, and cannot be replaced.....

  • @mikebashford8198
    @mikebashford8198 Месяц назад +1

    In the UK, those retro baby carriages, which we call prams (short for perambulators) have made a comeback in the last few years - I quite often see brand new ones around.

  • @joeheilm
    @joeheilm Месяц назад +1

    I can't get over the fact that they make baby carriages for dogs...it's so weird. Cheers

  • @puneetnigam1002
    @puneetnigam1002 Месяц назад

    Central groove on Bernard is used for straightening wire. Pass the crinkled wire between the jaws and pass thru between the handles then just pull to straighten wire. :)

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад

      Bernard had scores of different jaw styles, he was really a genius ahead of his time! 😃👍

  • @bigvicsworkshop
    @bigvicsworkshop Месяц назад +2

    You know the baby carriage frame could be made into a great little foldable cart for the flea market/jacktown for ya.. I hate to keep puttin it out there that i watch call the midwife...lol..hate to loss my man card 😮 but its loaded with the carrages you like... The ones with class and style .😊

  • @Bci42
    @Bci42 Месяц назад +1

    A lot of people still call them perambulators.

  • @beerdrinker6452
    @beerdrinker6452 Месяц назад +2

    You could talk about saltines and it would be interesting. I joined Ballinator.

  • @paulongley2033
    @paulongley2033 Месяц назад

    Hi Scoutcrafter
    Here in the uk pram wheels were just gold ,we two made go-kart in the 70s .Kids just don't do this know .

  • @stevenpressley5956
    @stevenpressley5956 Месяц назад +2

    What is your EDC when you go on your poor mans stroll? Would be interesting to hear 👊🇺🇲👍

    • @ScoutCrafter
      @ScoutCrafter  Месяц назад +1

      I only carry a folding utility knife, flashlight and Multi-tip screwdriver. 😂👍

  • @billmcclure433
    @billmcclure433 Месяц назад +1

    My wire wheel works quite efficiently as designed. I have sent many parts into never never land.🙃

  • @rawbacon
    @rawbacon Месяц назад +4

    Not sure if this is a good experience with a baby carriage or not but it was an experience for sure. As kids we made a spook house in our basement and we had an old baby carriage, we put a homemade paper mache mask that was sorta of a mummy looking thing with some blood on it in the carriage and then the little girl next door came over and we told her out little baby cousin was in there. She lifted the blanket and the look of terror on her face and the scream she let out as she went running away was unforgettable and etched in my mind to this day, so much so I feel a little bad just thinking about it while writing this.

  • @saigaking
    @saigaking Месяц назад

    Great midweek mosh John love the pliers so interesting
    God bless take care 🇺🇸🇳🇿🇮🇱🗽🦅🪖45-47DJT

  • @aquariumaquarium8080
    @aquariumaquarium8080 Месяц назад +1

    I would of just got the frame for the wheels

  • @rustyblade5845
    @rustyblade5845 Месяц назад +3

    Be careful my brother from another mother. Picking knobs up at night time 😂😮😅 not sure this translates.

  • @Reggyontheroad
    @Reggyontheroad Месяц назад +1

    Hey John, you have opened a real can of worms with those players I have tried to make an interesting film for you. I hope you enjoy it

  • @bobk.1428
    @bobk.1428 Месяц назад

    If that baby carriage was in as good of shape as it looked you could of sold it for 200 bucks in marketplace

  • @Reggyontheroad
    @Reggyontheroad Месяц назад +3

    Gotcha now fella retired boy 😂😂👍🔩🔩

  • @samfeldman1508
    @samfeldman1508 Месяц назад +2

    Reminds me of the scene on the stairs with the baby carriage? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin

  • @setdown2
    @setdown2 Месяц назад +2

    What... you didn't take the baby carriage...there's so many things you can do with it it's limitless...why...why...you could've made a GO CART...and not worry about getting in trouble...🥺...🖖

  • @troyb1733
    @troyb1733 Месяц назад

    I have a pair of Bernrds without the cutter. Those baby buggys are cool but they look like a small casket with wheels and no lid to me.

  • @patmadix172
    @patmadix172 Месяц назад +1

    My pliers are Sargent

    • @GWP323
      @GWP323 Месяц назад

      Watch Ballinator's video on Bernards.

  • @MrBoom246
    @MrBoom246 Месяц назад +1

    Boom 😂😂😂😂😂