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Nope, not Pyro tools, although I have just found some more that I had forgotten about!!
Also just taken some pics for Pauluk to upload to the discussion forum. Pics of what used to be done in 'the good old days' and one a lot more recently

Some sort of flaring tool for conduit?????

Trimixleccy,
Are these tools something that could possibly be used here in the states?

To be perfectly honest about their use in the U.S. I have no idea! I will have to be a bit cagey here so that I do not give the game away..... I assume that you have a similar situation there, as we do here, which would warrant their use.

I will come clean tomorrow about their use.

Am I allowed a second guess?
For turning the knurled rings on old light switch face plates?

Are they Locknut tools ??

Don't you mean twisting them around so they're U-ground DOWN?!

Geoff was right first time, it is a shade ring holder. For those of us with large hands/fingers it is not possible to reach within narrow shades to remove the lock ring so that the shades can be removed. The lamp is removed, and either of the 2 tools locked onto the ring, this is then unscrewed and removed. Simple really, but I have never seen any others. Obviously now that Geoff has had a second guess, his first guess is now not admissible, so there are no winners hey ho!

[This message has been edited by TrimixLeccy (edited 02-26-2007).]

... My first guess was going to be that they were an Obstetrician's tools...so much for that idea...

Only for a baby with a teeny tinyhead.