<html> <body> At 08:05 AM 7/26/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At 7:52 am -0400 26/7/06, Farrell wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Lloyd Meyer from Renner USA sells a similar pair of pliers.   <img src="cid:7.0.1.0.2.20060726123922.0245c888@houston.rr.com.1" width=152 height=134 alt="[]"> </blockquote> At 6:41 am -0500 26/7/06, Porritt, David wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I've seen one of those but it has been many years ago.  I never thought IÕd have the hand strength to actually remove a grand hammer with one so I never tried to acquire one.  Can a normal human actually remove a hammer with them?</blockquote></blockquote> David, I bought a pair many years ago (Schaff?) and I love them. They work great. Avery <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Certainly, because of the multiplication in the leverage, the fact that they're 9" long and the parallel action of the Bernard design.  The tool Terry mentions (thanks Terry), as you see, has neither multiplication nor parallel action and would, from the look of it, require superhuman strength.  My key-easing pliers  are of the same pattern, probably from the same source. The best quality tools of this pattern were made by Schollhorn before Sargent took them over in 1945 (see <http://www.rostratool.com/historical.asp>) and in the past a huge variety of pliers etc. were available.  Not so now, it seems. JD</blockquote></body> </html>