Speaking of mechanic's tools...
An old mechanic (worked for Eastern among others to give you an idea) gave me a tool box and it had some aviation tools in them. There are tools that I have now for airplanes that I havn't been able to get any A&Ps to identify (I suspect that some of them are specialty tools for radial engines and possibly old radial airliners).
To give you an idea of the tools' age, there is at least one Snap-On piece labled "not guar" for not guaranteed... they stamped "not guar" on the tools they produced during WWII for the war effort. There are other tools possibly older than that. This guy was an A&P for a very long time...
Need to stop by and see him again next time I'm in Georgia. He's a neat guy, from Holland originally.
Anyway, some of these tools look like a socket extension, and at the end there is a C shaped piece. Think of a small cylinder shape with an open side. Anyone have any idea what it could be?
He didn't give me any safety wire pliers, or I'd offer them to you. Most all of the tools are either generic enough that I can use them or obscure enough that no one can. Now that I think about it, I wonder if Everts' mechanics might know (since they run DC-6s). Too bad all the Tools are still in GA.