Wanted: The oldest pair of Klein Side-Cutting Pliers

Klein Tools, Lincolnshire, Ill., is searching for the world’s oldest pair of Klein Side-Cutting Pliers.
March 4, 2013
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Klein Tools, Lincolnshire, Ill., is searching for the world’s oldest pair of Klein Side-Cutting Pliers. Customers can see if their pliers are eligible by determining if their tool is the standard side-cutting type, bears the original Klein trademark and has code marking that will be found inside the handle. Photos of the pliers and completed form may be mailed or uploaded to Klein’s website. For specifications/details, please visitwww.kleintools.com/oldestpliers. The winning pliers will be selected by Klein Tools’ engineering team based on above requirements. The tool owner will receive $2,500 in cash and approximately $2,500 in new Klein Tools. All photo entries must be uploaded to our website or mailed and postmarked by May 31. Details

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.