Volgograd Tractor Pliers 

We missed you Tom

We definitely need an updated shop tour along with any new acquisitions.

Almost passed on a half an hour+ plier repair, but wait, it's Tom Lipton. Very glad I took the time to watch the master at work...

I recently had to clean up my late father's estate, and in the process I disposed of a lot of his old tools. Now that a few months have passed and my head is a little clearer, I sure wish I had been more patient and kept some of those old tools. Sure, i can replace them with junk from harbor freight that's barely good enough, but the personal history won't be there. I totally get this guy wanting to restore something like this.

What an honour to be able to fix the irreplaceable.

Clickspring, This Old Tony and Oxtool all in one week?

Thanks for sharing the story and tool work with us, Tom. And you're just going to casually lean on that surface plate with an oblique reference to it... What a find that must've been.

Thanks, Tom! Great to see you back. Maxim is lucky to work with someone who never met an old hand tool that didn't deserve some TLC and you are lucky to work with someone with access to good Eastern European baking. My late brother-in-law was Slovakian and his mother and sister baked THE BEST filled pastries. I can't remember the name of the treat, but I recall what a special Christmas tradition it made!

Hear me now believe me later...I put my OX tool Tee Shirt on today, and turn on RU-vid and long time no see TOM is there! Great refurbishing job on those vintage pliers Tom.💯👍

Great job Tom. Someday when we are all gone they will just be a pair of pliers but your excellent work and video will now insure how special they really were. Thanks for doing that.

Yeah very enjoyable to watch Tom. Good to see you back and doing well. Thanks for taking us along this restoration. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

Meatloaf always satisfies! From a previous vid; I have a 4 pound hammer that’s been getting a lot of use cutting stone recently, it had a perpetually wobbly head- knocked it off, reshaped the end of the handle (ash), added a new wedge and drowned it in red loctite. Not the slightest hint of movement since. Great tip.

Thanks Tom. Enjoyed immensely. Good to see you! Hope the shop is well on its way.

wow, again a "family heirloom catlitterscoop"-grade project. super fun to watch. thanks for sharing again, Tom. cheers.

Wonderful job on a tool with serious history. Thanks for sharing it with us Tom.

Tom, thank you so much for your wonderful work. It is very precious to us - this is the tool of my father, grandfather of Maxim. I am very pleased that you like my pies which are baked according to my grandmother’s recipe. I promise to bake it specially for you. Sincerely - Maxim's mother.

Thank you Tom. Very good to "stand in the corner" and watch you work your magic.

Tom! So happy to see you. Thanks. The pliers project is stuff I like. Yes, I am sentimental and the story is its value (particularly when it works well). Your “repair” has only added to the story and enjoyment of your friend’s pliers. We also shared some of that in some way.

I like that filing/sanding trick. Now I have to go find a project to apply it on. Good to see a video Tom!

It was like you were never anyway I continually look over many of you videos. I have learnt so much about surface plates, using and measuring off of. Thanks mate.

Glad to have you back Tom. Really missed your work. Excellent work on repairing and preserving an historic piece.

Thanks for breathing some new life into that venerable old tool. Good to see you again!

Project Idea: What about finishing your wifes printing/roller press?

I believe those are a Crestoloy pattern. I have a pair with almost identical handles. Great to have you back. 👍😊

Wahoooo! Just happy you're still here.

Nice Technique: Need to service some heirlooms and, this will help. Good to have you back. Thank you.

Just going to say thank you. I started following a bit back maybe 12 years. Your tradesmen way to work out problems has really increased my skills and i appreciate you and what you brought to the table. Many thanks a my Dad would say.

So glad to see you!

Work ethic and ability makes a common bond universal and trustworthy-well done.

Glad your back Tom. Fun video. Shop Tour ....

Glad to see you back, Mr. Lipton!

Glad to see you back

Thoroughly enjoyed Tom! ATB Robin

Good to see you again and thanks for a good story.

Seeing that chip breaker at 20:58 brings back fond memories of trade school with my Dad. Thanks Tom. Regards, "Duck"

This is one of my favorite videos of yours. It's heartwarming and educational all at once. Thanks for taking on this project and sharing, i learned a few things and had a smile on my face the whole way through.

Those tractor plants had a real history in the Battle of Stalingrad . It's no wonder that your friend attaches such a sentimental value to them .

Today someone broke our rented car and stole all our vacation stuff. And now I see the notification about video from Tom. 😢 Dropped a tear, thanks that you're here and that you made today's night better.

You've added greatly to the history of the pliers! And thanks for coming back.

Hey Tom. Nice to hear from you.

Thanks for sharing interesting story and neat repair

Well bin that long I sort of wrote you off . Had look other day see if you had posted anything then just found this by chance Bin long time between drinks mate .what we won't to see is more of ya not one every 2 months you move to the new shop and that was the end of you glad your back we hope on a more regular basis cheers

Thanks for sharing 👍 Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water 💧

Finally a video with Tom again!! I could not click it fast enough. Hope your doing well man, everybody needs breaks, but boy is it good to see you.

Its great to see you are still fixing all of our problems.

Thank you, didn’t know this was even possible even with the tools, knowledge and skills available. Some things are beyond price.

Loved seeing these historical pliers get a new lease on life.

Nice to see you back and an interesting little project.

Pretty cool fix. Thanks for sharing and welcome back.

Great to see Oxtools again!!

Just this morning I was checking your channel to see if there was any new videos I might have missed. Glad to see an update!

Some things are just worth saving. Good to see you again, Tom!

Nice repair Tom! Thanks for another fantastic video.

Welcome back, Tom. You were sorely missed. Please keep your videos coming.

Tom and a file. Good to see again.

Good seeing you again Tom. Looking great!

Good to see you back Tom, always a treat. Was kind of suspecting the aliens had abducted you or something. Cool pliers story, love old school tools with a backstory. Some of my hand-me-down tools from Grandpa are 1930's versions of that same look pliers so even more interesting to me. Others are from his decades as a machinist at Mare Island where he worked after his auto shop folded after the stock market crash.

Good to see you again. Thanks for bringing us along with this project.

Everyone will be glad when you retire and move to your shop full time. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

"Cow-jawed" is how my grandfather would have described those.

Nice to hear from you!

Best content on the web . It's not why it's because. And that's beautiful. I really miss your content ox thanks for sharing

Looking good Tom it's sure is great to see your doing well Great video

Enjoyed the story and the video on the fix. Good to see you again.

Nice work Tom! Glad to have a new video from you, you have been missed.

Thanks for the video. Glad your back!

Welcome back Tom we miss you. Nice job.

Good to see you tom. 10 years ago I didnt know how to use an edgefinder. Now I run an areospace machine shop mostly due credit to you, robin and stephan.

Hello Tom , I’m happy to see you on the Chanel agin , it’s been a long time . Wonderful your back , it’s enjoying to watch your video again . Yuval

Lovely. I bought several tools from the old Soviet Union. They’re generally not very good - except for one 200mm straight edge - but they do have a history. My favorite is a tachometer built in 1938 in Leningrad. It was built very roughly and was in terrible shape. But I was able to restore it completely. It’s still not a good tool, but it was built in Leningrad during the height of the Stalinist purges that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens, especially Leningraders. That makes it a valuable artifact to me.

Tools with sentimental value are pretty amazing, at least to the owner. I know exactly where the Klein hammer my dad gave me for my 16th birthday is (it got left in a ceiling when I was hurried out of a job by a co-worker). Someone will find it someday, like I've found other guy's tools, and wonder what the history is behind it. At least in this tool's case, we know. All it needs is a little oxtoolco stamp on the replaced part. :)

Missed you hammer man.😎

Great to see a new video. Thank you 🙂. Look forward to the next one, whenever work/life allows 👍🇳🇱

Thanks for posting, great to see you again.

A feel good video to finish off a pretty good day. Magic, much appreciated!

Great to see you Tom! Thanks for another inspiring video! ; -)

When I go on vacation I always try to buy used tools. Over 24 years ago I was in Moldova on a NATO mission with the SeaBees and got a very old pair of looping plyers at the weekend market in the Capital. I always assumed the were made in the Soviet Union. I also bought a very nice used garden hoe from a villager woman.

This was a nice surprise, thanks Tom!

Thanks so much for sharing your very thoughtful repair!

I absolutely love your videos! This was an awesome project. I think I'm going to do the same with a pair of diagonal cutters I've had since the 90's, now that I know how to do it. THANK YOU!

So good to see a new video from you. Glad you're doing good.

Tom, I believe Cresent Tool made a similar pair of pliers in WWII. Perhaps they were a War production standard. I have my father's tools from that period, and in his kit is a similar pair of needle-nose pliers.

What a treat, classic oxtools at work. The bench quivered for a moment when you picked up that file, eh? ;-)

Great to have you back Tom

Excellent! I bought a Moore#3….because it was a good price. Could you do a segment on proper use of jig bores. I’ve only ever used vertical mills

An original Moore hand scraped surface plate….omg I’d love to visit that. If I had it I’d keep it as a museum piece.

Thanks for sharing, Tom! What do we want to see? I would love to see the EDM in action sometime.

Interesting video. Thanks for posting Tom.

Thanks Tom, good to see you again. Easy on the blue moly - I'm covered in the stuff just from watching the video 🤣

Thanks Tom, I always enjoy your content From the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas

Nice to see you back man! Very cool project. And I love to see a master machinist take thought, time and care for no reason other than to preserve some history. Nice!

Greetings from Argentina, just last week's Monday I came to your channel wondering if yt wasn't sending alerts, glad to see you back.

So glad you're still with us! For a project could you show what the bent stem with the .250 ball in the old style wiggler set is for? Just curious.

Glad to see you again. My idea is a little meatloaf. Thanks for sharing and cheers!

We need a picture of the cookies!

Good idea on the MASK used near the end. I believe I have some like that with AT&T on them. Maybe Western Electric. Important to watch this one for me as well. As mine are about 100 years old. Several years ago, I was watching a tool company making these. A half dozen or more were made from a common blank. Different grinding and shaping and bending. RU-vid naturally.

Very glad to see Oxtools back!!

Nice restoration. Good to see a video from you again. Some meatloaf would be great.

It's always a pleasure watching you're videos. I've copied some of them to the best of my ability. Thanks. Anything you decide to do is going to be fun to watch.

Outstanding repair great technique. Enjoyed the video and prosses. Thank you Sir.