Shop Warning

/ Shop Warning #22  
Well I stand corrected, it can be both diags short for diagonal cutters, or dykes, also short for diagonal cutters. I learned something, guess I'll clock out...
 
/ Shop Warning #23  
Dykes? I thought it was diags, short for diagonal cutters.
Dykes was a major plier manufacturer many years ago making all kinds of hand tools / pliers ( needle nose, diagonal and side cutters, etc ) and old timers starting calling pliers dykes just like we use "kleenex" to refer to facial tissues. Loss of trademark due to ubiquity.
 
/ Shop Warning #24  
Doesn't anybody know the proper name for side cutters is dykes?
I always thought Dykes are what I called lineman's plyers. I didn't think of them as side cutters because they do so much more than cut. There's a crimper and a crusher and a wirecutter
But apparently, I was wrong

 
/ Shop Warning #25  
In area, linesmans pliers are referred to as Klien's.
 
/ Shop Warning #26  
We called cutters dykes and lineman"s pliers LPs. A very small screwdriver is a tweaker.
 
/ Shop Warning #28  
Now I know I am gong to offend somebody but the official shop warning has been posted. Doesn't anybody know the proper name for side cutters is dykes?
Dykes are short for diagonal cutters, an entirely different tool from side cutters.
 

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