Post #2448080
2026-04-28 03:30 UTC
This is by far the coolest and most ingenious old world tool I've ever owned. It's so well designed I might even make a video about it. Pictured: heavy duty collapsible compound cable snips, dark steel components elegantly shaped, curving and twisting in masterful ways. Fastened with thick rounded rivets. Cleverly proportioned to produce many times the cutting force of fixed snips while being able to fold neatly into a compact shape.
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@1moremin@mastodon.ie 2026-04-28 03:41
@neotoy@mastodon.social the perfect object, a treasure from the old world
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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange 2026-04-28 03:51
@neotoy@mastodon.social wow, and looking like they were forged at the beginning of time. COOL! I have an old set of sheers and the metal is SO much better than anything else new.
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@stereo4x4@techhub.social 2026-04-28 03:55
@neotoy@mastodon.social that thing is a great example of an invention that is absolutely obvious and self explaining if its on the table, but non trivial to come up with. Moving the pivot point of the handles allows it to fold and with two stages it amplifies the force approx. 10 times. I wonder why there are no modern implementations of that idea.