I think they're called mechanic's fingers because they can be used to retrieve small items that fall into a radiator, or some other hard-to-reach place.
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Bob Kennedy wrote: > Those are called mechanics fingers. Don't know why, I was a mechanic for years and never used them on anything I worked on... I can see where they'd be useful in grabbing clumps of stuff like hair or maybe a rag. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
