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Title: Today's finds
Post by: Wrenchmensch on August 21, 2011, 05:00:29 PM

We took a day off from church today. Found, were 3 wrenches as shown below:

• a 19 1/2" Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad doe wrench stamped C & O with 1 1/4" and 1 1/2" openings,
• a late-model Boyertown Casket Co. stainless steel-handled wrench with a 5/16" allen screwdriver end used to screw lids shut; and
• a "B" embossed s-wrench with doe hex open ends

Yes, you guys have seen the A - E s-wrench series before, but these wrenches are uncommon, e.g. you can't have enough of them.  And Boyertown Casket Company has gone out of business; the building is now a nursing home!

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Papaw on August 22, 2011, 12:38:31 AM

I have something like that Boyertown, but unmarked. It came in a box of tools, and I thought it was a window crank! I'll did it up and give it another look.

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: skipskip on August 22, 2011, 11:30:29 AM

Papaw wrote:

I have something like that Boyertown, but unmarked. It came in a box of tools, and I thought it was a window crank! I'll dig it up and give it another look.

dig it up?

odd choice of words..  :)

Skip

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Wrenchmensch on August 22, 2011, 04:01:54 PM

Not to put too fine a point on it, Papaw has made a grave error.

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: rusty on August 22, 2011, 04:35:53 PM

Yer killing me here....

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: kxxr on August 22, 2011, 05:59:49 PM

bury funny!
(best i could do)

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Wrenchmensch on August 22, 2011, 06:59:37 PM

That one was D.O.A.!

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Papaw on August 22, 2011, 07:38:44 PM

My college diploma has been buried for years!

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Wrenchmensch on August 23, 2011, 09:11:06 AM

I guess we've concluded the funny bits. As a judge of humor, I would call it a dead heat.

Title: Re: Today's finds
Post by: Branson on August 23, 2011, 09:57:48 AM

Also commonly referred to as a "coffin lock key."   As for the funny bits, in the immortal words of Monty Python, "It's not dead; it's only sleeping."