Keys

[w8cbc]

What's on your "weekday" ring?

I have 11.

7 personal: ignition and boot for the Polara, two for the house, three for the apartment.

4 work: Two vans, site master, office/studio master.

It's progress. I once had 17 keys - another car, more for work, two for storage. I've been doing my best to shed them.

Soon I'll have only three personal. I'll be turning in my apartment keys at the end of the month, and one of the keys that came with the house doesn't fit anything that I can find. I may shed one of the van keys from my work subring, to make three there for a grand total of six.

[w5alt]

Apartment and gate keys, that's it - 2.

[KB3LIX]

Now: 2, House & van

Several years ago:

3 rings with at least 30 keys each. (Probably more) Most were for rental towers gate & door locks, before they went to Card access. I had over 80 towers upon which I rented space. It sure was a "B" when one of the owners had to change keys because some tenant was 'evicted' and they had to change locks.
Swipe card access changed all that hassle.

[ab8ma]

My Car.
John Deere Tractor
Bank vault.
House.

The others - unknown or forgotten.

[w5alt]

Darn, I forgot to mention the most important keys!

LTA paddles and straight key combo, LTA sideswiper, an Emeco straight key and a HiMound bug. Then at home a J-36 bug, a J-38 straight key , Bencher paddles and a sideswiper.

Actually all of those get more use than the apartment keys.

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (w5alt @ Aug. 23 2006,15:36)]Darn, I forgot to mention the most important keys!

LTA paddles and straight key combo, LTA sideswiper, an Emeco straight key and a HiMound bug. Then at home a J-36 bug, a J-38 straight key , Bencher paddles and a sideswiper.

Actually all of those get more use than the apartment keys.
Three Benchers lined up side-by-side on the operating bench.

Only ones I really need to know about.

Locks are for honest people. Crooks can get in, anyway.

[W3MIV]

CT paddles from Ukraine; old Nye-Viking Speed-X mounted on a 4"x6" chunk of 5/16" brass emboss die salvaged from my days in prepress, and a newer straight key made in Spain, a Llaves I think, that would be very nice had its spring not come off the rear axle of an old Ford police car.

In my pocket: Car, house in Ellicott City, MD, house in Locust Grove, VA, and post box.

Like to travel light.

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[w8cbc]

There's an engineer here who has at least seventy keys in a big jumbled ball of interlocking rings he carries around every day. I've been tempted to hide the whole thing on him. Another nice trick would be to take the ball completely apart into its components, gather them all together, throw them up in the air and let them fall where they will. Then walk away and try not to laugh too loudly when the outraged uproar begins.

My work keys are on a clip. It comes off my ring on the weekend.

Telegraph keys - an unmarked white-metal J-38 type (likely 1940s or earlier) plugged into the Apache, a brass Western Union 2-A plugged into the IC-751A, an unmarked generic with a plastic frame shared between the IC-551D and the IC-271A, and a medium-sized lever/microswitch for mobile operation with the TS-440.

[ab8ma]

I always believed that the optimum age to initiate piano lessons was 4 years old. I have since been informed that this may be too early for some, as they may not yet be able yet to reach all the keys.

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif j-38

[kf6rdn]

I thought this thread was about CW keys, then I find it's been taken over by... CW keys..

Well I lost my bencher sk after field day. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
I just bought from flea bay some kinda chinese army surplus thing that looks like a bencher knock off, and a bencher paddle

[k9kxq]

House
Both Vehicles
Shed
Tractor
Vibroplex Iambic
Vibroplex Bug

That's all folks... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[G8ADD]

I like E flat minor!

73

Brian G8ADD

[W3MIV]

Quote[/b] (G8ADD @ Aug. 24 2006,04:59)]I like E flat minor!

73

Brian G8ADD
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[WB2WIK]

I have a set of Russian Gratchkis.

Those are the keys to my gratch. The one with the cars in it... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[AC0H]

House, main and deadbolt.
Garage
Truck
Lawn Tractor
Hard Drives
Parents House

Hi-Mound HK-708
Kent Paddles.

[k0ews]

Quote[/b] (AC0H @ Aug. 24 2006,11:54)]House, main and deadbolt.
Garage
Truck
Lawn Tractor
Hard Drives
Parents House

Hi-Mound HK-708
Kent Paddles.
You have a key to Mom and Dad's house? How the #@(* to you rate? I'm feeling bad, man. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC7UP]

Car key
House key
Blue racer
Curt

[AC0H]

Quote[/b] ]You have a key to Mom and Dad's house? How the #@(* to you rate? I'm feeling bad, man.
They like me better. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[N3ATS]

Car 1
Car 1 Trunk
Car 2
Truck
Truck cap
Parents house
P.O. Box
Front Door
Garage Door

Then there's the work keys...

[w4rot]

Not sure...
Can't find 'em
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