Well that was a royal screw uo

[Radio Ron w4ron]

I'd been reading the thread about old vices, I decided to redo my old vice I won as a door prize at a CB Jamboree back in 1970. It was funny how I won it, we were sitting in front of the stage and they were drawing numbers for door prizes, they had several nice radios and antennas, I looked at my buddy I was there with and said "I'll probably win that big *** vice instead of a radio..."
Well the next ticket they drew was for the big vice and I won it. I was only 18 and didn't have a shop of my own so I sold the vice to my dad for $20.
25 years later I inherited it when my dad died.
It's been sitting on the floor under my work bench for 25 years and had gotten very dirty and rusty.
Yesterday afternoon I dug it out and wipped it off the best I could and took it apart.
A couple hours ago I went out and set up my soda blaster rig and cleaned it up. I got covered by the soda by blasting in the open, this is why I'm building my blasting cabinet, I wish it was done...
I decided to come in the house and take a shower to get the soda off and run to the store and buy some paint for it, I think I'm going to use Rustolem Hammer Tone green.
When I walked out of the shop and closed the door I knew I had screwed up because my keys were clipped to my cane INSIDE THE SHOP, so I was locked out. I have a key to the house hidden under a rock out in our woods so I could get in the house, but I don't have a spare key to the shop, and my car keys are on the key ring, clipped on my cane.
So I guess I get to sit around the house until my wife comes home with her key to the shop.
Guess what I'm going to do tomorrow, go to the hardware store and have a couple more keys made.
Oh well, there's a NCIS marathon on USA this afternoon... I might do some reading too, I got 5 more books on WW2 in the mail yesterday from a fellow collector.
I may spend some time in the display room too.

Oh well, it's screw up Thursday. I hope everyone has a great rest of the day.

 

[SteveCh]

I have so many extra keys hidden about....

For my old, old airplane, I have one in my wallet, one on the key ring, one in my truck, and one more in the ring-binder pilot manual for the plane. For my pickup, besides one in my wallet, I have one wired to the frame behind a front tire, under the car. Don't ask me why I need so many....

 

[koditten]

I do want to see the vice. Please take some pics. We love pictures.

KO

 

[jomobco]

I love key coded garage door openers Saved my bacon more than once.

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

I do want to see the vice. Please take some pics. We love pictures. KO

I'd love to post some pix, but my camera with the pix in it is locked in the shop with my damn keys.

 

[Falcon67]

All our locks are configured for single key access. All doors get one key, all yard and shed locks get another and the race car trailers and equipment get one more. I have more keys for getting in the building at work than I do for home.

But still -been there, done that *****!

 

[Zeke]

You can always dig it out and wipp it again.

 

[PeterB.]

I hear ya and agree fully. Master keys, keyless entries are worth the money!

 

[lotsoftools]

I love key coded garage door openers Saved my bacon more than once.

x2. My shop in Louisiana was a good 500' from the house. I can't count how many times I made that walk only to realize I forgot to bring the key with me. When I built my shop here a keypad door lock was one of the main requirements.

 

[nehog]

And that's why I have key-less entry on all my doors, house and shop/garage! As long as my four remaining brain cells can remember the magic number, I'm all set!

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

I almost screwed up again, I decided to go out and fillup the suet feeders for the birds, I came real close to walking out without taking the only spare door key. I guess I need to just sit here in the recliner before I get in trouble AGAIN. It's only about 4 1/2 hours before Belinda gets home...

 

[Glenn M.]

I'd love to post some pix, but my camera with the pix in it is locked in the shop with my damn keys.

Now that sounds like my kind of luck...

 

[LX-Markham]

This was very misleading. With a thread title like "royal screwup", then a couple paragraphs about an old inherited vice from a deceased father, ....I thought you somehow broke or wrecked it.

I think "royal" was overstating it.

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

"Royal" because I'm sitting on my **** smoking a stogie when I could be enjoying the afternoon working in the shop.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I've locked myself out of the garage a few times. I'm glad I have a spare key but maybe I should have another.

 

[duc916]

Why does your wife have a key to your shop? Is that the Royal Screw up?

 

[Bull]

Ron, what kind of WWII books do you collect?

 

[Jagmandave]

I have keys for cars I don't even own anymore, let alone keys for the shop, house, tractor, ZTR and on and on.......but I can't be locked out of the shop as long as the door opener works.

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

Ron, what kind of WWII books do you collect?

Most anything that catches my eye, especially anything related to radio, radar and enigmas.
Especially Enigmas and Radar.
I work with one of my best friends who restores Enigma machines, we've worked on them for the NSA museum and Bletchley Park.
I collect vacuum tubes and have several very early WW2 radar tubes, I really enjoy researching that history.
A GREAT if you haven't read it is "Tuxedo Park", a lot of technological WW2 history you've likely never heard before.

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

Why does your wife have a key to your shop? Is that the Royal Screw up?

She has keys to everything, my shop is in the garage and her garden tools are in one corner of it.

 

[east_tn_emc]

Sears once sold an outside pad for opening their garage doors (actually made by Liftmaster, so it works with my Liftmaster doors too) that opens your garage door by reading your fingerprint. I have the garage door openers on my house and shop both programmed to open with my fingerprint. Very convenient because I can get into my house with one finger and no keys!

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

Sears once sold an outside pad for opening their garage doors (actually made by Liftmaster, so it works with my Liftmaster doors too) that opens your garage door by reading your fingerprint. I have the garage door openers on my house and shop both programmed to open with my fingerprint. Very convenient because I can get into my house with one finger and no keys!

I would never use a powered garage door opener, too big a chance of someone having one of the remotes that'll scan for the code and just open any door.
Only one of my overhead doors opens, the one on the shop side has stuff stored in the overhead that the opening door would hit. The other side opens so I can get the tractor out.

 

[koditten]

I'm loving this thread. Thanks for starting it Ron. Kinda fun just commenting on nothing.

This is why I love this site.

BTW, I forget to lock my shop more then I remember to lock it. Your doing better than me.

Carry on.

 

[Professur]

So none of you guys have iris scanners?

 

[Kevin54]

I have one of these beside my garage door. It has the garage key, the house key and the shed key. I also have a electric keypad on the house garage. I always had a bad habit of locking myself out of the house. No more.

 

[Thumper68]

I used to have this issue all the time, when I needed new padlocks for the sheds I went to a locksmith and they made 2 pad locks for me that use the same key as the shop ( I need to go get one more for the boat house)

I also have a few keys for the shop hidden around the place.

 

[Dave B.]

Very convenient because I can get into my house with one finger and no keys!

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