At the furniture bank this morning, one of the staff came over and asked if we could identify this Craftsman tool that was donated.   One of the other guys found out, but any guesses?

 

 

Bottle opener?

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Dave has it.

10 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Bottle opener?

Is it metric?

9 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Is it metric?

Only when you use it right handed.

Reminds of the good old days of the returnable bottles.

1 hour ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Reminds of the good old days of the returnable bottles.

Depends on what you drink. Tecate pays five pesos for each returned bottle.....in Mexico. 

Boy that was fast, Maybe Dave has been doing his homework

4 hours ago, Gerald said:

Boy that was fast, Maybe Dave has been doing his homework

Ya' gotta be able to open the bottle of whatever to wash down the donuts. So who else would know better than Dave about the necessary tools for that activity?

One of the ways to open a bottle of Guinness.....my usual one says Blatz on it...and also works on cans...

10 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Reminds of the good old days of the returnable bottles.

Be careful what you wish for.  

First job I had..as a 6yr old, to earn my allowance...was to sort empty pop bottles back into the proper wooden crates...and have them all stack up and ready for pick up..

 

There was also something called a Church Key....

 

Before the time of the Pull Tabs, you needed to pointy end of a bottle opener to make 2 holes in a can of beer ( BOTH ON THE TOP OF THE CAN!) one to let the FIZZ out, and the second one to drink out of..

8 hours ago, JimM said:

Be careful what you wish for.  

I'm sure I'm not in the majority on this, but I do wish for the return of returnables. My first real job as a teenager was which a small grocary chain and I spent a lot of time sorting those bottles as Steven described above...but I was much older at the time.

As neighborhood kids, we would pull our wagons around scouring the roadsides collecting bottles people had tossed. We would then return them to the little neighborhood stores for our pocket change to buy pop or baseball cards or whatever. Amazing the number of people that just tossed bottles out even back then.

 

Coke bottles were the most common. Our little county seat had its own Coca-Cola bottling plant. Other big finds were Pepsi, Nehi, occasionally 7Up and Orange Crush.

 

As we got older, we'd "gamble" drawing a random empty Coke bottle out of the empty cases checking the bottom for bottling plant location. Depending on the day either closest or farthest distance draw won.

On 6/27/2024 at 9:46 PM, steven newman said:

First job I had..as a 6yr old, to earn my allowance...was to sort empty pop bottles back into the proper wooden crates...and have them all stack up and ready for pick up..

 

There was also something called a Church Key....

 

Before the time of the Pull Tabs, you needed to pointy end of a bottle opener to make 2 holes in a can of beer ( BOTH ON THE TOP OF THE CAN!) one to let the FIZZ out, and the second one to drink out of..

I sure hope they did not have you opening your own back then. I did the bottle sort in my Dad's store till I got out of HS. Never liked that job and would rather clean out the back room.

When I was in high school I worked at the local grocery.  One of the jobs was to sort the bottles.  Hated it.

We must've had lots of spare time, back then. We'd hook the lip rings of two coke bottle together and split one off. Then, We'd also make rings with a half dollar coin and a spoon. Haven't seen a half dollar coin in ages. 

8 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Haven't seen a half dollar coin in ages. 

You probably have a pocket full of them. They are called nickels now.