the ultimate tool chest

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[WmZiggy]

When I was stationed in Antarctica in 2005 I ran the chapel program at McMurdo and the South Pole. There is a communion cup, made of silver, that was used on Captain Ross's ship, the HMS Erebus that discovered and explored the Ross Sea and Erebus Island where McMurdo Station (named after Ross's First Mate) is located today. I was charged with carrying the Erebus Chalice to the Pole. It is the oldest artifact in existence today from that era of Antarctic exploration (1840s). The cup is large and is kept in the off-season at the Anglican Cathedral in Christchurch. That Cathedral was destroyed in the recent earthquake experienced in New Zealand, but that is another story.

After I carried the cup to Antarctica I put it in it's display case in the chapel where my office as the command chaplain was located. People would come by the chapel wanting to see the cup. I'd ask them if they would like to hold the cup and have their picture taken with it. Most people couldn't believe I would let them do that. I would tell them the cup has been around for 165 years (in 2005) carried on the HMS Erebus through God only knows how many bad storms (the seas down there are the stormiest in the world) and it is still with us. I would ask them not to drop it, but otherwise they would do it no harm holding it and examining it. No one ever harmed it and you should have seen the smiles on people's faces.

Dollars to donuts the Studley chest was bounced around in the trunk of a few cars or the back of a truck during it's 100 plus years of existence. The oldest book in my library was printed in 1676 - an ethics book (I used to teach ethics, something lawyers should read) written by Jeremy Taylor, chaplain to King Charles the 1st and 2nd. It survived Cromwell, is printed on rag paper and will be around long after I'm gone. I thumb through it reading it from time-to-time and I don't wear white gloves.

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Good for you! I understand.(At least I think so) What good is anything in a box glass or otherwise?

Like silverware. It ages gracefully when used daily.

[WmZiggy]

My sentiments exactly. Nothing is much good under glass and hermetically sealed is an illusion.

[moose]

Ahhhhhh but sized correctly or not, a tuning wrench still has no relationship to a monkey wrench. The wrenches you so have deligently pointed out are indeed wrenches but they do not tune anything much less a piano and there is no distant (uncle or otherwise) kinship. The tuning wrench incidentally is called a tuning hammer or if you like, a tuning lever of which there are at least two in the case.

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Ahhhhhh but sized correctly or not, a tuning wrench still has no relationship to a monkey wrench. The wrenches you so have deligently pointed out are indeed wrenches but they do not tune anything much less a piano and there is no distant (uncle or otherwise) kinship. The tuning wrench incidentally is called a tuning hammer or if you like, a tuning lever of which there are at least two in the case.

Ok! Fergit I said anything about 'tuning' with the miniature monkey wrench!:D

Wasn't all that 'serious' anyway. I was just monkeying around!:)

I was just amused at the presence of what is considered a commitee designed tool(aka knuckle buster). Then again, crescent wrenches had probably not yet been 'invented'.