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He's got some weird world domination plan, rather than resort to open warfare he's going to kill us all of using Frustration. :BlueTeamE
Made something from a photo have a guess
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He's got some weird world domination plan, rather than resort to open warfare he's going to kill us all of using Frustration. :BlueTeamE
Sorry guy's for taking so long its just been work, work, work .
The hardest part was getting the Jackpot spanner now that party sevens are a thing of the past .
As keeping with the style a old rat can and a P38 . I will have get some esbit to go with this simple stove.
Cheers
Topknot
The hardest part was getting the Jackpot spanner now that party sevens are a thing of the past .
As keeping with the style a old rat can and a P38 . I will have get some esbit to go with this simple stove.
Cheers
Topknot
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Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Topknot, if I could reach you I would hurt you! Far too cunning a competition that, at least for me. I'm betting you're a member of Mensa aren't you? 
it's been bugging me not knowing 
!!!!
What you call a jackpot spanner was known as a Church Key in my neck of the woods (I have no idea why?)
http://www.survivaldepot.co.uk/index.aspx?pageid=474753&prodid=1738214&gs=2
http://www.survivaldepot.co.uk/index.aspx?pageid=474753&prodid=1738214&gs=2
Andy - was that an original compo fruit salad? I thought the days of tins were long past.....or was it from a modern 10 man pack or the like?
Yes Red, it is a original compo fruit salad. I also had to last year two original Nam c rats the ones with the 4 fag's in them but my father bin them.
You are a loony....what kind of madman has old tinned compo rations about?
(If you ever want a tin of matches and sweets.......)
(If you ever want a tin of matches and sweets.......)
I always thought it was a church key 'cause it looked like a church window!
Though Wikipedia differs in their oppinion.
"There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term "church key". The phrase is likely a sarcastic euphemism, as the opener was obviously not designed to access churches. One explanation is in Medieval Europe, most brewers were monks. Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked to protect aging beers, and the monks carried keys to these lagering cellars. It may have been those keys, which remotely resembled the early church key openers, that gave the "church key" opener its name.[SUP][16][/SUP] Another motive for assigning the device such an ironic name could have been the fact beer was first canned (for test marketing) in 1933[SUP][17][/SUP]—the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill.[SUP][18][/SUP] This act, which predated Repeal of Prohibition, amended the Volstead Act, making 3.2% low-alcohol beer legal. Some experts have posited the term "churchkey" was a way to "stick it to" the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place" source Wikipedia.
Back in the day, every case had a 'church key' in it. They were generally the sort here the bottle opener end was a rounded version of the can-opener end.
That was just the conclusion that came to me, haven't seen it put forward anywhere else in the quick bit of research I did on posting. It's just one of those assumptions I'd made years back and never checked before.
