[Shop-talk] church keys

[Doug Braun]

Has anyone ever seen a church-key beer opener
available in stainless steel?  I have a couple of the
ones with crappy chrome-plating, and they always start
rusting after a while...

Doug


--- Wayne <wmc_st at xxiii.com> wrote:

> Yeah!  I was just thinking that.  Actually have one
> in the desk drawer 
> here at the computer for just such a purpose. 
> Simplistic die-stamped 
> metal with a crappy chroming.  "International
> Breweries, Inc." with some 
> brews named "Frankenmuth" "Old Dutch" and others. 
> Them internets 
> suggest IBI went out of biz in 1966 or 67, so it's
> gotta be older then 
> me, but I'd already figured that.  I think Dad used
> to open oil 
> containers with it back when it came in cans.
> 
> Looks like you can still procure them on Ebay, if
> someone swiped yours.