What's the oldest / oddest thing you have on your keyring?
What's the oldest / oddest thing you have on your keyring?
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Wacky Racer

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41,363 posts

277 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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As per thread title.

I have a tiny flat pocket keyring screwdriver that was a free gift, stuck with sellotape to the front cover of a copy of "Practical Motorist" I bought in 1968.

RizzoTheRat

28,998 posts

222 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a bottle opener than I got from a police road safety campaign about 10 years ago hehe

phil1979

3,671 posts

245 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Edit: From a fashion crime I committed a long, long time ago.

Cneci

79 posts

141 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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CubanPete

3,812 posts

218 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I had a zip...

It was from the jeans I was wearing when I was ceremoniously debagged on my 21st by my friends. The zipper bit came off in the skuffle, it lasted about 20 years until it finally wore through.

AlexRS2782

8,529 posts

243 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Nothing odd on any of mine but, apart from the original key, for oldest it's the original Warner's Peugeot dealer keyring for my 205 GTI.

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

175 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Oldest thing is the key to my bike U lock (currently attached to the work bike rack with no bike!), the lock was bought around ~1987/88 I think, certainly used it at sixth form to lock up my bike.

Aside from that nothing of note - small LED light with flat batteries, trolley token with a football pattern, electronic fob for the door at work, and several keys.

PositronicRay

29,032 posts

213 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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This keyring was made for me in about 1977 by friend.

Ex BR nickel plated fork, straighten, cut off a tine, stamped, curled and polished. The tine on the far left got burnt off when I ill advisedly poked it into a fire pump I was test running and it shorted out. This would have been around 1990, lost touch so I couldn't get another one made.

He had a sideline turning BR cutlery into slave bangles and stuff, then selling to hippies. Raw materials were free!


coopedup

3,742 posts

169 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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PositronicRay said:



This keyring was made for me in about 1977 by friend.

Ex BR nickel plated fork, straighten, cut off a tine, stamped, curled and polished. The tine on the far left got burnt off when I ill advisedly poked it into a fire pump I was test running and it shorted out. This would have been around 1990, lost touch so I couldn't get another one made.

He had a sideline turning BR cutlery into slave bangles and stuff then selling to hippies. Raw materials were free!
That is brilliant.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

193 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a bottle opener/key ring that dates from 1986 ,bought in Arlanda airport ,Stockholm.

It's a little worse for wear nowadays.

alorotom

12,788 posts

217 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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PositronicRay said:



This keyring was made for me in about 1977 by friend.

Ex BR nickel plated fork, straighten, cut off a tine, stamped, curled and polished. The tine on the far left got burnt off when I ill advisedly poked it into a fire pump I was test running and it shorted out. This would have been around 1990, lost touch so I couldn't get another one made.

He had a sideline turning BR cutlery into slave bangles and stuff, then selling to hippies. Raw materials were free!
I know a jeweller who does this sort of work if interested

FerdiZ28

1,355 posts

164 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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No picture as not sure if it's allowed but I have a tiny pot of ejaculate fashioned from a nanocache container.

Reminds me of my roots.

Timfy

542 posts

149 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a keyring with a picture of my daughter, and a house key on my car key, nothing else.

Bike keys have a ridiculous bunch of things from St Christopher, A Jack Daniels poker chip and the old tallies we used to hand over to draw keys & radio at work.

PositronicRay

29,032 posts

213 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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alorotom said:
PositronicRay said:



This keyring was made for me in about 1977 by friend.

Ex BR nickel plated fork, straighten, cut off a tine, stamped, curled and polished. The tine on the far left got burnt off when I ill advisedly poked it into a fire pump I was test running and it shorted out. This would have been around 1990, lost touch so I couldn't get another one made.

He had a sideline turning BR cutlery into slave bangles and stuff, then selling to hippies. Raw materials were free!
I know a jeweller who does this sort of work if interested
Too much history in this one biggrin

It's been with me everyday for the last 40yrs.

Edited by PositronicRay on Wednesday 27th September 21:02

Buster73

5,625 posts

183 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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3/4 " brass bush with 1/2" internal thread , been on a keyring since 1984

Can't for the life of me remember where it came from or how it ended on the keyring.

Roofless Toothless

7,583 posts

162 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a photograph of a Fender Stratocaster that was used by Jimi Hendrix at a Rock Festival in Miami, before being smashed and burned by him at the end of the show. The bits were given to Frank Zappa by one of Hendrix's roadies, and the instrument was reconstructed and used by Zappa for many live performances through the seventies and eighties.


Butter Face

35,004 posts

190 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a slight odd bit of metal on my keys.



It’s a part of the front panel we had to cut to Fit my Supercharger..



Which was rendered completely pointless soon after when i fitted a front mount intercooler. hehe



I keep it as a reminder that if you’re gonna do something, do it right the first time!

Bristol spark

4,509 posts

213 months

Wednesday 27th September 2017
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I have a electric/gas box key on mine, which I'm told is really weird..


Spunagain

772 posts

288 months

Sunday 1st October 2017
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I bought a basket case Scimitar that my wife and I rebuilt from a guy in the nuclear industry. This tag was on the key ring. He said it was from a Trafalgar class nuclear submarine. I have kept it ever since as it makes me smile.

AlexC1981

5,833 posts

247 months

Sunday 1st October 2017
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I like the reactor compartment door one.

I don't have anything on my keyring as my keys are already bulky enough, but the ring itself is a climbing style mini D-ring that my friend who passed away gave to me. I'll keep that.

I like the look of these key organisers as my keys are always getting in a tangle like one of those metal impossible puzzle games. Not sure if it would work for me as I carry a chubb.