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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Betsy Whitney wrote: > Oh my grandma had some of those! > Betsy > At 05:42 AM 2/24/2009, you wrote: > >> Lee, >> >> Not all of us are your age. >> smiling >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Lee A. Stone >> To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:34 >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] door nob question >> >> some of you in your travels must have seen old locks like in one of my >> first houses the locks were I think like a 4 inch or maybe 3 inch >> square block. and If I remember correctly there was a little piece of >> metal stuck up so you could flip it from lock to unlock and that >> actualy took a skeleton key. then there were the door locks per se >> which was simply a flat piece of metal that lay in a grove until the >> outer handle was turned.. the later one was on my first house which had >> double doors and at the bottom of one door was a place where you >> fliped up a metal piece thus allowing two or both doors to swing wide >> open. and that door had the old fashioned hand crank or turn knob on >> the outside which when turned would knock anyone out of bed. Lee >> >> -- >> Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. >> Are you curious? Visit my web site: >> <http://www.sedac.mailsent.net>http://www.sedac.mailsent.net >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
