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What is it? Set 477
In January, we were looking at this item in set 477:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...15/pic2775.jpg which shows a valve key for turning off a water supply. And Alexander Thesoso wrote: In the 1964 Burt Lancaster movie, "The Train", he uses a tool exactly like this to undo the track fastening bolts on a WWII french railroad line. And I (Mark Brader) wrote: I'm going from memory here, but I say not exactly. In the movie, the bolts in the track have hexagonal heads, and the business end of the tool is like the socket you'd find on a socket wrech. Having now seen the scene again, I was almost right. The tool that Labiche (Burt Lancaster) uses does have a socket like a socket wrench. But the heads of the track bolts aren't hexagonal; they're square. But because they're square, a tool like the valve key, bearing on only two sides of the head, would also work. And there's another scene where we see the bolts being turned -- that's a little earlier, where Labiche blows up a bit of track and the Germans patch it by moving a rail from behind the train. And the tool *they* use does have a head something like the valve key. (I picked exactly the wrong moment to walk away from the TV and locate the image from set 477, so i can't say if it was exactly the same, but it certainly was something like it.) Now you know. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Men! Give them enough rope and they'll dig | their own grave." -- EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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