Do it yourself

Peggy: If you could turn back the clock to around 1940, you would probably be able to pick up a radiator key at any well supplied hardware store. But like myself, radiators and their associated keys have gone out of style. It's not that we are not still in use its just that we're not as well thought of as in our younger years. I went all over the area looking for the one I have, and then a neighbor lady for whom I was trying to get the air out her heating system, came walking up out of the basement one day holding two of them and wanted to know if I might know what they were for as she had found them hanging on a nail by the furnace. I didn't know whether to kill or kiss her, but opted to do neither as her husband was a minister and bigger then myself. I did snatch up one of them and it resides as a permanent resident on my key ring. I told he that seeing as how she didn't know what it was, I could not be sure that she would remember where she had put it, so to protect her from herself I would keep one of them. So far it has worked. In short I guess you will have to start a search in your area, beginning with all the nails around the boiler. I'm sending you a picture of the one I keep on my key ring so that you can show it to those you might be asking to sell you one. I'd start with some of the older established heating contractors in your area, though as I found out this is no guarantee. I found one place about 60 miles from here that claimed they had thrown a whole can full of them away as they didn't know what they might have ever been needed for. The urge to kill and rid the world of stupidity almost overcame me at that instant, and no my dear, while I think you are a lovely and wonderful young lady, you can't have mine. I hate to be that way, but then again I can blame it on my advanced years. Dale in the Flat Lands