Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

[ThePomqueteer]

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Anyone have any idea what this black Ricoh dimple key is for? More so out of curiosity. Our manager found it in the drawer of a machine quite a while ago. Spent a few minutes trying to find what it could be and the only thing that seems likely is a tray lock like the paperclamp but was looking for something more concrete.

Thanks in advance

[slimslob]

It might help if you had mentioned the model.

[DRichard]

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Anyone have any idea what this black Ricoh dimple key is for? More so out of curiosity. Our manager found it in the drawer of a machine quite a while ago. Spent a few minutes trying to find what it could be and the only thing that seems likely is a tray lock like the paperclamp but was looking for something more concrete.

Thanks in advance

Any chance this user had a machine that used an external, removeable HDD? It may not have been this copier in particular. It might have been elesewhere in the office...(Just guessing.)

[DRichard]

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Anyone have any idea what this black Ricoh dimple key is for? More so out of curiosity. Our manager found it in the drawer of a machine quite a while ago. Spent a few minutes trying to find what it could be and the only thing that seems likely is a tray lock like the paperclamp but was looking for something more concrete.

Thanks in advance

It might have come from a machine sold to medical offices. They had paper trays that locked in case they used blank prescription sheets to be printed from a specific tray.

[ThePomqueteer]

Thanks for the replies folks, unfortunately I don't know what machine it is from, I just figured the Ricoh branding meant it was from a machine, but those suggestions you said seem more likely.

Cheers!

[copyman]

Yea, I have found all kinds of things from other equipment in the copiers storage cabinets, etc. Most of the time with Kon/Min machines there is the user manual, disks, labels and rest has nothing to do with the copier!

[luca72]

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Anyone have any idea what this black Ricoh dimple key is for? More so out of curiosity. Our manager found it in the drawer of a machine quite a while ago. Spent a few minutes trying to find what it could be and the only thing that seems likely is a tray lock like the paperclamp but was looking for something more concrete.

Thanks in advance

looks like the key to a cabinet / cabinet for the office ... I think it is not the copier, probably the machine was placed on a wooden cabinet with the doors and the lock ... is identical to a lot of other keys that I was happened to see in the office furniture

[DRichard]

looks like the key to a cabinet / cabinet for the office ... I think it is not the copier, probably the machine was placed on a wooden cabinet with the doors and the lock ... is identical to a lot of other keys that I was happened to see in the office furniture

But why would the key be branded as a Ricoh product?

[KenB]

I vote for it being the key for a removable HDD.

Removable HDDs are sorta like Bigfoot; we're pretty sure they exist, but nobody can say for sure that they have ever actually seen one.

[Wild Bill]

I say Check drawer. Seen many on HP
's but their MICR Toner... so i may be full of Sheeeooot