[Misc] 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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

It might help if you had mentioned the model.

[DRichard]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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]

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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]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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

[skinnyb]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

It is exactly this. Most likely for a SP 5210 with a dedicated prescription drawer. Have Many of them in the field and a key in my tool kit...

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.

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[jonhiker]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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.

I installed a couple of them on like an Aficio 3035...

[KenB]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

The more I think about it, an HDD lock uses a barrel lock and key, but I'm not sure.

Looks like the winner here is the drawer lock.

I think I saw one of these years ago, but you can see where it would be of value to restrict access to certain blank forms from evil doers, or, from a less cynical perspective, to make sure that sequentially numbered blank forms stay in order.

I guess another reason would be to lock down the supply of normal copier paper, but if that's an issue, you have bigger fish to fry.

[DRichard]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

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.

I've installed about a dozen external HDDs over the years. But those keys looked more like the barrel-types similar to what you would use to open the fronts of vending machines.

[Qball]

Re: Anyone know what this dimple key is for?

Drawer lock seems the most plausible. I was at a bank with a HP that Used drawer locks for the blank bank checks.


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