14 Feb
2017
14 Feb
'17
10:40 a.m.
Hello Fred,
Thank you for the post.
This is really a chicken vs egg issue here.
Apparently, no one right now has a copy of this key.
No one seems to even have a picture of the key.
There have been a couple of pictures + eBay sales shared that show, what I would
call newer keys. I label them newer keys because the keys shown have a purple
plastic surround molded on to them.
Does that mean they won't work? I don't know. The 1000e is a 1992 vintage box.
If I recall correctly, Sun's purple era was early 2000's.
Someone out there has a spare of the key I need. I feel confident that
ultimately it will turn up sooner or later.
Jerry
On 02/14/17 10:50 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Maybe someone
with a key and a set of callipers can match up a blank at
Home Depot and measure it up :P
NO.
Try a LOCKSMITH.
Home Depot does not have a selection of keys. They have some car keys, some
padlock keys (that MIGHT match), and TWO house keys (Schlage SC1 and Kwikset
KW1, although they have more than a hundred different novelty heads on those)
They are no good, if you want the third, fourth, or fifth most common housekey!
Take a key to a locksmith and get a copy, to peddle to one of those seeking that
key. Even if your locksmith is so curmudgeonly that he won't tell you anything,
Note the numbers stamped on the blank. It is trivially easy to measure the
depths of the cuts, and with the "depth and spacing" standards for that blank,
you can guess them from the picture.
We had no difficulty on this list decoding the DEC XX2247 key.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com