the actual replacement is half out of frame; they gave me a full replacement set. idt they’re used to giving people replacements for broken keys, probably a lot more lost ones. The charge nurse that night was actually like oh thank God you broke it instead of losing it so we don’t have to turn up the whole fucking unit at 2am… and again I can’t describe how much free rent in my head I’m going to be giving to that look on my supervisors face.
Oh so the replacement isnt the little round y-1/m1 blank in the left side of the pic? Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations
Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.
I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.
the actual replacement is half out of frame; they gave me a full replacement set. idt they’re used to giving people replacements for broken keys, probably a lot more lost ones. The charge nurse that night was actually like oh thank God you broke it instead of losing it so we don’t have to turn up the whole fucking unit at 2am… and again I can’t describe how much free rent in my head I’m going to be giving to that look on my supervisors face.
Oh so the replacement isnt the little round y-1/m1 blank in the left side of the pic? Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations
Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.
I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.