Weird keys?

[dangerman]

Anyone know what these are for?

[Hoipoloi]

Probably for maintaining equipment in public areas like toilet roll holders, bulkhead lights etc.

[Yorkshire Andy]

The 2 prong keys are called fish keys mk branded used in lots of retail units factories with "slit switches" also same for single prong key from a different manufacturer

[dazthechippy]

beat me to it Andy, my dad had some to test the lights in the sainsburys he managed years ago. thats what he called them too.

if you go in one there are lighting and alarm panels near the store entrance by the news kiosk - look on the wall by the panels and youll see them.

i keep old keys for stuff like this as you just never know right ?

[Yorkshire Andy]

i keep old keys for stuff like this as you just never know right ?

i have one on my key ring....... i can flick emergency lights on with it at work (to test) but also in "public areas" where the shop lights are turned on and off with these i can control them...

[Yorkshire Andy]

Probably for maintaining equipment in public areas like toilet roll holders,

what like this one



the first class tool that designed this wants to be sent out for a "bad" curry and several pints of real ale and the next day visit a very damp garden centre toilet cubical where you pull one sheet and it turns to mush due to the damp dropping the next"smart" sheet of bog roll back inside


HOWEVER the spiderco bug let me manipulate the "fantastic" one pin cylinder lock to open the case to continue wiping my burning backside

[Holomon]

HOWEVER the spiderco bug let me manipulate the "fantastic" one pin cylinder lock to open the case to continue wiping my burning backside

Have to confess around Christmas time to some drunken hijinks with one of these. In a bar in Covent Garden with some friends, I pulled the same trick on the stainless steel cover of the holder in the stall I was in, and left it unlocked and only just propped on there.
One of my mates then went to use the toilet a short time later and apparently as he was walking in there was a loud obscenity and he saw the toilet roll come rolling out from under the stall door.

[Bosworth]

Some of those look like my old window-lock keys.

[dangerman]

Fans you's! I'll have a crack at undoing some toilet roll holders today and see what happens.