Do you still have a 2135 key on your keyring?

[pdtek]

Just wondering how many on here still even have a 2135 key.

 

[mc48]

Still have some in my toolbox, 2252 also.

 

[nikronzo]

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who has worked in LMR for the last 30 years that doesnt have a 2135 on them. Yes, even the hams too...

 

[KevinC]

But do you still carry a RCA key? Or a Kokusai key?

 

[dickie757]

I have a collection through the various style changes. If anyone wants to offer up any vintage keys to add to my collection, I'll send a SASE.

And yes, on my keyring, right next to my 1-1

 

[nhfdcadet]

Still have one and use it regularly, lots of cabinets with that lock on them

 

[ElroyJetson]

Still used on an APX mobile radio for the mounting bracket. At work I've got a bin of about a hundred 2135 keys. But none on my own keyring.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

I have a special key ring for site and cabinet keys. I probably still have keys to Sears (Willis) Tower roof access on that ring. I have a few other 2135 keys stuck in drawer units and elsewhere. Can't be locked out of the radio works.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Still used on an APX mobile radio for the mounting bracket. At work I've got a bin of about a hundred 2135 keys. But none on my own keyring.

I sold a few for about $9 each shipped airmail. There is demand. Someone was reaching out for a bunch recently for a fleet pile of radio brackets.

 

[WB5UOM]

Ive got keys Ive had for 40 years...
I am talking large ring of keys...
2135 gets used as much as Mr GE what ..3150?

 

[kayn1n32008]

I have one on my key ring. Got to use it fairly recently at the clubs site. Someone had a 100w MSR2000 cabinet sittting in front of a rack, labeled as the back up for our 100w MSR2000 primary repeater... Even though we have a plethora of modern, 100w repeaters, not doing anything. 🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🙄🙄🙄

Some people are still stuck in the 80's and think if it isn't crystal controlled, it's modern junk, that doesn't have a good front end. Thankfully those people are no longer the decision makers. These same people retired when that was the most modern station they had worked on.

 

[RodStrong]

One on my keys that I carry every day. One in my work truck. And 3 backups on a key ring in my desk, standing by in an ever state of readiness.

 

[ff026]

I threw out about 200 of them a few years ago. Years worth of them.

 

[ElroyJetson]

I do have one on my ring of seldom used keys. I carried it for so long, it was nickel plated and the plating wore off it down to the brass on the flat surfaces.

 

[k9wkj]

a 2135 and a GE key

 

[N9JIG]

I still have my GE keys, including a BF-10A for the Mastr-2 cabinets as well as the 2135 and 2558 Motorola keys.

 

[mmckenna]

I agree, I think anyone who's worked in the industry for more than a short time has one.
I've got a bunch in a drawer. And a ring in the truck with all kinds of other weird keys.
But I think I've only got one or two cabinets left that actually use them.

 

[ElroyJetson]

Remember MOT1 keys and Medeco high security keys for Physical Security Housings? (Original Systems 90 Syntor in my case.)

 

[wa8pyr]

I've still got 2135, 2252, 2558 and a couple GE BF-10A keys, too. I'm retired, but you just never know when you might need them....

 

[KK4JUG]

I remember an upright Amana freezer we had in the 70s that used the 2135 key. I s'pose the lock was for those folks who had the freezer in an outbuilding.