So THATS what the keys look like!

Rather by accident, I got my first CF28 with keys today. Wow, I've never seen keys like THIS! No wonder nobody has duplicated them!

For those that have not seen them before, the keys have a series of tapered blind holes bored into them, rather than the notches most keys have cut into the side(s). There are holes on both sides, but the pattern looks like a mirror image from one side to the other.

The handle of the key says "TAKIGEN", and right under it is the key's code. This one says "PTC 044". This matches the code on the lock's face.

When I'm over on that side of town, I will take them to Hugo Solomon, who is generally regarded as the best locksmith in Detroit. If they can't do it, it may not be possible. (other than direct from Panasonic)

 

I've got one with keys, and I hope it makes it a selling feature. It's only a 600.

Keys however are slightly useless. The design is to lock both the power switch from working, and to keep the battery panel from opening. You can still pry the panel off, and from there... you get the idea.

Still cool stuff though, and you can't fit them into an 800 because they are missing some cutouts.

 

That doesn't look like it's OEM. Most of the ones I've seen look like variations of the samsonite type luggage keys.

 

Grav - Yeah, I posted on this a while back in my first new thread, "Also starting small". I took my lockset apart figuring to make a key myself...

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Re: Also starting small...
Oooohhh! Those B@stards!

I just got done disassembling my lock cylinder to try and make a key... well, evidently the guys at Pen!sonic decided that a $5,000 laptop was worth the best lockset they could get, so they used a bilateral tumbler type cylinder ( instead of striking the edge of the key like a conventional cylinder lock, whick is reasonably easy to pick and/or smith a new key, the tumblers strike the flats of the key in precision machined grooves. Not only are these nearly impossible to smith in the field, but because the receiving tumblers can be placed in up to 5 different axes, nearly unpickable.

Auggghhhh!

And yes, they DO offer replacements... at 50 bux each... but of course, NOT for my particular lockset.

Double Auggghhhh!

*Kix Pen!sonic squarely in their collective 'nads*

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However, I soon found it didn't matter because as Modly points out, while the lock is nigh unpickable, the case is VERY pickable... and on top of it all, it DOES NOT LOCK THE LID... the main reason I was interested in the lock at all.

mnem
And on the other other hand, I've got toes...