[Milsurplus] Unknown key cover: real ?

[Hubert Miller]

I have a vague memory it seems of some discussion online of this key being offered on Ebay.

Well, anyway, it reappeared recently and I bought it. I wanted it to sort - of replicate the key

for a TRC-10 radio I have.



I think at the time we discussed this, there was speculation as to what it was possibly removed from,

with that odd shaped triangular base. Well, the answer is more mundane, I think. The "base" is pegboard

material, not metal. I surmise a previous owner used just this odd piece for a key hold down while using it.



The cover puzzles me a lot. It is a friction fit. The cover front has a vertical slot in it, clearly not added by

any hobbyist, that the key lever fits through and extends out the front. But at least one of the holes in

back is hobbyist done. Its edges show bare metal - the rest of the cover is thoroughly, professionally

wrinkle painted - and the hobbyist probably quickly learned that he could not fit the key's cord out

through this hole; there is not enough clearance from the back of the key to the cover. So I wonder if

the original cord exit was down through the edge of the oval shaped key base and the rectangular cover.

Maybe the whole cover was a "found item" that just happened to fit tight on the key?  But then, how to

account for the slot perfectly positioned for the key lever to protrude out of the cover? Your wisdom

on this?

-Hue Miller



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