[Milsurplus] Unknown key cover: real ?

[Meir Ben-Dror WF2U]

Hue,

 

Here is the original TRC-10 key with the base. It should have a leg strap
too, which is removable as you can see on the base. I don't think the key
you have is original as issued with the radio. The cover is also not like
the original in my photos.

 

73,

Meir WF2U

Landrum, SC

 

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:48 PM
To: Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; tetrode at googlegroups.com
Cc: psara_seattle at googlegroups.com
Subject: [Milsurplus] Unknown key cover: real ?

 

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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