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Re: Engineering binder key



Call your local Snapon Tool or Mac tool representative. They have an
incredible number of bits for speciality fasteners and probably have what
you need on the truck.

At 01:15 PM 5/12/00 -0700, Margaret  Monroe wrote:
>I work in an engineering office, and we still have
>some of the old cloth binders that need a key to
>get the covers off.  I do not have such a key, and
>was told by a co-worker that those have not been
>made for around 30 years.  It looks a bit like an
>old-fashioned roller-skate key, only smaller.  It
>also looks like a very tiny version of the tool people
>use to turn valves in underground pipes.  The key is
>a hollow square inside, about 1/8" across.  The metal
>piece it has to turn in order to get the binder cover off
>looks just like the end of an Allen wrench, except that
>it is square, and not hexagonal.  It is recessed in the
>end of the binder.
>
>I need one of those keys, so people can get binder
>covers off & remove pages when they need to, in order
>to copy reduced drawings.  Does anyone know where
>I can get one?
>
>I will look on Ebay, but I do not expect that to work.
>
>I look forward to your replies!
>
>Margaret Monroe
>
>Office Tech (Typing)
>California Department of Transportation
>District 4
>Division of Structures Maintenance & Investigations, Toll Bridges (North)
>Room 10-400
>P. O. Box 23660
>Oakland, CA  94623-0660
>
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