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Date Posted: - Tuesday - 03/ 2/10 - 1:58pm
Author: Randall, Murre, M31
Subject: I have contacts in Tokyo too
In reply to: Jared Kibele 's message, "Has anyone heard from Dan?" on - Monday - 03/ 1/10 - 1:12pm


My company has a Tokyo office and I'm fairly close with a couple of the people there whose English is good and Japanese, native.

If our task for them was a simple one and not too time consuming, I'd be happy to ask for their assistance.

RR

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[> [> [> Progress -- Jared Kibele, - Monday - 03/15/10 - 12:13am

Oh man. This is a never ending quest. Here's what I got back from my friend in Tokyo:

"I got the answer I was expecting, they won't sell blanks for security reasons. They did say they would cut you one and send that to us. They said they knew what the cut would be, crazy. It's about $10 per key. Do you want to try one?"


Here's what I sent in reply:

"Hmm. I had intended to get 4 for me and 4 for a couple of other people that also have Mariners. I definitely want four of them for me and if they're already cut for my lock, that's even better. Do you know how they know how to cut the key? If all Mariners had the same key, then I'd like 8 of them. If they know from the number on the lock (visible in one of the pictures of the lock), then I'd like 4 for me and I'll tell the others to send the numbers from their locks. If they know because of the picture of the key, then we have a problem because that's not my key. I don't have a key at all. That's a picture of someone else's key.

Sorry this is such a pain in the butt. It's really weird that they won't sell blanks. You can walk into any hardware store here and buy all kinds key blanks for houses and cars and all kinds of stuff. Besides, you can't open anything with a key blank. I went to a locksmith here in SB and they said that if I could get key blanks, they could cut them to work with my lock.

Anyway, thanks again. Please let me know what the deal is with how they determined how to cut the key and hopefully we can get this resolved."


So that's the saga so far. I'll let you know when there are further developments.

-Jared


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[> [> [> [> Update... -- Randall, - Monday - 03/15/10 - 1:46pm

Hey Jared,

Thanks for the update. I'd still like one or two and am happy to pay the "upcharge". :)

I only have one key, however, and am not willing to send it to Japan as a pattern. Hope they can use the number.

Thanks again,

RR


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[> [> [> [> [> the aftermarket keys i got are called fuki not hori. -- dan, - Monday - 03/22/10 - 7:45pm

check that out


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[> [> [> [> [> [> Cabin Keys -- Doug Wilson, - Wednesday - 05/12/10 - 9:30pm

In cleaning up the boat, I found the spare key.
Ace Hardware, stamped SC1, and Taiwan.
Maybe made at a Japanese "Ace Hardware"?


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