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Originally Posted by Chip Chester
Ahoy. Central Ohio as well, here. So, have any payphone keys? I can't open either one of mine...
Chip
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What manufacturer & type of payphones do you have? Are they 3-slot or single slot? It also depends on what part of the phone you need to unlock. As far as I understand it, the coin vaults had unique keys, whereas the upper housings had a common key within a geographical region.
It may turn out that the only way for you to get into the phones is to defeat the locks and replace them with ones which you do have keys for. I know other collectors who have had to do this. You basically have to destroy the lock, but in a surgical manner so that you keep the phone intact.