Key Boards

[Simes]

Has anyone come up with any great ideas for saving wall space for key boards?  I have the Davenport Sliding boards but need to try and save more space.  I'm aware that many of the keys on these boards are rarely if ever used so I probably need to update them.

Has anyone made up there own and branded them with there own business?  Any help appreciated.

[Count Muppet]

I think you could probably use the same boards but cover them with vinyl and use stickers for new keys instead of buying complete new boards. Take off all the less used stock and update it with more popular ones

[Simes]

22 minutes ago, Count Muppet said:

I think you could probably use the same boards but cover them with vinyl and use stickers for new keys instead of buying complete new boards. Take off all the less used stock and update it with more popular ones

That's kind of what I was thinking.  I was wondering if this is an expensive thing to get done as I would want the graphics professionally printed, so I wondered if anyone had done it before?

I reckon I could get down to 10 boards easily.  Currently using 13.  However, when you look at Silca or JMA boards they don't have a list of the key blanks.  I can't afford to waste space if half of the keys are not used in my area.  On my Davenport I reckon out of the 400 spaces the maximum I need is 250 spaces (50 of them are keys that are on an extra blank board!  I bought these boards ten years ago with 2 of each on and there are still many spaces with the original two blanks still sitting there!  I work in a mobile unit so space is at a premium!

[Forest Cobbler]

The sliding boards on our Flexam key bench are a bit like metal pegboards because you can move the hooks. We print our own dymo labels with JMA and Silca codes on and have recently started putting them onto thin magnetic squares making them even easier to re-arrange when necessary. 

If you recover your solid boards I wouldn't bother with the graphics, just invest in a decent label machine and print whichever company's codes that you use, then you can easily take off whatever has dropped out of use and replace it with something new.

[eimco]

These are our boards. There Silca boards that are about 15 years old. They have had many colours and refreshed many times. We sand off the old paint and re paint them the colour we want. The green backing is a plastic sheet cut to size. The black backing on the key tags is just heavy black paper from an Art and Hobby shop with a sliver pen to put the ref number on it. We made everything in house apart from the backing. 

[OS Keys]

We don't use boards as found they took up to much space in the worksop.

[St.Am92]

On 10/12/2019 at 9:44 PM, eimco said:

These are our boards. There Silca boards that are about 15 years old. They have had many colours and refreshed many times. We sand off the old paint and re paint them the colour we want. The green backing is a plastic sheet cut to size. The black backing on the key tags is just heavy black paper from an Art and Hobby shop with a sliver pen to put the ref number on it. We made everything in house apart from the backing. 

Looks great!

[eimco]

Thanks very much. 

[GLENGRAVING]

Are we unusual to have keyboards three high? got them from the floor to the ceiling

then our counter with the machines is customer facing 

[hakeemz]

i am same 3 high, facing customer

[Forest Cobbler]

I bet they still ask 'Do you cut keys?'

[hakeemz]