Lapcabby & Tabcabby Side Doors - Secure them?

[InterwebsGuy]

Hi All

If you have any Lap/tabcabby trolleys in your school, have you ever tried to lock the side access doors where the power cables go in to? If so how?

I'm absolutely fed up of having to chase missing power supplies for laptops and tablets that staff remove and never put back.

 

I've always been surprised that they don't come with a locking mechanism for the side doors, as I can't imagine many places want staff or students interfering with the power cables and chargers.

[Gurtlush]

if they have the small gold lever? we drill a small hole in it and put a Torx head screw through into the wood (Torx screw purchased on ebay). so far we've never had one removed. Edited May 22, 2018 by Gurtlush

[LeMarchand]

Not used those brands, but I always cable tie power supplies where possible, preferably somewhere they'd find it a lot of effort to get a knife or pair of scissors to.

[InterwebsGuy]

if they have the small gold lever? we drill a small hole in it and put a Torx head screw through into the wood (Torx screw purchased on ebay). so far we've never had one removed.

 

Those are the ones, yes. Would you drill through the lever, or just put a screw somewhere around the lever to stop it moving? That's an interesting idea, however.

[InterwebsGuy]

Not used those brands, but I always cable tie power supplies where possible, preferably somewhere they'd find it a lot of effort to get a knife or pair of scissors to.

I'd considered this but it does involve making a hole somewhere in the holder trays to tie wrap them to.

 

It's a shame we have to go to such lengths, why can't they just leave them in place?

[LeMarchand]

I'd considered this but it does involve making a hole somewhere in the holder trays to tie wrap them to.

 

It's a shame we have to go to such lengths, why can't they just leave them in place?

 

Ah! Not familiar with the brands; I can see why you wouldn't want to do that.

 

As I'm in Primary, most of our "pilferage" is from staff who want to permanently keep a tablet in their room or (with laptop trolleys) have either forgotten their own charger or have decided that they want one for home and one for school.

[InterwebsGuy]

Ah! Not familiar with the brands; I can see why you wouldn't want to do that.

 

As I'm in Primary, most of our "pilferage" is from staff who want to permanently keep a tablet in their room or (with laptop trolleys) have either forgotten their own charger or have decided that they want one for home and one for school.

This is exactly why we are trying to address it - it seems to happen in both primary and secondary for us.

They are the first to moan though when they get a device out of the trolley and it's not charged up!

[Steve21]

We don't use them anymore, but we just had lots of cable ties. Depends which model you got but normally it's either cable ties on the trays if they're ones with the metal arms, or cable ties on the "pockets" that hold the charger as they have those ventilation slits etc.

 

Which ones is it you have? Can have a nosy and see if I remember where we used to do it

 

Steve

[InterwebsGuy]

We don't use them anymore, but we just had lots of cable ties. Depends which model you got but normally it's either cable ties on the trays if they're ones with the metal arms, or cable ties on the "pockets" that hold the charger as they have those ventilation slits etc.

 

Which ones is it you have? Can have a nosy and see if I remember where we used to do it

 

Steve

 

We've got these ones, they have metal arms and the little pockets to hold the charger. I've never noticed ventilation slits but I'll have a look for them.

The tablet ones are slightly different, that may need a bit more thought about where they could be tied to.

[Steve21]

Ah that's different layout, the ones we had were like these:

 

 

So could put it through those slits

 

Steve

[InterwebsGuy]

Ah that's different layout, the ones we had were like these:

 

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So could put it through those slits

 

Steve

 

Oh well, thank you anyway.

I actually prefer the look of those.