I have seen this type of key and lock usually on industrial equipment and I'm wondering if a spare can be cut from a blank. In this case it is on the gas bottle locker of my caravan and I only have one key for it.
The part of the key which fits into the lock is tubular, with protrusions inside the tube to match the lock. It is marked 'Southco' and also bears a number. The lock itself has a matching circular slot, the centre part of which is turned to lock and unlock.
If it's anything like the southco keys used on train station ticket barriers, they can be made from an allen key with a hole drilled down the middle.
Would it be this one by any chance?
snipped-for-privacy@ems-fife.co.uk wrote on 08/10/2008 :
find anything like it on their site. I thought Timco type lock places might be able to perhaps cut one, if I could find a name for the type of lock/key?
Thanks anyway.
Owain laid this down on his screen :
I thought they would be all different and need to be cut to fit the lock, but neither seller mentions that.
Thanks a lot!!!
I like the bit it "very secure and safe" do you think he checks for scrotes that buy a universal key here
I used to have to drill these locks out of Solitaire Payphones when the customer lost their key
You are reading what isn't written.
"Secure" - Doesn't unlock due the vibration of the van whilst being towed. "Safe" - See above, locker stays closed, no danger of gas cylinder bouncing out.
perhaps I needed to concentrate more at school :-) but using the same logic why have a lock and key at all ?
it's like the gas and lecky meter boxes, need to be kept closed so they dont blow open and keep the weather out, but needs to be easily opened, hence the low security key,
it just looks neater than a draw bolt screwed onto the front of the locker i guess.
It is a Bramah type lock, although I would have though most people would recognise the description cylindrical key lock. A true locksmith can probably do one for you, but I'm not sure about simple key cutting places.
Colin Bignell
No just be more cynical and be aware of marketing speak. Both politicians and marketing types are very good at using words in such a double speak manner.
It does keep out the casual opportunist tea leaf.
It's called a "pipe key"
Derek
Gas lockers are only fibreglass. If you're trying to steal the bottles, just break it and save yourself the cost of a key.
It isn't. A Bramah is a tube with radial slots sawn in it. The bitting of the key is controlled by the depth (and rarely the angle) of these slots. There are no protrusions on the tube of a Bramah key, other than a single one just to index it in the keyhole.
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