An intricate Weiser blank problem

[Growster]

A while ago a hospital approached us for copies of their Weiser masterkey.

 

Weiser withdrew from the UK a few years ago, and their remaining local agents (Till&Whitehead, and Aldridges) were unable to locate the records, nor any blanks for this particular suite.

 

As the keys aren't copy-protected, Craig easie-entried 10 blanks for us. After a year, they are all coming back, bent and broken, because they weren't steel blanks.

 

So we took a WEI9 (Silca) blank and filed down the middle ridge and managed to get a working key. That was a lot of work, and the result looks too wonky, really, even though it works.

 

Then we chatted to Weiser in the US, who insisted that all their locks work on a WR1 blank - which seems unlikely.

 

What should we do?

[Lee]

push their blank in some cuttlefish & then see if the wr1 passes

 

Lee

[Mick Friend]

wot he said - We do have a couple of yanks on the PLF I could earhole them but a cuttlefish or decent picture would be good for them to have a track for you

Mick