extended rim lock key.

[Lee]

thought i'd show you this!

 

My customer wanted an extended Rim lock key. There wasn't one to suit in my catalogues so I made one.

 

first i used two blanks & cut the opposite ends off

 

next I did a step in the cut to add strength when welding & it makes it easier to line up.

 

then I "V"d the joints to allow the welds to be cleaned up afterwards.

 

I took it home & welded it together before bringing it back to work the next day to grind & wet & dry smooth.

 

Next up masked & ready for painting, since these are plated steel it would have gone rusty without.

 

Finished key............. Customers ordered 2 more.

 

you don't get that sort of service in a heel bar do you!

 

Lee

[Mark Davis]

What did you use to weld it?

[Lee]

mig welder

[Kris Polan]

Nice job. I recommend making two pieces - one for the supply of blank ... With a small cost of time and money. Then it is easier, faster ... and the customer happy.

K.

[Lee]

With a small cost of time and money.

I ain't embarrassed about profit. He didn't pay me small he paided me handsomely to do a job out of hours. it was a pound for doing the job and a fair sum for knowing how to do the job.

 

He'd already been to a few places before he heard about me. He'd already fitted a door for his customer & his customer had insisted on the original lock. he'd done the work before he realised he couldn't get keys for it. he was truly up a creak without a paddle & he paid a price that we where both happy with.

 

Lee

[x minit uk]

Lee, I won shoe repairer of the year whilst working in a 'heel bar' before you knew how to tie laces. And in those days you had to pass a mystery shopper report to qualify which included giving outstanding service.

So not so quick on the heel bar criticism please.

 

Apart from that well done on a good job.

[Lee]

Lee, I won shoe repairer of the year whilst working in a 'heel bar' before you knew how to tie laces. And in those days you had to pass a mystery shopper report to qualify which included giving outstanding service.

So not so quick on the heel bar criticism please.

 

Apart from that well done on a good job.

 

I bet you could walk into a 1000 shoe repairers / heel bars in the UK & only find 1 or 2 who could extend or would be bothered to extend a Rim lock key, it wasn't a criticisum of Mr Minit or anyone who worked in them. I was more thinking of "you wouldn't get that anywhere else locally" sorry if it offended!

[x minit uk]

Lee, I won shoe repairer of the year whilst working in a 'heel bar' before you knew how to tie laces. And in those days you had to pass a mystery shopper report to qualify which included giving outstanding service.

So not so quick on the heel bar criticism please.

 

Apart from that well done on a good job.

 

I bet you could walk into a 1000 shoe repairers / heel bars in the UK & only find 1 or 2 who could extend or would be bothered to extend a Rim lock key, it wasn't a criticisum of Mr Minit or anyone who worked in them. I was more thinking of "you wouldn't get that anywhere else locally" sorry if it offended!

 

that's ok, no offence taken. You are right though there aren't many would take the job on. I was just in a bad mood last night.

[Auto Key Wizard]

That's gotta be one thick door!!

[Lee]

you wouldn't want it danging on your car keys would you!